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Joy

All lives live for joy,
One works for joy,
One reads and writes for joy,
We help each other for joy,
Every life loves the other lives for joy,
Amassed wealth is sacrificed for joy,
In one's life one cannot live sans joy.
Oh! Lord Nataraja, you dance with joy!
You are ever and ever in supreme joy!
You are ensconced in my mind, I'm in joy!
Without joy who can live in this world?

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Soak in Love

Soak in Love

Sweet is life
When there is love,
Our joys are multiplied
When there is love,
Our woes are erased
When there is love,
Family life is elevated
To higher planes
When there is love,
Worldly life is blissful
When there is love,
Everything is beautiful
When there is love,
We are in heaven
When there is love,
Oh! You mind! You grow
When there is love.
Let us soak in love!

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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The Poor Mind

The poor mind becomes a temple
Based on the noble and virtuous
Thoughts it possesses.

The poor mind becomes a trash can
Based on the ignoble and noxious
Thoughts it contains.

The lowly always dwell
On sinister thoughts vicious
And on loathsome thoughts injurious.

If these deleterious thoughts
Of malevolence and trash are erased
The poor mind becomes highly raised
And it becomes a temple.

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Firmament

There is a firmament in every sand

There is afirmament in every piece of rock

But there none in a human heart

especially when the man is a politician

or an academician

The former gives you false promises

and the latter brags of false premises

The two together built the world

where we the common men and women

are pent up

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poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
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Bless Me Such Thousand Births, O God!

i stand like a speck with dreamy eyes
beneath this wide dome of sky
carpeted with ashen clouds
with nothing to impede my vision-
around me cool winds surfing
i am slowly drenched by soft drizzles
of melodies from distant spheres and heavens
in strange languages in soothing voices
and i spin slowly with outstretched arms-
o god! bless me such thousand births!

-s.chandra kalaadhar

poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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An aggrieved heart

Two happy birds singing together,
Two little bees humming together,
Two pretty swans gliding together,
Two harmonious hearts beating together.

One happy bird stopped its song,
One little bee dropped along,
One pretty swan was marooned,
One heart plucked and swooned.

One sad bird sings no more,
One morose bee is so sore,
One poor swan is washed ashore,
One aggrieved heart weeps to the core.

poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Sleeping

Sleeping daffodils

Drooping lotus

Laughing hyena

Hungry hippopotamus

All of them boarded on a boat

To cross the stream of sorrow

The ferryman was Father Gonzalo

It never reached the other shore

So they were drowned in the waves of tears

So they were swallowed by the waves of fears

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poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
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The Mouse

I saw a mouse dead in the bathroom

Do you know I killed it

I kept poisoned cake on the floor

The mouse could not resist its temptation

It died

Its deadbody is now in a bin

But I espy its red face looking upon me

from the ventilator

Beside it R evenge is seated on an armchair

that floats in the air

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poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
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When I Die

When I die my skin and bones will mingle with the earth
my blood plasma and all other secretions of the body will mingle with water
my breath will be one with air
the heat that keeps me alive will merge with fire and
the empty space in me will go back to the skies
What will happen to the_ I _ of mine then?
A doll made of earth dissolves
and what will become of its pricetag and of the sticker on it?

poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
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As I Rode The Chariot Of Age

as i rode the chariot of my age

i loved girls, all in flashes, beyond count

but torn away by my speed-

i was torched by their memories

but doused by my forgetfulness-

in such a fraction of a second of eyedash

i compacted epics of love in volumes-

i doubt i loved girls even as i roamed as a kid-

they never cease to be a wonder;

create turbulance by dropping a glance!

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poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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