I do a research
On mass psychology.
Where shall I begin?
I know not.
Where shall I end?
Not beyond a monkey-
Bitten by a scorpion,
Drunken and lunatic
To be so sure!
... – by Ravi Panamanna | 7 Views added 3 months ago
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With a couple of utensils,
A bundle of things, a sack,
A rusty box, a broken cradle,
And in sunken dreams,
With a couple of kids
In rugged clothes,
In cadaver conditions,
I saw a family at the station.
Where were they going?
Where was... – by Ravi Panamanna | 7 Views added 3 months ago
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After serving our frontiers-
Braving the seasons,
Braving the weather,
Waging a battle,
He returns home-
With an iron box of dreams,
The warts of wars,
A cartload of memories.
The gales are now over
But life is not yet over.
... – by Ravi Panamanna | 8 Views added 3 months ago
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Prices go up
Our life goes down.
Salaries go up
But our hearts go down.
Lifestyle has gone up
But our moral side has gone down.
Hatred is on the increase
Kindness is on the decrease.
Thus, we cruise along,
We are searching for a shore.... – by Ravi Panamanna | 3 Views added 3 months ago
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The night was falling in
Birds folded their wings.
Upon the Irish hills
Winter was thickly crystallizing.
Upon the singular, frozen lane
Stars cast a beckoning glance.
The travelers are now gone
And the pathway lay forlorn.
From a corner... – by Ravi Panamanna | 3 Views added 3 months ago
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From the moments of her ecstasy
Our springs are born.
In the garden of her love
Our life is a boon.
And unto our sweet dreams
She is a silent witness.
And to our twittering wings
She is a caring wind.
In the power of her silent prayers
... – by Ravi Panamanna | 8 Views added 4 months ago
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Once a lion, a bullfighter,
An alcoholic, boorish oftentimes.
A flirt, an outspoken character,
An adventurer, an unbridled horse.
Undoubtedly a prolific producer
A master craftsman of words,
A gifted writer, to his credit
Many accolades... – by Ravi Panamanna | 3 Views added 4 months ago
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She wept, the mother,
The daughter's marriage was a hybrid.
By the current levels
No more than a sudden pinprick!
Yet she wept, the mother,
The sudden sweep she couldn't bear.
From under her feet
Sands eroded in a fleet.
She wept,... – by Ravi Panamanna | 4 Views added 4 months ago
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With a heart profound,
With memories lush and evergreen,
A bird leaves a forest glade
In the force of life and winds.
From the vales familiar and beautiful,
From the horizons long possessed,
She is leaving the dale of dearest visions
In... – by Ravi Panamanna | 3 Views added 4 months ago
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In this graveyard
Where ceases not fire,
Where ceases not lamentations,
I am for eons a silent witness.
Lone I stand on these rolling slopes,
Green fields lie beyond the silent road.
A distant whistle is heard
And I know the last train... – by Ravi Panamanna | 6 Views added 4 months ago
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A twinkling star glided unto me
Like thy enchanted look.
A flood of moonlight
Swept over me
Like thy enchanted kiss.
A wave of melody filled my heart
Like thy honey sweet voice.
A wave of solitude
Disappeared from my life
As Thee began... – by Ravi Panamanna | 6 Views added 4 months ago
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It seemed like an upturned boat,
A school of fish swarmed around it.
Tossed by the surging waves
They were in no travail.
Moments eclipsed in gentle ticks.
In seconds the scenario altered,
The 'capsized boat' shot a sheet of water.
Fishes... – by Ravi Panamanna | 3 Views added 4 months ago
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Soil popped into life,
Out of it crawled a worm.
It peeped all around,
Winds belled a chime.
While enjoying life thus,
A fly spotted him out.
It was a sumptuous meal,
The fly fluttered around.
The flight soon ended,
A frog leaped on it.... – by Ravi Panamanna | 6 Views added 4 months ago
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Ploughmen homeward return
Boatswain makes his last call.
Travelers leave the trail
Lanterns throw a light pale.
Moonlight swiftly glides
Singular chirp remains.
Footsteps presently recede,
Stars soliloquize.
Upon the hills
Clouds... – by Ravi Panamanna | 3 Views added 4 months ago
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Hamlet and her quietness,
A temple and her serenity,
The fields and her windy meads
And a banyan tree centuries old.
Her sprawling foliage,
A passing life's secured roof.
Before their flight unto the slumbering hills
Winds take here a... – by Ravi Panamanna | 5 Views added 4 months ago
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Unto the western skies
She is making her morning flight.
Unto the waters of life
She is opening out her wings.
Thro' the thickness of the morning mist,
It is all a lonesome flight.
Upon her wings and throbbing chest
She carries the call of... – by Ravi Panamanna | 4 Views added 4 months ago
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A happily married couple
Young IT professionals
Handsome salaries
Life is an endless tweet.
A beautiful morn’
Breakfast hour
The usual chirps
Soft and casual winds
Something triggered amidst
Gales began to gather
Volcanoes sprang alive... – by Ravi Panamanna | 32 Views added 4 months ago
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At night, from the Observation Deck
The city is but a diamond necklace.
In every direction, across every inch,
Her vision is entreatingly envious,
She is indeed a lass, My Fair Lady!
Look there! Her Statue of Liberty spires,
See yonder! The... – by Ravi Panamanna | 18 Views added 4 months ago
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As he locked the door
Of their Berlin home
And descended the steps,
To his wife, Einstein said:
'Take a very good look at it,
You will never see it again'.
The writing was on the wall
Fumes were in the air.
In his travel diary, he... – by Ravi Panamanna | 6 Views added 4 months ago
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Upon these dales
We were one feather,
On a long flight being together,
In search of grains of life.
Upon these branches
We were one long chirp,
One melodious song is a harp,
In search of fountains of life.
The streams yonder,
The... – by Ravi Panamanna | 12 Views added 4 months ago
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Come and sit a spell,
Take a gentle pause.
Enjoy the bard
The melodious bird
Life boils less hard.
Close your eyes,
Ice your piquant thoughts.
Feel the wind
Feel the waft
Life floats swiftly.
A child in you peeps,
Altruism unveils... – by Ravi Panamanna | 9 Views added 4 months ago
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Rolling tears tell his pain
But all ended in vain.
The world indifferently air:
"Lose not thy courage, just bear,
The Lord will certainly take care"!
When pain is pounding every cell,
Such a rigmarole, can it console?
Be silent, just a... – by Ravi Panamanna | 5 Views added 4 months ago
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I am a vote-
I shatter your dreams,
Offer your opponent an ice- cream.
I am somebody’s tragedy
But, your opponent’s victory.
I am a vote-
I am much valued,
I am much sought after.
I pull down your legs
I can lift you on the wings.
I am... – by Ravi Panamanna | 5 Views added 4 months ago
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This is an ancient house
whose walls are chiefly brown.
The building blocks are bones
The windows – the sensory organs
The pipes are the vessels,
The waters being the blood;
The pump house is a marvellous device
That works for decades... – by Ravi Panamanna | 10 Views added 4 months ago
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I remember the day
He was born.
It was in the morn
That he came on a sojourn
On a rainy day in June.
I remember the day
He forever closed his little eyes.
It was twilight,
The stars twinkled in silence,
A candle was burning.
Thus, his... – by Ravi Panamanna | 6 Views added 4 months ago
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It was my final wish
To be eternally lingering in the winds of Dublin.
It was an inner drive,
The dales of my pearlescent days were compelling.
For long, several years
I was breathing the air of the Thames.
For decades six and more
I... – by Ravi Panamanna | 15 Views added 4 months ago
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I am writing umpteen verses
And my lass dances in grace.
I am glancing at the twinkling stars
And they whisper all our secret themes.
On endless beauty doth I meditate
And I am within thy supple figure.
I am scanning the distant blues
And... – by Ravi Panamanna | 9 Views added 4 months ago
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Thee, a sleeping beauty –
across the blues
and over the endless dales,
Mountains and on the lap of gentle winds!
Night!
Thee, a soulful song –
of the forest nightingale,
across the slumbering hills
and over the *Nila’s silent whirls.
... – by Ravi Panamanna | 12 Views added 4 months ago
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Beyond the endless waters
It is all a passing wind.
Beyond the calls of ferry
It is all a passing voice.
Feeling for the winds of yore
The old man glanced at the fabulous river.
Sitting under the shades
He screwed up his long beard in... – by Ravi Panamanna | 10 Views added 4 months ago
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