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Best Benares Poems

Below are the all-time best Benares poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of benares poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Land of Poetry It Is
In my dream, appears a mysterious land from far away...                       
of the vermilion sky at...

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Categories: benares, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: benares, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Steppin' Out
There once was a man of Benares
who often danced with fairies
they taught him many steps
so he would be as adept
as a woman he one day...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: benares, fantasy
Form: Limerick



Journey To Varanasi
Delhi seems  closer than it was last time. 
After a tea with GST, 
on to a backstreet  of Varanasi, 

Untouched by authority; 
ignored...

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Categories: benares, god, places,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs