Ravi Panamanna Poems

Love at first sight
Makes every heart feel so elate.
Love at first sight
Makes our world so bright!
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Indian Postal Service has produced umpteen mail runners like this during its evolutionary period and this poem is a dedication to all these unknown mailrunners who had enlivened our hamlets by doing a selfless couriership. Now, the last mailrunner has also withdrawn from the scene.

IN MEMORY OF THE MAIL RUNNER AYAMU. He was a mail runner who ran with a mailbag upon his shoulders for umpteen seasons to my hamlet Panamanna from a Sub Post office three miles away. Six miles a day he ran by beating the seasons. He ran in the same route for decades, silently carrying the cross upon his shoulders.
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What lies beyond the sunset?
Opening hues
Twinkling stars
A waking moon
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Life is an oceanic sway
with umpteen hidden whirls,
Where, often is a separation
than a re-union,
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A PLEAD UNTO ALL COUPLES - Let there be no divorce in this world.

You are leaving my dales
But not from my dreams.
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When I was in heavens
You were sleeping in me.
When I came to earth
You were waking within me,
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When I retire to bed
Londoners get out for an evening stroll.
The Easterners will be snoring
And the Bay of Bengal is deep asleep.
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Date of composition 19th August 1993.

To a paining heart
Do not talk Greek and Latin,
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I see a frozen road
and pick-up my tack
To revisit my old inns.
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'I am engaged in writing,
So please be waiting.
Don't purchase my peace,
You are losing a master piece! '
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