Ravi Kopra Poems

Somewhere they're spreading their wings,
Somewhere they're running around,
Somewhere they look like poor holy men
Standing still in deep meditation.
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God tells us to love all - all humans, all animals, all nature
But he does not love a son, a holy son of christians
who still live in delusions to be pacified.
He lets him die on the cross, does not save him
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Let us get out and enjoy the rains
let us relive our memories

to walk in the mud a little
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O Captain, mere Captain!
hamara khofnaak safar ab poora ho chuka hai
jahaz har mausum main sahi salaamat raha hai
anaam jo hum chahtay thay hum ne jeet liya hai
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I love you
Like rushing to a bakery to eat the fresh bread
Like waking up in a burning house at night
Like drinking gushing water from a hose at my mouth
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In Nude

In nude you look so simple like one of your hands,
Smooth, earthly, small, round, transparent,
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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
-Genesis 2: 7

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I've enshrouded my happiness like in a sheet
I've never exposed the wounds of my heart

How will they know the pains of my heart?
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I make up my mind -
I am surely this time
going to do this
and also going to do that.
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