This is anthology of poems of Nithin RS. This poetry blog has more than 400 poems ranging over two decades. I started writing poems in 1998. I wish to tell tiny tales through my poems. I welcome you to my poetry world :)
10 May 2022
Ray Of Hope
9 May 2022
Closing Doors
8 May 2022
The Island Of Creativity
7 May 2022
A Farmhouse Wish
I wish to lease
A farmhouse somewhere in the hills of Idukki
Where the fog and mist welcome the mornings
An old building left behind by the British owner
With wooden floors and ceilings and a cellar
Cellar used to store produce from the farms
A fireplace to enjoy some drinks at night
Maybe some ghosts hanging around
To give a company and tell tales from another era
A nice place to enjoy the emptiness of life
Surrounded by mango, nutmeg, and teak trees
Pepper creepers crawling on the smaller trees
Farms of tea and cardamom keep the air fragrant
The Orange trees amidst the tea plants look odd
The bushes of cinnamon trees evoke strong feelings
Along with the cloves and vanilla beans
Maybe some apples and peaches too
Small streams run down through the farms
The freshly brewed coffee and tea from the area
May make the mornings exciting for walks
Along the hills towards the local junction
To get local news and a bit of banter with people
A place to enjoy the monsoon rains and the winter
A life away from the cities and concrete jungles
Farming and enjoying the harvest of produce
Maybe setting up a microbrewery for wine
With fresh air aplenty and less humidity
And a lot of big hills on the horizon
The rides through the hairpins will be exciting
Trekking in the jungles and boating in dams
There are plenty of things to do
Maybe I am still in love with the hills
As I grew up on a barren hill with tapioca fields
This poem is inspired by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omMJ9zRoO8 A couple from London restoring their Portuguese Quinta. The images are taken from Shutterstock and Cardamom Farm Shutterstock
6 May 2022
Sunrise At Kanyakumari Beach
Kanyakumari,
The southernmost tip of the Indian mainland
It boasts of a small beach with some rocks
The curves in the map are real down there
A rare beach to have both sunrise and sunset
We stayed overnight to see the first rays
In the pitch darkness, we went to the beach
Stood among the patient crowd to get the best view
On a distant horizon, the sun rose from the sea
Splitting the darkness with bright light
With a tinge of orange shade clouds
It revealed the beauty of the beach unlike under lights
The sun slowly moved towards the Vivekananda rocks
And then placed itself aside the Thiruvalluvar statue
A rock-based pathway towards the sea emerged
Parallel to the Vivekananda rocks
We slowly walked through it to the end
We sat on the rocks and saw the sun moving away
Then looked at the beach from meters inside the sea
It was magical with the sea on both sides
It was scary, but it was memorable
As the images of the Tsunami
That lashed there in 2004
Was still fresh in the mind
As the dawn bloomed
Boats started taking visitors
To the Vivekananda rocks
We rather enjoyed the Vivekananda rocks
From the rock pathway, as we walked back to the beach
The comments on Twitter, about the best beaches, as part of a question related to my poem The Last Sunset gave me the inspiration to write about the sunrise I saw at Kanyakumari Beach. This is the southernmost tip of India, if you check the map. Both the sunrise and sunset here are beautiful. The images are taken from Shutterstock and Wikimedia Commons.