Read this poem tell me what do you think? poem written by sri sri a great Telugu poet?

Sri Sri translated most of his poems from Mahaprasthanam in English . To start off, this new feature I am starting as usual with his favorite poem "Kavita-O-Kavita".



TO POESY - A RHAPSODY


Poesy O poesy
It was long long ago
It was once upon a time
I was young I was green
There was nothing to be seen
The fragrance of my hope
Clung to me like a robe
So long long ago
At once upon a time
Where were you then
Ask the far horizon
In my hope in my dream
I thought I saw your crepuscular car
How beatiful you were
How beyond my reach
Far beyond my gaze
In the days long agone
My life I loafed alone
Dedicated consecrated
To you to you to you
My life I laughed away
Seeking seeking seeking
I almost forgot
What it was sought
The intoxicated moments
Were an endless torment
And I knew not
Which was which what was what
This five-fingered magic was it you
This imitation of inspiration
This decor or rhetoric
This sylogistic illogic was it you
I knew not then
And what was your form
What sybaritic grace what wingcommanding norm
Dulcet halcyon
Eohippus celestial griffon
I knew it wasn't you
I rotted in my room
I waited in the gloom
Alive alone alone
Those days long agone
That onced upon my time
And as I chimed Drenched in the downpour of my dream
Always expectant
By my discipline putrified
By my determination petrified
With many a fiery sonata
In my medulla oblongata
Pleading Oh when Oh when
Shall the gates of creation open
As thus I waited
With my breath bated
What shouts what hetaerea what chimaerae
What parallelograms of emotions
What ultramarine exultation
What trinitrotoluene of exultation
Bursting on my head
Thud thud thud thud
How did my song come to life
What was it I had seen
Was it the midnight sky rending
The very heaven descending
In a perpetual perpendicular of rain
Blowing conch blasting drum
In the ocean's skyscraping storm
I heard that very night
In the forests intricate
Metreless but not meaningless
The noises and voices of hunger and sex
Of wild animals Leo the rex roaring
Growling tiger prowling jackal howling
And too I heard
The music of the spheres
The symphony of orchestra of the stars
The earthquake's ultimatum
Empires crumbling
Governments tumbling down
And I heard the reverberating conflagrations
Of wars and revolutions
There you are
Always everywhere
Immediate as here
Instantaneous as now
And how
Could I enumerate
All that I saw that I heard
As I thought of you
How could I construe
In so many words
All the sounds all the visions
Conjured up by my contemplation of your presence
Refulgent diamond
Flowering in a lake of fire
Ferric falcon flying
Bells of fever pealing
In the cannon's mouth of deafening choir
And more and more and more
The sights and sound galore
I saw the maternity ward the midnight birth
A young mother hugging her newborn babe
I heard her dreams describing
Honeysweet vortices in her mind
I heard the sleeping baby
Sing the singsong dingdong memories of its past
And then the vast
Magnified closeup of the patient chloroformed
In a twilight of life and death
I heard his nervestrings thrum
His blood vessels hum
And I saw the drunken bum
Immobilized in the gutter
I heard his confused shutter
Complaining to the dogs
Explaining to the stars
In incomprehensive rigmaroles
The deep sea wisdom of his inner soul
Again I heard I heard I heard again
The strained refrain of stridnet pain
Welling in the eyelids half-closed
Of the metropolitan prostitute locked in the act
Of the carnal diablerie
Trading love's counterfeit zeal
For a fee that buys her meal
I also heard





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really it is one of the beautiful poems of modern Telugu literature. even viswanatha satyanarayana, a reactionary poet lauded it and embraced sri sri.when he heard that poem.





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"And more and more and more
The sights and sound galore..."

Jaysus!! It's rubbish. Pure doggerel, full of cliches & bad rhymes, scarcely intelligible.

Hit me baby one more time....The Love Rhapsody.?

I stuff my love note for her into a glass bottle and let it float on the sea to where fate deems it....at the other side of the world an equally lonely girl picks up the glass bottle and witnessed my lonely affections...she's tempted.

I accidentally knocked down a guy and it was hit-and-run for me. Few years later,I met a girl via her daughter and we fell in love. However,I soon found out she was the spouse of the man I knocked down and she has become a widow since. I've sinned.

I was set up in a fraud case and sentenced to death. My wife was heartbroken. However,my soul didn't rest in peace,hence my spirit remained on Earth . One day,my spirit returned to our house,where memories of us being passionately in love lingered. My wife heard my wish to find the real person who set me up and we both embarked on a journey together of finding the sinner. I've had justice.

Which story appeals to you the most? Be honest...is my love rhapsody good?





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uh, stalk me baby one more time or beat me baby one more time





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This is 2006 going on 07'... Haven't you heard? Love doesn't happen anymore. Love doesn't sell. It's sex and violence that sells now. Cross out the love part and put "Spectacular Rodgering" or "pop a cap in her ***" and you'll sell millons. It's sad, I know. I wish it weren't true.. but unfortunately it is. That's why I don't write. I paint! No one ever knows what the hell you mean when it's in visual form. You have to spell things out for people. The critics say they can "see what your trying to convey" ... bullshit. lol. Become an artist.. it doesn't pay much.. ok.. it pays nothing. But still... you can paint about whatever you want and people will still look at it. Even love.

Salutations,
The Nouveau Bohemian

Love Rhapsody........?

I stuff my love note for her into a glass bottle and let it float on the sea to where fate deems it....at the other side of the world an equally lonely girl picks up the glass bottle and witnessed my lonely affections...she's tempted.

I accidentally knocked down a guy and it was hit-and-run for me. Few years later,I met a girl via her daughter and we fell in love. However,I soon found out she was the spouse of the man I knocked down and she has become a widow since. I've sinned.

I was set up in a fraud case and sentenced to death. My wife was heartbroken. However,my soul didn't rest in peace,hence my spirit remained on Earth . One day,my spirit returned to our house,where memories of us being passionately in love lingered. My wife heard my wish to find the real person who set me up and we both embarked on a journey together of finding the sinner. I've had justice.

LOL...





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white or nerdy, how about a p*ssy?

Best songs of the century?

I'm working on a project and I need the best songs from the past century. I need as many song suggestions as I can get. Please no commets like "Green Day?? this sucks" or "yea it's pretty good" I need song suggestions!!

1900-Swipesy Cakewalk (Scott Joplin)
1901-The Easy Winners (Scott Joplin)
1902-The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
1903-Weeping Willow (Scott Joplin)
1904-The Yankee Doodle Boy (George M. Cohan)
1905-Leola (Scott Joplin)
1906-The Ragtime Dance (Scott Joplin)
1907-Gladiolus Rag (Scott Joplin)
1908-Pineapple Rag (Scott Joplin)
1909-Sunburt Rag (James Scott)
1910-Hilarity Rag (James Scott)
1911-Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin)
1912-It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams)
1913-Memphis Blues (W.C. Handy)
1914-Twelfth Street Rag (Euday L. Bowman)
1915-Original Jelly Roll Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)
1916-Carol of the Bells (Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych)
1917-Gesu Bambino (Pietro Yon)
1918-Carolina Shout (James Price Johnson)
1919-Bluin The Blues (Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band)
1920-Crazy Blues (Mamie Smith)
1921-Kitten on the Keys (Zez Confrey)
1922-Titina (Leo Daniderff)
1923-The Charleston (James Price Johnson)
1924-Rhaspsody In Blue (George Gershwin)
1925-Snowy Morning Blues (James Price Johnson)
1926-King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton)
1927-Back Water Blues (Bessie Smith)
1928-Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong)
1929-A Handful of Keys (Fats Waller)
1930-Puttin on the Ritz (Harry Richman)
1931-Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway)
1932-Elegy (Art Tatum)
1933-Handful of Keys (Fats Waller)
1934-Fantasia on Greensleeves (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
1935-Honky Tonk Train Blues (Meade Lux Lewis)
1936-Cross Road Blues (Robert Johnson)
1937-Sing Sing Sing With a Swing (Benny Goodman)
1938-Roll 'Em Pete (Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson)
1939-Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday)
1940-In The Mood (Glenn Miller)
1941-Take The A Train (Duke Ellington)
1942-Hoedown from Rodeo (Aaron Copland)
1943-Boogie Woogie (Tommy Dorsey)
1944-Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly)
1945-Driftin Blues (Charles Brown)
1946-The Christmas Song (Nat King Cole)
1947-Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Frank Sinatra)
1948-Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson)
1949-The Fat Man (Fats Domino)
1950-Tennessee Waltz (Patti Page)
1951-Dust My Broom (Elmore James)
1952-Night Train (Jimmy Forrest)
1953-Mess Around (Ray Charles)
1954-Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley and the Comets)
1955-Tutti Frutti (Little Richard)
1956-Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley)
1957-Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
1958-Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
1959-What'd I Say (Ray Charles)
1960-Beyond The Sea (Bobby Darin)
1961-Crazy (Patsy Cline)
1962-Green Onions (Booker T & The MG's)
1963-I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)
1964-The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
1965-Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (James Brown)
1966-California Dreamin' (The Mamas and The Papas)
1967-Respect (Aretha Franklin)
1968-Hey Jude (The Beatles)
1969-Fortunate Son (Creedence Cleerwater Revival)
1970-Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
1971-Imagine (John Lennon)
1972-Papa Was a Rolling Stone (The Temptations)
1973-Dream On (Aerosmith)
1974-Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1975-Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
1976-Turn the Page-live version (Bob Seger)
1977-Hotel California (The Eagles)
1978-Stayin' Alive (The Bee Gees)
1979-Hot Stuff (Donna Summers)
1980-Back in Black (ACDC)
1981-In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
1982-I Love Rock n Roll (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts)
1983-Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
1984-Forever Young (Alphaville)
1985-The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News)
1986-Like A Rock (Bob Seger)
1987-Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns N Roses)
1988-Kokomo (The Beach Boys)
1989-Poison (Alice Cooper)
1990-Twice As Hard (The Black Crowes)
1991-Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
1992-Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
1993-Creep (Radiohead)
1994-Loser (Beck)
1995-No More Tears (Ozzy Ozbourne)
1996-Give Me One Reason (Tracy Chapman)
1997-Haven't found one yet. It all sucks.
1998-I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing (Aerosmith)
1999-Smooth (Santana)
2000-It's My Life (Bon Jovi)
2001-In The End (Linkin Park)
2002-A Little Less Conversation (JXL featuring Elvis Presley)
2003-Are You Gonna Be My Girl (JET)
2004-Maybe I'm Amazed (Jem)
2005-Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
2006-Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
2007-Back to Black (Amy Winehouse)

71-Imagine (John Lennon) or Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
75-Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) or Kashmir (Led Zeppelin)

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1988-koko whatever it is. What happened to Metallicas and justice for all album. Yeah, only the best selling rock band ever with the song called "one" in it. Your trippin on the song line-up man. Your gonna fail the project.

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nice list.. Eric Clapton- Layla ... very epic song

Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
Highway to Hell- AC/DC
Kashmir- Led Zeppelin
Help!- The Beatles
Bad- Michael Jackson

1997:Exit Music(For A Film) by Radiohead

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You forgot Welcome to the Jungle, Chattanooga Choochoo, Moonlight Serenade, Don't Go Sitting Under The Apple Tree (Andrew's Sisters)

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respect for throwing in some Black Crowes, One of the best bands of the last 25 years, hands down. True rock n' roll thru and thru

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Suggestions for consideration--
2007: Paper Planes (M.I.A.), Radio Nowhere (Bruce Springsteen), Grace Kelly (Mika) Ruby (Kaiser Chiefs), Stronger (Kanye West), Umbrella (Rihanna)

2006: When You Were Young, or anything else from Sam's Town (The Killers), Dani California or Snow (Hey Oh) (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol), Welcome To The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance), Rehab (Amy Winehouse), Starlight, Knights of Cydonia, or Supermassive Black Hole (Muse), Through The Fire and Flames (DragonForce)

2005: The Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nails), What If, Talk, Fix You, Speed of Sound, or Swallowed in the Sea (Coldplay), I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Death Cab for Cutie), Joker & the Thief or Dimension (Wolfmother) (Also, Boulevard of Broken Dreams was released in 2004)

2004: Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand), Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Holiday, or American Idiot (Green Day), Vertigo or City of Blinding Lights (U2)

That's all I have time to go through right now, but I'll leave you with some 1997 suggestions...
If God Will Send His Angels, or If You Wear That Velvet Dress (U2), Exit Music (For A Film), Paranoid Android, or Karma Police (Radiohead), Tubthumping (Chumbawumba), Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day), or, my pick, Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)

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No Bob Dylan? *gasps* lol

1963-Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan

1965-Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
or My Generation by The Who
or I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher

1966-Paint it Black by Rolling Stones

1967-White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane (defined and started the psychedelic era)
or Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix

1969-Pinball Wizard by The Who
or Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon
or Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby Stills and Nash

1968-Sunshine of Your Love by Cream
or White Room by Cream

1971-Baba O'Riley by The Who
or Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

1970-Teach Your Children by Crosby Stills Nash and Young (song is referred to as anthem of the counterculture)
1972-Old Man by Neil Young or Heart of Gold by Neil Young
1974-Candle in The Wind by Elton John
1982-Hungry like A Wolf by Duran Duran
1986-Take my Breath Away by Berlin (Love song in Top Gun)
1987-With or Without You by U2
1989-If I Could Turn Back Time by Cher
1992-I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
1998-Believe by Cher

71-Stairway to Heaven (at the time it was more popular than Imagine)
75-Bohemian Rhapsody
83-Billie Jean