AuthorUsha Raman

love

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Wonder of a new world brings in joyOf the lush green grass,The breath of freshness,The new world of imagination,Reflecting through the realm ofNew gay colours of profusion,Where the imagination dwells,Feasting the mind on the fruits ofUnending bliss, sensation and love. Soft sweet mellow love dressed inGolden dress of royalty,Fidelity and virility,Is marred by nothing but the doubtsAnd fears of...

Changing wave

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Changing wave changes the mind,When mother makes the children grind,She is close to the child who earns,Derides the one who chooses to burn,Time in work which does not breed,Money to fulfil familial needs.She compares children’s pays in store,Inches towards the one who has more,Praise and curse is a faulty game,Money has love which is tamed,A good pay gives a feeling grand,Mother’s love, then has...

lust in love carnival

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Homage To a body soaked In lust, Lost in dark, In love, Carnival. Homage To a gravitating mind In the darkness Of lust, Of love, Carnival. An effort To enlighten, Not restrain, The carnival. A shining bosom Fair, In love, in lust, Innocent soft deceit, In whispers, Of tender love And An ungrateful Fair, Shining bosom, Glossy broad lips, Steeped in lustful mood, Charged by A seductive look. (...

tradition and husband

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     A happy woman I can’t be,With an unknown man with me.I fear a man in tradition,Who can put me to perdition,Of manners, music none,Of tortures, venom anew,A mother-in-law for mental torture,A father-in-law for hateful strictures,An old fabricated hell a husband is,Where tune is deaf,Where senses are numb,A husband seasoned in perversity,A pernicious human,Full of old adages. ( I had written...

a spinster’s dilemma

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Into avenues I wander,To seek a wonderOf happiness in matrimony,Unsettled in my emotion,I have no formulation,The doubts toss me heavilyFrom side to side,On which I ride,The wrestle within is alive,The calmness within me has died,Only if I mend my mental feature,Mortal love will beam into laserAnd be strengthened to fulfilment,Or else be frozen into a metal,Then none can affrontThe steady calm...

waiting for time

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Is there anything worth a making?I stand near the elevator waiting,To thrust myself discovering,The proper route of life.I cannot get the cream,Warped by the scream,All dying reality flees,The morbid life continues,With no negotiation to make,A long endless wait,For life’s endless slate,A fistful of delights,Cragged sorrow creaks,Weeping laughter kills time,Not a preposterous shrine. (...

a steering wheel

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When an idea is propounded,A little later is confounded,How can life expound a new way,When there is breathless inhibition?Baseless fear blinds the mind,A rootless root is its kind,Tensed, confused and deformed,A massive wealth is dissolved,In a mind scattered and dismayed,The strange chronic fear betrays,The knowledge of reality to prevail.When a nascent perception of truth begins,Understanding...

myth to muse

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The dreams So few to muse,Are deterred By new to a view,Of tomorrow Near and here,What is eclipsed Cheer or fear?What is arranged First and last?Such a plane is Life as a knife,In a bid to cut longings,Is there a wilful segregationOf the few and the trueTo ride into a dawn ofDauntless river of pride? ( Dreams are akin to myths which cannot be a reality. Even if there are a few good dreams which...

our nation

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For many years our nation strived, To achieve and attain in its stride, Material development sans the spiritual, Our vain political ritual, Tangled in a web of confusion, Corruption has no inhibition, Rare opportunities for talent new, Laws framed for select few, Terrorism and hedonism thrive, In a nation which strived. One feels sorry to see its state, States fighting for their cakes, It suffers...

Fumes

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It is myself I turn into,To see the region of truth.But there are fumes,Blurring my inner blooms.Fumes are like dreams,Vanishing into the void.They sprawl into vengeful clouds,Like a smokescreen which shrouds,The in-most perception of reality,It devours the in-most gaiety.

( It is difficult to face reality if one does not know the hidden truth in oneself.)

Usha Raman