Kesav Venkat Easwaran Poems

From inside the Great Walls there in Beijing
Down it came thundering
Past the Himalayan mounts
Down to that Cape to reverberate
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I searched every bit and corner
Returned with empty hands
What was lost was hidden where
Wanted to know my palms
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Oh! Light! You bring all things to sight
Put life in them, colors so bright
Animate be inanimate
Create shadows close, dark, and light
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Up on the jungle legend tree
The witty evil spirit* lived
Upside down teasing easy‘n free
Hung all day long it remained!
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You, we, me, in life-
a single entity
Match, pair, couple,
all absurdity
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Life is a gambling game
On a pack of fifty-two cards
Be it poker or rummy
Or a game of blind three-cards
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Note: These poem excerpts are my independent works based on the story material of the Sanskrit poetic work ‘Megha Dootam'(Cloud Messenger) by Poet Great Kaali Daasa- 5th century AD


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When I tell you
Love at fifty five,
I hear you chuckle;
I see you smile
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Thirst...

Parting between lips
drops a cup of hissing feels
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Pretty old man age
beyond his ways
Flame like streaks
around his face
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