AtreyaSarma Uppaluri Poems

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Green leaves
gazing at red flowers
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After sipping off your coffee
Put the empty cup into the sink

After eating your food
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'Are you the one, I've been waiting for, all my life?
Are you the one, he has made, for me alone? '
At long last, have I met the angel of my dreamful quest,
In mind and body, in heart and soul with beauty blest.
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She is breezing along a step behind
Her own piloting shadow inclined.

Her blooming smile unfading, vibrant and radiant
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The panoramic cerulean tapestry
What an amazing celestial mystery!

Woven with prominences rocky
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When a baby is bubbly with her smiles
And plays with herself like a cherub
We like to pick her up and cuddle
Not willing to pass it on to another.
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then…
girls whiled away
their idle time
by fiddling with
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[Ugadi is the New Year Day in parts of India – Andhra, Karnataka, Maharashtra, synchronising with spring and bringing along with it a spring of hope when the people wish for good to the entire life in creation. Ugadi or Yuga Adi literally means, in Sanskrit, beginning of a new age.]

Ugadi, we welcome you with open arms wide!
Give us strength to accept anything in life’s ride –
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baldy’s wedding –
she accepts her man
heir or no hair
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[Ugadi is the new-year day in several parts of India and is a major festival]

It was the dawn of the Ugadi festival
I squeezed the paste onto my toothbrush…
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