Mahathi Mydavolu Poems

When still a nestling, I learned to flutter wings
to soon return to roost... my mother's lap.
When young it was freedom-I flew with winds
across and too against. I stopped to flap
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Behind the rousing silvery milky way,
they say there lies a carnivore black hole!
I never saw, but take that as the truth.
When slip into the lewd desires we deep
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I know, I am tilling a barren land.
But this was once a desert, where serpents
wiggled for rats below the dancing sand
and cactuses survived by life's penchant.
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O God of Universe, O Lord of love,
Accept my prayers, and listen to my woe.
Can thee spot me O Lord, a man in cove
Amongst a billion humans on a show? !
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When legs are tied and hands are busy, don't
you worry! When your lips are sealed, your eyes
are closed and ears are plugged, oh never moan!
They're vain by mortal vein...but pleas no lies!
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Didn't see thee Lord with eyes, nor smelled thy scent.
I never heard thy voice nor touched thy skin.
But felt thy grace in deep silence and din.
How can explain this all in world's accent?
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When you are drunk,
when you are in evil company,
when you're conspiring against someone,
when you are at tantrums,
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ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते |
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ||
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Forget your family, your kith and kin.
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The broken blues are prowling on the roads.
The space has smears of earth. With deafening roars
the raising ocean billows traversed fjords
and opened wide in deserts, nether's doors.
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That little rose was born with one longing,
...a weird desire that grew with pinking bud
and reddened with the petals blossoming...
alas to desert home, her roots and mud!
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