Dark clouds are smouldering into red
While down the craters morning burns.
The dying soldier shifts his head
To watch the glory that returns;
...
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
...
I
All night, through the eternity of night,
Pain was my potion though I could not feel.
...
No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not
Invariably think the newer way Prosaic
mad, inelegant, or what not.
...
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
...
Alone, alone, alone
I was all alone
I was alone in my mother’s womb
I will be alone in my grave beneath the tomb
...
How do you enter that Manila
frame of mind, that woven
mat of noodle house restaurants,
...
Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,
Whose head upon my knee to-night
Rests for a while, as if grown light
...
I am a rain drop flopped down from the clouds
I could have landed in a river or the sea
Then merging with the rising and receding tides
I would have been washed down into oblivion
...
The road comes from somewhere
And goes straight somewhere else
Caring not the Chautari* that awaits him,
Goes past, leaving her
...
Once on a time from all the Circles seven
Between the steadfast Earth and rolling Heaven
The Birds, of all Note, Plumage, and Degree,
...
Sudden cut off of power,
This has brought up darkness,
While moving ahead,
A person gets jerk in wall,
...
Him whom I could not then love much
Why do I now remember thus at this late
hour, a Mother?
Today I remember every night he lulled
...
I have never read in any news paper
I have never viewed in any TV Channel
a female beast has been raped
or the female beast is dead
...
bounty body blushing
heaving hoisted hankering
under tainted touch
callous harmattan clutched
...
weary waves whooshing
hoisted horizons hankering
dark dances drooling
felon fate fostering
...
C O N G R A T S U R 474 ON TOP OF 500 PH POETS
AS I SAID ONE DAY YOU WILL BE
INDIA'S TAGORE NO 2
...
I see your thoughtful posture
I see you disturbed a wee bit
I see words in the tip off tongue….
I see your refrain from speaking your heart……
...
- - My stella - - 48
Save me with thy love
Verily deep is the sorrow of life,
...
Golden were olden days
When letter was the only means.
Thousands of stories word said
...
I am a roamer, hoping from tree to tree,
Morning to evening, with friends, all glea;
Fruits and nuts at our beaktip, no need to plea,
Rivers and lanes all below, no worries, care free.
...
Yama begins his sermons:
"Human beings have two alternatives before them.
The ‘Shreyas' and ‘Preyas'!
‘Shreyas' is seeking a noble and a good end,
...
In the
Run after of craving….
Following of yearning….
Betrayal of wishing…..
...
THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for raw meat ... and the hot lapping of blood-I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
...
subtle; rather muffled is the rustle
when hungering begging fingers
slide underneath haughty parting ones
...
I have to make a long voyage
to wander through the sky lane
under the pavement of Galaxy
I have to reach the firmament
...
Animals are there,
See, my dear,
And they are hankering
After pleasure.
...
Rabbit Ears
The ears are too long,
Creature of under ground water,
A being of hypocritical attitude,
...

India, my beloved Motherland,
A richly endowed, vast
...
well well well
let me see here
if my comments gets
you all clear
...
One day I appeared on this earth
With my body and a mind.
But that also I realized to be created
By someone other than me.
...
Love the self first
and then only say
I love you and then
You may say
...
He was alive if breathing be called life,
Peaceful and blissful with no surface strife,
To me, he was suffering for far long,
The man I knew— a man of self-esteem
...
They made a splash from the first
As you might have guessed,
Took off, as if to water,
With their usual sort of zest,
...
Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs,
Their naked dances with man's spirit naked
By the root side of the tree of life
The under side of things
...
Where fantasy meets reality,
parallels do meet,
the plethora of mind
conquering defeat,
...
What is future who knows
and yet we are thinking
so many things for future,
We hope our future safe.
...
nothing is indispensable to be a poet
wealth not, no sleeping with opposite
no travelling, triggering not
poet only needs a heart
...
Pranab k c
08/2011
The valley never gets free from its glory
...
graveyard beside dust I left after passing the narrow path to cross the barren field of stag memories.
wholesaler of hankies different color and sizes packing the orders just beside the shadow I left to observe heartless hankering to hold a piece of shaped cloth just to wash immediately causeless unrest.
...
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
...
See now, all things perverted,
Intellect enveloped in darkness.
All are hankering after
mundane pleasures.
...
Hankering for you,
As I know, you are
The truth of all truths.
...
Two sons, one lived across the continents,
One, visits her rarer than a Blue Moon—
With guilt-edged gifts to soothe rustled up guilt,
Or perhaps quid pro for their lack of time;
...
Religion if has too little to sell
To a man that but by spirit is driven,
Here's him, who, nor with hate runs from a hell,
Nor yet has heart hankering for vague heaven.
...
In the delightful fair ground
I could hear every sound,
Every inch of it was busy,
The sunday evening was truly crazy.
...
Ours was a family of five
With my father being in army
And my mother, the nightingale.
...
A beautiful little angel
Walked into my life full
Filling with her gentle fragrance
As her stuttering coos allure
...
A little puppy
Crying and hankering for milk
A naked misery
Lamenting and beseeching for mercy
...
Oh my Hangry-mind
Stop yearning for all things you desire
And not owning making you angry
Change this Hangry habit, my friend
...
The golden tinge of the shy sun
Peeked onto her pinkness
The youthful night was full of fun
Leaving residues on her face!
...
'Tis the sweetest thing I know
'Tis sweeter than aged wine
'Tis like a morning dew
Making the plants alive
...
Alone in the desert
Left alone with my thoughts
My heart aches in a disquietude manner
Your face keep appearing like a banner
...
observation hankering an exclusive
brochure to catch imprinted ableism
on its muddy face digged under
double-standard of passing-life manifesto
...
Of all the things that happened in Noah's Ark,
The strangest ever was when the monkey lied to Prophet Noah
One day he climbed onto the roof of the Ark,
And felt a hankering after some mischievous antics
...
Offer not,
Offer not anything
I am not hankering.
I want you
...
My love of her to raging fever turned,
I still longed to embrace her for raw frill,
Hoped, she'd cool down, in self-lit fire get burned
In passion of her own, venom evil;
...
I am single
Without refuting you
I am expressing my view.
...
No one can block my road
That I know.
And so, I am wandering
freely here there
...
Where is the harm in looking?
Beauty is a delicate blessing.
As baking is all in the cooking,
and in us, constantly tasting.
...
I see you and my heart suffuses with love for you.
The sparkle of love overshadows the deceitful glitter of wealth;
Filling my hungering heart with treasures in every pore.
...
Can’t find a word,
To express,
What I feel today.
To say anything,
...
Towel towel, big towel or small towel it is towel,
It is for the people of the people and by the people.
So give all a towel, fitting towel to the hankering to heal
...
Spring has approached
I've been longing at the sweet aroma
After the first rain
Awaiting at amends on trees
...
Full thirty years of wedded bliss,
My darling wife, we have enjoyed;
And still I can with rapture kiss
Thy sweet, chaste lips-for I am void
...
With only one wing
To the farthest of dreams
A crestfallen longing to appease
I travelled
...
Every night I wait for you,
The smile in your eyes,
Your gentle and gradual wink,
Piercing into each part of my being,
...
The cause of my sorrow
Is my selfishness.
The cause of my sorrow
Is my own thinking.
...
Truth is there,
Stay completely
Attached to truth.
Be kind to everyone,
...
If you are in truth
Remember, my dear
You are at the platform
Of intellectual life
...
I am, by nature peaceful
You creations, as such, wonderful.
I have no hankering and also no lamentation
I have nothing to loss my possession.
...
We are all
In foolishness
And in sleep.
We are hankering
...
Please come and hold my hand
I have no strength to walk or stand.
I am not poor and I am not in poverty,
...
Hankering for melodies to touch sorrow growing within,
shielding myself from deep emotional turmoil.
...
Life takes a class,
a lesson,
gives-
An experience.....! ! !
...
Sun makes us hot giving a hope of survival
and we are getting them since our arrival
...
just think
flowless paints
upon mirror
of broken time
...
Badru Mian going
With his two to three bibis,
I mean veiled begums
And still he is after,
...
Your relationship wet with tears and love,
Sobs and sighs,
Yearning and hankering after,
This is the tale of our life.
...
Philosophy,
Why do I often turn to it
Seeking refuge in,
To confide and repose in
...
My books compactly occupy the shelves
In random combinations like my thoughts.
I can place some of them in a jiffy,
This Nabokov or Yeats, that Borges -
...
I am here,
Come on brothers,
We will go together
To measure the air,
...
Take your own birth,
Take your own good.
For the people of the world,
...
I am hankering
It is true
I am hankering for you.
And How can I get rid of you?
...
Degradation of society is here
Quality of thievery deceit and
Unrestrained audacity are common
Be cheating money is being earned
...
The sun is setting
Behind the tree.
And I love thee.
The innocent goat
...
Traits of men,
I mean common men
Are lust, egotism,
Greed for wealth,
...
I am not the person
Hankering for fruits
Soonafter planting trees.
...
Water is life
And life in water.
Water from rain,
Rain from sacrifice.
...
Hankering for money
Not realising
Wrong path to earn.
Hankering for money
...
I want to go to Thanjavur
To meet Subbu intense endeavor
But for why and I expect no answer
From anybody here and I know
...
How can I live here,
This place becomes
Crowded with
Corrupt population.
...