LANKA SIVA
RAMA PRASAD
A POET OF THE WORLD
IN A WORLD OF THE POET!
Who is this comely cavalier coming
from that thought drink?
Why his garments stained in
bleeding black and colored ink?
Who might be this horse rider robed
in paper, silk and parchment?
How fast is he surging forward in
the glittering of word mount?
See his stallion performing the
heroics of ancient iamb, trochee and anapest!
What dactyls, spondee, pyrrhic,
paean, tetrabrach, dispondee and epitrite it exhibit!
What cadence, what rhythm, what
tones of level, rising, departing and entering!
Hark! Behold its isochrony,
intonation, syllable stress, mora and tonal changing!
Ha ha! Harken its soul stirring
sweet strophe, antistrophe and epode!
What a figure, what a speech of
neigh and irony, what a metaphorical similitude!
Behold! The horse rider in divine
white linen is a faithful and a true gentleman!
Amuses muses he with his
anachronisms, and famous for onomatopoeic sermon!
He owns the world of words and
horde of adjectives and phonaesthetics a ton!
He is clothed with a vesture dipped
in pun and his name is called the word of man!
The rider and his horse cross the
dead valley with a huge army of scribes and scribblers,
They fight the false prophets and
the beast of corruption with words and letters!
Out of the rider’s mouth go sharp
words that smite the illiteracy of the nations at a go!
He put the ills of the worlds to
his words of swords, and promises peace and prosperity glow!
HOW TO GET PREGNANT WITH IDEAS
TO DELIVER A POEM.....
That's the problem! Married with
literature for a long time and you are still not fertile,
You are welcome dear friend! We
will give you some trips how to fall on your fancy tile!
If you are on any poetry control
pills, needles or any other stoppers stop them for a while!
Please throw away that cigarette,
it may look macho or gaucho but it is dangerous and vile!
You need vitamins B C E along with
M, yes vitamin Money is the most essential one!
Fill your think pen with serene
health and maintain ideal word weight in proper tone!
Visit your doctor in the writer's
corner, let no red bulls or vodka in your bed zone open !
Go for decaf, know your cycle and
moods to plan the perfect union of paper and pen!
Count the days back if the idea is
highly scintillating for about sixteen days,
And have the love poem written
within five days dear! you are hot with cherubic rays,
Once the poem of love is completed,
relax! Look at the moon, the twinkling little star babies,
See the new star in the East door,
just after nine months you shall be singing nice lullabies!
If you speak of ideas some die
instantly, some gets aborted, some gets delivered premature!
When an idea is cared and nourished
properly it will be the greatest gift from the Mother Nature!
( Mind you! Every birth is
associated with near death experience to the mother or poet but it is the
nature's blossom,
When the child like a poem is alive
and kicking the mother forgets all her pains and hugs the child to her bosom!)
THE TREE EFFECT
When a child is born, the Oubangui
people plant a tree
When it flowers, the child is
married; he or she grows with glee
After his death his soul lives in
that tree happy and free;
From the Primitive milky Sea,
emerged seven jewels, after churning,
One is the wish fulfilling tree-
Kalpavriksha with roots of gold, Silver midriff, Lapis lazulli boughs, Coral
leaves, Pearl flower, gemstone buds, diamond fruit.
When Andhaka demon spread darkness
all over the world
Lord Siva and Parvati gave their
daughter Aranyaki, the protector of forests
To Kalpavriksha, to bring up her
with health, happiness, safety and wisdom
In the garden of Eden God planted
among many trees, a tree of Life,
A forbidden tree with fruits of
knowledge of good and evil to Adam and Eve;
Under the Norway Birch tree, light
becomes shade
But under Yggdrasil tree, Axis
Mundi, Odin gained wisdom in lieu of one eye
When the great peacemaker formed
the Iroquois confederacy,
Inspired the warriors to bury their
weapons under the white pine tree of Peace
Under the Banyan tree, grass
doesn’t grow
But under Bodhi tree, Buddha got
enlightenment and glow.
Under the Palmyra tree, milk looks
like toddy
But under the China Bamboo tree,
monks got Zen way and paddy
Under the Tamarind tree, the breeze
sounds eerie
But under the Peepal or banyan tree
sound sleep comes free
The Whispering Oak of Dodona, the
sacred Sycamore groves,
Mandara, harichandana, parijata,
samtanaka, kalpavriksha trees
a locus amoenus- a pleasure place
for the tree nymphs
The Sal tree of Jina; An inverted
tree of Bhagavad Gita, the song of God;
Another inverted in tree in our
bodies to purify our breath and blood
The mysterious five world trees of
Kabbalah, the trees of senses of Nassenes
The tree of Zaqqum of Hell, the
Nariphon tree of Thailand
The human face fruit of Jinmenju
tree that falls flat with human laugh
The Lotus tree of Greeks, The
jubokko tree of Japan,
The sky-high trees of Hungary, the
four hundred feet high Sequoia-Hyperion
A hundred meter high mountain ash
tree, the broadest Montezuma cypress,
A five thousand years old Great
Basin bristlecone pine tree in California
All these trees what do they tell?
Without us you are void and null!
We are your food and shelter; O
Modern man! So save us to save yourself!
Lest you will be a fossil and no
more story or moral to tell!
LANKA SIVA RAMA PRASAD
Dr. LANKA
SIVA RAMA PRASAD ( Dr. LSr Prasad) is a Cardio
Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon by profession, a popular author of many books and
essays. He is a cartoonist, painter, critic, Editor and orator par excellence. His knowledge in
Telugu and English earned him name. He has translated Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey
first time in to Telugu Literature. In that series of Greek literature- Epic
cycle and Greek Heroes came as the third book. His other notable translations
in to Telugu are John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained; John Bunyan’s
The Pilgrim’s Progress; Virgil’s Aeneid; Dante’s Divine Comedy. Goethe’s
Faust. Rumi’s Masnavi; Attar’s – Birds
conference; Omar Khayyam’s- Rubaiyat. He
was assigned the job of translating selected classic poems of Telugu literature
by C.P. Brown’s Acadamy which was published as Telugu songs and poems. Katthi
anchu pai- is a collection of noir genre stories. Now his published books have
crossed the prestigious hundred land-mark. Most of his books are reference
books in literature. His 106th book- the poems of Sappho was released in
Athens, 107th book- Journey to Manas sarovar was released at the holy premises
of Manas Sarovar lake. His 108th book – The Mexican Poetry- (telugu) , Inanna
the first goddess and other books are due for release. He is the recipient
of Rauel International poet Award-2017,
T.S Eliot 2017 award, Global poet Award- 2017-CANADA-WIN, Life time achievement
award-2017, Kibatek medal-2017 and many more honors. He was the host and
sponsor of PENTASI-B INDIA WORLD POETREE
FESTIVAL- October 2017
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