Occasional Poems – MADHU MALTI

Canto For The Laughing – Thrush : Hai – Dang Phan : : Bird Poems : :

Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush : : By Hai-Dang Phan : : : : And then rushed into the embrace of the mountainsOf the Kontum Plateau, ferried through Lo Xo pass,Blew past Măng Đen, dizzied among hairpin turns,Floating in the lushness 1,200 m above sea level,Amid a mosaic of prime evergreen, gasping.And up there weContinue reading “Canto For The Laughing – Thrush : Hai – Dang Phan : : Bird Poems : :”

Home-thoughts, From Abroad : Robert Browning : : Bird Poems : :

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad : : By Robert Browning Oh, to be in EnglandNow that April’s there,And whoever wakes in EnglandSees, some morning, unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheafRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard boughIn England—now! And after April, when May follows,And the whitethroat builds, andContinue reading “Home-thoughts, From Abroad : Robert Browning : : Bird Poems : :”

When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d : Walt Whitman : : Elegy For Abraham Lincoln : : Bird Poems : :

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’dBY WALT WHITMAN1When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,And thought of him IContinue reading “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d : Walt Whitman : : Elegy For Abraham Lincoln : : Bird Poems : :”

The Robin : Seren Roberts : : Bird Poems : :

The Robin : : By Seren Roberts He sits there tweeting merrily Happy to be alive Had ate all the seeds he needs Probably too heavy to fly So he sits, looking over the view At what flowers are left to peruse Cos jack frost has been about And they have all got the wiltingContinue reading “The Robin : Seren Roberts : : Bird Poems : :”

Ode To A Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :

Ode to a Nightingale : : By John Keats ( 1795 – 1821 ) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being tooContinue reading “Ode To A Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :”

I Watched the Moon Around the House : Emily Dickinson : : Moon Poems : :

I watched the Moon around the House : : By Emily Dickinson ( 1830 – 1886 ) Massachusetts629 I watched the Moon around the HouseUntil upon a Pane—She stopped—a Traveller’s privilege—for Rest—And there upon I gazed—as at a stranger—The Lady in the TownDoth think no incivilityTo lift her Glass—upon— But never Stranger justifiedThe CuriosityLike Mine—forContinue reading “I Watched the Moon Around the House : Emily Dickinson : : Moon Poems : :”

Moonrise : Gerard Manley Hopkins : : Moon Poems : :

Moonrise : : Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 –1889 ) : : : ; I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the candle,Or paring of paradisaïcal fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,SteppedContinue reading “Moonrise : Gerard Manley Hopkins : : Moon Poems : :”

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free : William Wordsworth : : Evening Poems : :

It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free : : BY William Wordsworth ( 1770 – 1850 ) : : : : It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,The holy time is quiet as a NunBreathless with adoration; the broad sunIs sinking down in its tranquility;The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea;Listen! theContinue reading “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free : William Wordsworth : : Evening Poems : :”

Black Beans ( Schwarze Bohnen ) : Sarah Kirsch ( German ) : Anne Stokes ( English Translation ) : : Afternoon Poems : :

Schwarze Bohnen /Black Beans : : German Poem By Sarah Kirsch (1935 – 2013), : : Translated in to English, in the year 2014 By Prof. Anne Stokes , Ph. D. ( German Literature ) , Ohio State University. : : * ©️ Carcanet Press/From theguardian.com- Educational Purposes only. : : : : : :Continue reading “Black Beans ( Schwarze Bohnen ) : Sarah Kirsch ( German ) : Anne Stokes ( English Translation ) : : Afternoon Poems : :”

Afternoon on a Hill : Edna St. Vincent Millay : : Afternoon Poems : :

Afternoon on a Hill : : Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1892 – 1950 ) : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! 2I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. 4 I will look atContinue reading “Afternoon on a Hill : Edna St. Vincent Millay : : Afternoon Poems : :”