Category: song-poems

V. Sundaram’s A Great Sant from Gujarat and Rajasthan (with rare translations of Dadu bhajans)

_____ by V. Sundaram A Great Sant from Gujarat and Rajasthan I have been inspired to write this article on Sant Dadu Dayal (1544—1603) of Gujarat and Rajasthan by seeing the entry on 22-2-2010 in the Sanatan Almanac (Hindu Calendar rooted in Sanatana Dharma) published by Sanatan…

February 22, 2010
The Long-Awaited, Unabating, Top 30 All-Time Greatest Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

_____ Below is a countdown of the top 30 poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872, and died there in 1906. The poems included here are very enjoyable and speak very well to the world, some through dialect. They show Dunbar to be unique, important, and universal by…

June 20, 2007
The Official Top 20 Countdown of the All Time Greatest Love Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

_____ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) with a friend I have been reading all the poems I can find by Paul Laurence Dunbar, in order to create another top 30 countdown. Yesterday, when I got down from the hundreds to 55 poems in order, I knew I did not want to lose…

May 19, 2007
The Gifts of Donald Hall: "Retriever"

_____ by Donald Hall Retriever Two days after Jane died I walked with our dog Gus on New Canada Road under birchy green …

October 16, 2006
The Top 20 Greatest Banjo Paterson Poems of All Time

_______ Below are the Top 20 poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson (Barty to his friends, by the way), who lived from 1864 into 1941. They are arranged from number 20 down to number 1, placed in order by my preference after reading the 222 Paterson poems found on the web.…

September 3, 2006