indoor flower plants
hug embrace and kiss
each other
to exchange
warmth in winter strips.
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not to hurt
 the serene heart
i speak no words.
 silence  still
embraces me
 for longer stints.

slowly
 catching cold
my eyes and ears
hearing  the wake up songs
of winter streams.
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show cased
the salient stakes
of first  snow fall
verywell preserved
in  nature's
treasury vaults
adoring the trees
in naked pleasures.

so soothing
the smiles of a friend
beholding
very many priceless gifts

silver clouds
slowly turning to
 golden crowds
an amazing eye feast
and intriguing
but a  sumptuous treat

The soul divine.
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waiting for you
since long
i find none
exceptyou in the deep woods.
the birdsongs tried to locate you.
the waning moon searches for you though invain.
let all these dark stripes wash away
in the onset of dawn hours.
i wait for you at the main entrance.
i am sure to capture you
well before you take anotherturn
to mesmerise me unfolding al the
memories tillnow captivated in the treasure
of my soul divine.
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under the green tree
the leaves  bid farewel
to the summer strokes
and delve in deeper thoughts
on the wings of winter streams.

Where ever you are
i wait for your turn
to make a wish
to run for me
and me alone!

a large avenue of trees
invites us both
to converse
 on love matters
in strict confidence..

descending down like an angel from far above skyspace,
The snowcoverings on the widely spread hill slope
appears exactly like a diovine angel ,a personified beauty
from heavens.

it is also like a preadsheet covered on the carpet of the floor
to accommodate the visiting women for a kitty party .
or came down for cordialdiscussions
about improvements to be made by individuals.
.
for enhancing the joy and delight of their family lives.
A nd it also looks like kashmiri,creamy white  shawl brought
 for honouring an elite and enlightened scholar
for preaching the importance of leading a moral and integrity born life.

to quench the thirsty throat
 thinking of drinking sea water
 0nly   worsens the thought.

Dressing down
to show up
for a twilight show
sun departed slowly
with no signs of despairat all.

to dress  up
in  a bright attire
for the light of early dawn
the sun came down
in joy and delight.
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failing at every attempt
kneeling down at every point
i pray the almighty
to save me and my stars
from descending down
from the blinking arena.
to this sheen less and weaning world.

Winter Haiku

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droplets on rose bud

tears of joy

 in summer strips

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On new  garden plants

pests grow in lots

 sparrows  amiss

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winter cold

my dentist

cancels appointment

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Cold wave

  search in vain

sparrow ‘s  nest vacant[4]

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Year end

trash can over flows

un kept promises

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retired from bank

he counts change

coin by coin

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 drought  time

farmer sticks eyes

to the pale sky

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Frst rains

my cotton apparel

takes a back seat

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corn field

old woman, bent upon

to spread rumors [9]

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Beginning of new era

unending search

For fresh  resolution[10]

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Purushothama Rao is bereaved

Mr. R. Purushothama Rao, an old timer on Muse India, lost his dear wife on Aug 12, 2013. Following a cardiac arrest she breathed her last at 3.20 pm yesterday. It is very shocking and tragic.

Just a couple of months back we had visited Mr. Rao's home in Guntur during the Guntur Poetry Festival, and had enjoyed the delicious lunch prepared by her. Thereafter Mr. Rao was in Hyderabad in connection of his book launch. There I met their handsome son, Shreekanta.

Years of contact while editing and posting Rao's poems on Your Space I developed a rare relationship with the family. I had attended a few family weddings, too. Mrs. Rao happens to be the sister of Prof. T. Chandra Mouli, a reputed writer and a contributor to Muse India.

I am creastfallen and feel as if I have lost a sister by her death. We deeply mourn her sad demise and share sorrow with Mr. Purushothama Rao and Professor Chandra Mouli. We pray her soul to rest in peace.

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We can’t guess

his religious affinity or identity

but all through the week

he exhibits his talent in one religion or the other

His art emporium is the foot path itself

and he exhibits chalk portraits of variety of GODs

depending on the day ,it relates

Mon , Tues,  wed and Thursday

He portrays Siva,Hanuman, Ayyappa and Saibaba respectively

and unfailingly on Saturday ,he paints  the lord of seven hills

Friday his paintings  appear at masjid or mosque

And definitely on Sunday he portrays Christ or mother Mary

All his hard work is unperturbed ,unhindered and undisturbed

Except by the rain GOD HIMSELF,  in his own explicit ways

He by person  somehow, is not available at the artistic site

But coins gifted by the onlookers only have their interface with us

He will not beg alms from any body

But the  people who gift coins,

 pray for some benefit  or the other as a boon

 from the portrayed Almightiest

they undoubtedly are the real beggars

 that crave for bountifuls

but not the colourful painter at all.

our family album

my elder daughter

defaced

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[My  daughter died of excessive dose of anesthesia at her 6 years of age. good at grasping and melodious in singing. in memory of her after 23 years of despair --]

Origin of rainbow

Why so many colours? to paint the delight in you White will be right one !!!

but prayers can-------------

Neither tablets, nor capsules gulped, save you from the sickness But be sure!!! Prayers  always can

To perspire

Between cup and lip make sure no slip of your tongue occurs please!!!

till the goal you win--------

a path to win

Moving around as a fresher in precincts of the college campus I saw butterflies buzzing around in sweet smiles and warm looks hugging the text books  in close proximity to their lovable and caring hearts. The flowering plants scent fragrance in waves delighting my nostrils in and out the  about to rain clouds hover around in the sky and inundate my soul time and again I feel my entry is discovering there after a path to win

Spring on wings

 Having undergone the drudgery

of freezing winter storms

and patiently bearing the nudity

of trees, in autumn strokes,

with all cordiality, the onset of spring

enthuses us with all new vigor and fresh vitality.

So let us start, to make our daily flights

in colorful and delightful environs

duly welcoming cordially, the spring on wings

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But a way of life

 My culture is predominantly, different one from all others, now in existence

It envisages us strictly to be righteous in all our deeds

and expects us to be more humane in approaching the other world.

It never appreciates, if we are at a bashing pace on others' ideals.

Extreme patience, Prudence and of utmost confidence in inner self

are what all we have to exude confidence

in all our traits in the contemporary society.

Your anger is your first enemy and your peaceful stances

win laurels from all over the world and forever, saves you.

Don't do any harm to truth speaking creed, and encourage them to follow suit.

our scriptures time and again, stress on these valued principles

and always guide as a true friend, and avowed philosopher.

Hinduism, according to our sages and ancestors, 
is not a religion at all but a way of life
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Portraying identity

The flowers,  grown in our garden.

are blooming with scented fragrance.

The stream passing close by my home

is flowing with crystal clear clean water.

The koel perched on the mango tree

is rendering melodious tunes. to the feast of  our ears.

Everything is in order in its movement.

But where is my mother who gave birth to me?

she entered the GOD's abode when i was a sheer child.

Only her fading memory stalls in my brain's treasure.

Surprisingly, there were no photos available in the album

to imagine, of course, her portraying identity

Be a connoisseur

When you can't sing a song

you must wish to possess musical ears

to delightfully enjoy the treat.

When you yourself can't excel in any of the streams

you must have the true quality of appreciating others' capability .

When you desire not to pray the Almighty for your own welfare

you must have the broadened heart to pray meaningfully for others'..

put your heart and soul so widened to make you step into

an universal gallery where your caliber and capacity win a praise.

Bonding together

Love can't be tagged like all other miscellaneous things
nor exhibited similar to an art piece or hung lifelessly on wall.

It should sing tunes melodiously to flow, enchanting  from one heart to the other.

with added vigor and vitality it should energize nerves in no time
and allow the soul to sail and if need to sink in day dreams.

Love is a powerful medium
to explicitly air words sprung from the innocent soul
to soar unto the sky space and fly high like a romantic flag.

love is not a man made cuisine, but a gift from GOD  to this humanity at large
to keep all of them, bonding together in extreme love and explicit doses of affection

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At large, by majority.

The koel perched on mango tree

declined to sing any melodious tune

but started singing a pathos instead.

The peacock in the park

desisted from fanning its tail

and refused to dance on the floor

but decided to reel back to forest.

All the flowers whether fragrant or not

kept away from blooming

retaining its buds stance  as it is.

The stream, without any nod for incessant flows

wears a deserted look with sunken water levels.

Why all this odds now happening in present days' trends?

all poets of different genre refused to recite poems

hiding the facts about actual happenings in this world.

All the paraphernalia of nature decided not to entertain any human race,

as it is running amok, in a critical pace,

on an indecent and objectionable phase.

The coveted womanhood is being taken lightly for a song, 

and its modesty is being put to outrages

in many ways in many cities, towns and in small  habitats too

without any obedience to law of the land

and society's continued complacency

in questioning those indecency resorted to at large by majority.

Beautiful and charming

Liking one ,is beautiful

and loving the same one, is charming

This passion need not be confined

to two young ones or the adults.

It may be the flow, towards mother

who daily works  like a machine

to keep the clock of family

to run on smooth lines.

or may extend the same affection  towards father

who as an index finger of the family

sets right the family train to move

on the righteous path excelling themselves

in all fields, where ever  , their hands lay on

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On the land of humans

 A human born as human is not behaving alike.

He desires to have mastery over all the living kingdom

For his luxurious living style, in the name of widening of high ways

had deforested and all the age old trees

and all these trees having lost their trunks

are lying scattered on the land of humans

as fallen heroes, in the world of undesirable wars.

All the water flowing lakes have got industrial pollutants into them

and the potable water, hither to drawn from very large resources

is being scuttled down and now drawn for use in bottles and big cans.

The seasons with a grudge on mankind as a whole,

have taken odd routes and troubling the whole mankind

with no pre- drawn schedules and skipping the time of arrivals.

The entire globe is now burning like hot furnace waving hot waves.

Human! can you now boast of your own making for this disastrous fall ?

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Dynamic stance

 Waves weave making journeys, of course, collectively

Once in a while, one wave rolls down on other one.

But the goal of the entire waves

is only to reach and grab the shore  into their hands.

After fulfilling this sole aim,

the mode of all waves don’t look alike.

Some waves after crossing over the shore

jumps and streaks, straight into the lower depths of the soil.

Some desire to return back to their native lands

But here is that much talked about, native place?

Unable to clearly know of its origin, waves get confused.

The waves only march ahead but won’t trace back, at any time.

To reel back is not their natural instinct.

Marching ahead forever and not looking backwards, is the trait of the waves.

Moving in close proximity to the grabbed shore

and till the point of sinking into the soil, wave possess a vital character

This vitality is to be the guiding force needed to the humans also.

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(Chalana seelam---- from Navya weekly [dt 3-3-2013]

Telugu: Dr. C.NarayanaReddy  Trans/English; Purushothamarao,Ravela)

Spells of wisdom

 Who said the nature is not charming at all?
Who uttered that God's creation is no enterprising?

Seasons speak spells of wisdom and quivers of knowledge
and the revelry of colors catches the eyes in ecstasy
look at the sky at sunset and sunrise
you will never say   that the nature is not charming!!
and His creation is not  enterprising!!!

Flowers of humanity

 When snow start falling

it looks so pure and crystal clear

as your passion towards me,

When my thoughts on you

start to opening new foliage,

I feel as if my love and affection

begin to raise hopes in your soul

The fragrance of lovely flowers 

attracts the attention of all around

Let our love stand on this earth as an unforgettable legend

and continue to spread flowers of humanity to bloom...

BE IT A FLOWER

 When i pluck one, from the plant
the other flowers surely, develop a grouse against me
for separating one from them .
If i keep a hay stuffed  scare object
before the milch cattle ,
it will stare at me seriously at once,
for keeping afar,  her kith from its udder.
Then how can  I  kill a person having  heard
best quotes from texts lines of  holy scriptures.?
At the best i try to kill your [bad] habit of viewing horror movies
till late in the night eventually disturbing your tranquility of mind.
by diverting your attention towards aesthetic ones
which will not only keep you on right path but also
enhance your perseverance in totality.

Wedrock

Earlier he propelled praises on her in tonnes

with aim of winning her heart, squarely atonce

finally the match is fixed up, to end in a wedlock

by the time of the first anniversary, it hit a bold rock

Now each one is mad for their abuse hurling stance

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Terrific and daring stance

The woman with lots of patience and courage

can dare to encounter any cruelty, she comes across

in daily chores of her life.

After going many ordeals with men folk

She now learns all possible tricks and sports

to face any type of emergency. she comes across

she is now carrying pepper spray and packet of chili powder

with her in the vanity bag she holds on. to shoulders .

God has given her needed stamina

to co habitat and co exist even with cruel tigers

smiling all the way, throughout her stay with terrific and daring stance.

On this altar of humanity

 Forever lord ! i am yours in totality

i love your quotes on love

and admire your prophesies on life

What all we earn on this earth in monetary terms

will not stay long with us on permanent basis

The name and fame we earn and the purity of heart

we hold on will stay with us for longer tints,

we are witnessing bomb blasts in all cities

where innocent kids and tiny tots are subjected to humiliation

and all young hearts who are aspiring for vocation.

were soaked in bloodshed losing their precious lives

Which religion professes massacre and terror stricken life?

Be human and behave like humans

it is a shame not to behave like humans

love the hearts of others and respond cordially to their heart beats

mind that love repeat love alone can win the hearts,

loving life should not fail on this altar of humanity.

Bless us with all divinity to run through our nerves

to lead a peaceful life on this pious earth planet

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