Efflorescence 2025 - Chennai Poetry Circle - 18 Jan 2026 - 25th Edition Release - Happy to be part of the Anthology Launched #UmasreeRaghunath #Anthologies

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Efflorescence 2025 – Umasree Raghunath

Poem Title:  Happiness Matters

Looking out through the window,

I watch the doves conferencing the pane

What would they be talking?

I wondered and felt happy above disdain

Health, I compromised unthoughtfully!

With it, my happiness vanished gleefully

Stress, was my constant companion

Sharing my space, meals and every tension

Pleasing people, was my go-to goal in life

Less did I know, that I can please all like a wife

Targets, Milestones, is what I thought matter

Pleasures of life took its backseat to batter

Every invite honoured, every event attended

I felt like the Guest of Honour with smile intended

Then, the hospital bed invited me with glory

I embraced the needles and medicines in fury

Tears rolled down, when I no longer mattered

To everything I thought I am indispensable!

In no time, people forgot I exist, except family

And few best friends who still adore me in ally

A silent lesson, creeped up in life

That nothing but your inner peace and happiness

Is all that matters, for you and your own

No matter, what position, title or money you hold

Don’t rush to do hundred things, but few

That makes you happy and lets you be healthy

Be like those doves conferencing on the window

Instead of being your own fake shadow

Be a person, who can smile with happiness

Spread peace, spread joy and live life!

Book Launched on 18 Jan 2026

"Poetry Anthology" - "Shades of Loves" by Rhyvers Press.

 Happy to be part of new Poetry Anthology...Shades of Love. Life just gets beautiful with poetry that mystically weaves the magic of emotions into words

India Poetry Circle Confluence VI - 'Silver Years in Between'

 Happy to be part of India Poetry Circle Confluence 6....loved getting my copy today and feeling elated seeing my Ago poem. Thank you Jairam Seshadri and Anju Kishore for your painstaking efforts in bringing this to us

SOUL SERENADE ANTHOLOGY - Published on 12 December 2022 by Soul Scribers Society

 SOUL SCRIBERS SOCIETY and our SOUL SERENADE ANTHOLOGY finally set the sail!!!

Rains are lashing,

Shores are gushing

Winds are blowing

Our ship has set the sail

Poetry set on Gail!!!

All the glows on sea

shines together with soul

happiness is at glee

making this journey whole!!!

Time for Soul Serenade!!! Set to sail

As we unleash the poets verses in joy

Amidst the winter blues and stormy frails

We thank all those who made this joyful ride!!!

Thank you Geethanjali Dilip, Rhyvers Press, S Affan Yesvi for brining this Anthology of 42 poets. The cover pic of Nibedita Sen amazing art makes it more appealing as a book ...Missed being at Gokarna at the launch, but heart and soul is filled with joy real, as the book is all set to sail....amidst Chennai rains and Storms.

Pics Courtesy: Geethanjali Dilip - Thank you dear

Poetry Anthology: Sanatana Bharat - Azhadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav- 15 Aug 2022 - DIAMOND INDIA - UNHEARD SONGS OF OBSCURE HEROS

 

Patriotic Poems

 

Poem Title 1:  Rani Velu Nachiyar

 

The Power Queen of Sivaganga,

flowed her valour like River Ganga

Veera Mangai of South India

First Queen to wage war against British India

Ali’s Army, Feudal Lords,

Maruthu brothers, Dalit Commanders

supporting Nachiyar

with un-scattering loyalty

 training to end the common enemy

Boundless agony on tragic ends

unrelenting sacrifices till the end

Udayaal stood the spirit of the Queen

Raising the bar of the army

Loyalty and unflinching faith

Rani Velu Nachiyar

is the Name of Courage,

Nerves tightening the blood

surging her head in pride

As she reckoned to kill

as fitting reward to treasons

1780- The year marked in bold

epoch making battle of the queen

with the fully armoured British

To re-establish her land and soil

for her and her own people

The ebb and Flow of life

A Woman, A Warrior and

A Mighty Queen Called Velu Nachiyar

survived surpassing all the hurdles

Wins the destiny

Etched her name in the History

Of Mother India

As the Valiant Power Woman

remained from south of India

Called

Rani Velu Nachiyar!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poem Title 2:  Alluri Sita Rama Raju

 

The name that brought fear

with the terror in his eyes

and the valour in his arms

Rama Raju, the Telugu Son

A National Revolutionary

With wisdom, pride, and courage

Saving his traditional forms of agriculture

taking over non-traditional guerrilla wars

Mustering the forces of tribals

As the Hero of the jungles

British thirst to quench the rebellion

unstopped manhunts chasing Raju

He left behind his lady love Sita

to embrace sacrifices to his first love India

familiar with the struggles of his Nation

The sounds of his fierce horse rides

leaving behind spiritual tutelages

sent shrills down the spines of British

Messiah, the tribals called him

The Charisma that influenced many

Educating the people of their rights

And engaging in fearless fights

touring the deadly forest terrains

taking a control of geographical plains

A rebel, truly honest to his land

Martyred tied to a tree blind

People cried beating drums

singing songs in their hero’s praise

Bows, Arrows and Spears

Continued the movement he began!

Heroes like Rama Raju do not die!!!

They live in every miniscule soil

Liberated, Free, and rightfully owned

Homages paid to the bravery and scarified

A life short- but well lived

As the one and only Alluri Sita Rama Raju!!!

The Gallant Son of Andhra Pradesh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Chapter on Empowering Women by MGR University HR Management and Humanities Department -ISBN: 978-93-5593-750-6- Released on 8 Mar 2022