Hannah Bright
Ashok Chakravarthy
Emily Clairemont
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Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy

Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy is a poet hailing from India.  He is aged 44 yrs., composed nearly 1000 poems during the past two decades and presently employed with a “Govt-Partnered State Co-op Bank” at Hyderabad City, India.  I received some awards and commendations for my poetry contributions and my poems feature in several Poetry Anthologies, Magazines, Journals, web-zines etc., across the world.  Further, very recently I was conferred with D.Litt (Doctor of Literature).   Further to my credit I possess two collections of English Poetry titled (1) Charismata of Poesie and (2) The Chariot of Musings.

 

 
THE RAVAGE AT ITS WORST

Silently, when all of a sudden
The roaring and ravaging ocean
Pounced with a ferocious spell
Destined few did escape the hell.

People ran for lives, helter-skelter
Trying to escape the critical hour
But neither a place for instant safety
Nor a place worth life's guarantee.

Countless are men, women and children
Haphazardly their corpses lay strewn
The vindictive TSUNAMI tore them apart
The shocking wreckage moves every heart.

For those survived, empathy be shown
But who lost the battle, MAY REST IN PEACE.

 



IS THERE A SCOPE

Truth is tamed by deceit
Faith is forged by deceit
Love is lured by deceit
Peace is piqued by deceit
Is there a scope for change?

We have seen victims of wars
We have seen inhuman scars
We stood mute to atrocities
Ran for lives with selfish priorities
Is there a scope for change?

Communal violence and racial riots
Confidence crushed by vengeful acts
Mercy by merciless egoism butchered
Death swarms to please the disgruntled
Is there a scope for change?

Laying ways for destabilizing peace
With spirit similar we try to attain peace
Nothing anywhere seems certain
On our own we created this position
Yet, is there a scope for change?


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