Ravi Kopra Poems

Love came
flowed into my heart
emptied me of my self
filled me with glee
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Never ending Indian summer
burning heat, dust storms
people camatose on road sides
birds dropping from the sky
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A little frightened
is my heart

Still it hopes
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I am hungry for your mouth, your voice, your skin
I wander in streets without food, quiet
Bread does not sustain me, dawn disquiets me
All day I search for the liquid sounds of your feet
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Why has the whole of love come to me suddenly.
I see you with me on the Venice beach
walking hand in hand in the evening
watching the sun go beyond the horizon.
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- for R.M.

Har koi akalmand nahin ho sakta
is liyey dunia main bahut moorakh hotay hain
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Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs.
You look like a world in your posture of surrender.
My body of a brute laborer, digs in you
And makes the son leap from the depth of earth.
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You ask me
why do I love you

First the historical reason
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Tears running down your rosy cheeks
start a hal chal in my dil
how they yearn for your tears
my dry parching lips!
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Yes, I am the sweet
scented red red
rose on a stem
with green leaves
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