Ratnakar Mandlik Poems

</>Then I was quite unhappy
My mind too was gloomy.
A melancholia did captivate me
And the universe was hating me.
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</>Though I did not meet you in reality
I have seen you through my imagery
And have imagined your personality
To be akin with no one but a 'Gyan Yogi'.
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East and west, up and down
In your search I never found
Any shape in which you were bound.
You too had no specific groound
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</></>God calmly sat for meditation once
He decided to incarnate as a poet great
To be carefree amidst humans and rejoice.
Frame he built & for heart used 14 carat,
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In every walk of life politician is present,
Politics, they say has become omnipresent.
Espoused with the motto of the betterment
Of deprieved classes-their life, s improvement.
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For a while were together
Two tiny streams.
They adored one another,
Having different dreams.
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Yearning for eternal confluence
With the ultimate slumbering in subconscious
Returns with a longing, a force thunderous
In solitude, in the mind of a person pious.
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Scattered on an elevation are the Konkani huts
Adjoining the beach in an elegane resort,
With it's 'Tarang', the beach restaurant.
On a platter natural beauty the duo present.
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Drops of water help a seed to germinate
Thus, liberating a life from where it hibernates.
The same water when unleashed by deluge
Uproots grown-up trees in violent rampage.
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