by Kushal Poddar

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January 19, 2008

Visitors in the gatherland

September 24, 2009 07:47 AM EDT (Updated: September 24, 2009 08:06 AM EDT)

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Than bauk for a travel song

Neon, neon

we are on roads

a song travels.

Thank bauk for land’s end

a petrel fly

in my sky now

land shies away.

Gatherland’s visitors

(To Lewis)

Any memory alive is of the seas.

“Pass me the booze, Lewis.” Moon sure is larger;

the forest of Satpura oozes dark blood.

After the bottle travels from hand to hand,

it is so not sure why we are in this forest

waiting for a sun dwindling behind mountains.

“Beware of the bison sir.” The voice trails, sinks.

“Pass me the booze, Lewis.” Cold, we cross time’s lines.

Of course a sunrise is not required right now.

We have gone beyond a mere solar system.

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Comments: 64

Lewis (keeping those fires burning) K. Sep 24, 2009, 8:23am EDT

I will drink to that, dear friend. Don't know what we're drinking, but love the effects...

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 8:35am EDT

I always go for whiskey. So drink to our brotherhood.

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 8:52am EDT

yes! a shot for me please =D

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 9:28am EDT

just one shot to relax princess =D please?

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:13am EDT

Okay this time.

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 10:41am EDT

yes! =D

barb n. Sep 24, 2009, 10:51am EDT

see, even princess's get a shot of whiskey....Gobble, Gobble (slang for Wild Turkey)

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 11:00am EDT

ha ha! gobble gobble down the hatch

Jennifer K. Sep 24, 2009, 4:10pm EDT

I need one of those while your passing around the bottle. : )

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 9:58pm EDT

Jennifer thanks for joining us. We must have a crate now. Otherwise we shall fall short.

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Ann M. (Site Scryer) Sep 24, 2009, 8:49am EDT

Gatherland's Vistors sounds a bit like a Lewis and Clarke expedition! Also, I really like your Than Bauks. The structure is subtle enough that, depending on the rhymes, it can sound like free verse.

Thank you for posting to The Surreal Circus. You are now featured.

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:13am EDT

I am honored

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Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 8:52am EDT

wonder what the traveling song is? =)

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:38am EDT

Country road take me home...Denver has an effect on me.

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 10:42am EDT

I love that song

Jennifer K. Sep 24, 2009, 4:11pm EDT

That's a good song!!!!!!!!!! : )

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Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 8:58am EDT

oozes dark blood...love blood =D

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:14am EDT

OMG

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 10:42am EDT

can't help me ole' vampire loving self =D

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:43am EDT

I already feel fangs growing in me...you know it was bound to

Dawn (fly on the wall) Sep 24, 2009, 10:48am EDT

ha ha! yes! meooow

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lynn a. Sep 24, 2009, 9:02am EDT

This than bauk. I really don't know what it is, but it seems there are always 4 beats to each line. I will have to look this up.

Think it is still time to say suvo sandhya to you. Maybe not.

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:15am EDT

Suvo sandhya indeed

lynn a. Sep 24, 2009, 11:52pm EDT

Oh! So now it must be Supravat!

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Purrrrrrrrrrr~Genki dashite~Nantoka naru-yo! S. Sep 24, 2009, 9:09am EDT

raises glass of elixir forever in salud~

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:37am EDT

Salud Purr. To a land of no evil!

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Purrrrrrrrrrr~Genki dashite~Nantoka naru-yo! S. Sep 24, 2009, 9:09am EDT

Thanks for posting to GutterGirls~

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JOHN BECK Sep 24, 2009, 9:18am EDT

Ein Prosit der Gemutlichkeit

Sandi S. Sep 24, 2009, 10:06am EDT

Exactly!

Kushal Poddar Sep 24, 2009, 10:18am EDT

May I elucidate to others that so far I know it is a well known Octoberfest song. It loosely mean a toast to your health.
Hope the poem fits to the mental health too.