Ravi Kopra Poems

- for R.M.

Har koi akalmand nahin ho sakta
is liyey dunia main bahut moorakh hotay hain
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When I hear the soft footsteps, I feel it is you
When I see a shadow moving like a wave, I feel it is you

When gently touching a tree branch in the garden
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She was bored with you
Jesus Jesus all the time
With your sermons all the time
A leopard in sheep skins
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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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Today I read Lawrence's poem
On breasts like Gloire de Dijon.
I saw the golden shadows
Of swung breasts swaying
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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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Love came
flowed into my heart
emptied me of my self
filled me with glee
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You ask me
why do I love you

First the historical reason
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If you swoon in my arms
I'll give you breath of life,
pouring my soul into you.
Your soul will meet mine
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How strange
I could cut open a brain
look into hippocampus
pituitary, amygdala
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