| | Nivant 
 |  |  |  | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 1:09 am: |       |  
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 Arun Kolhatkaranchi kavita kunakade ahe ka?
 
 
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| | Sunilt 
 |  |  |  | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 3:46 am: |       |  
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 maaJyaamato %yaancao AaDnaava kÜlhTkr nasaUna kÜlaTkr Aaho.
 
 Aqaa-t kÜNaakDo %yaancyaa kivata Asalyaa tr malahI hvyaaca Aahot...
 
 
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| | Nivant 
 |  |  |  | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 3:58 pm: |       |  
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 Sunilt,
 Barobar, te kolatkar have hote.
 kshamasv
 
 
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| AÉNa kÜlaTkranaI [nga`jaI va marazIt kivata ilaihlyaa .jaojaurI naavaacaa %yaancaa kivatasanga`h Aaho.
maI svata %yaanaa maÜza vagaOro saÜDa pNa kvaI sauwa maanaayalaa tyaar naahI. maharaYT/at 150to 200 laÜkaMcyaa
var %yaanaa kvaI maanaNaaro laÜk nasaavaot.pNa navasaaih%yaatIla kmpUXaahImaQyao yaanao %yaacaI paz KajavaayacaI
va badlyaat %yaanao yaacaI KajavaayacaI va dÜGaaMcyaa p`isawIcaI saÜya krayacaI Asaa p`kar Aaho.30 35
vaYaa-pUvaI- AXaI ek TÜLIca marazIt yao}na gaolaI kovaL maaQyama jagatat yaaMcaI ima~manDLI psarlaolaI
Aahot mhNaUna yaaMcaI dKla GaotlaI gaolaI
 
 
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| kmpUXahI vagaOro izk Aho pNa malaa mauLat vaaTt ik kÜlaTkrancyaa [nga`jaI kivata AiQak caangalyaa Ahot
maraizpoxaa. Aqaa-t Ê ho vyai>gat mat . ja,ojauir maQalyaa kih kivata [qao TaktÜ .
 
 
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| | Nivant 
 |  |  |  | Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 4:44 pm: |       |  
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 Arun Kolatkaranche kharetar mi naav dekhil eikale navate. Atta te gelyavar tyanche khup kautuk vachale -- mhanun ha BB ughadala.
 
 Ashutosh, kavita taaK -- baghu ya kasha vaTatat te..Dhanyavaad.
 
 
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| | Sanket 
 |  |  |  | Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 1:22 pm: |       |  
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 malaasauwa vaacaayacyaa Aahot %yaaMcyaa kivata. Da^. yao} Va ²
 
 
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| | Rajanishj 
 |  |  |  | Thursday, December 02, 2004 - 12:00 pm: |       |  
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 AADI
 KOSALA MI VACHALI AAHE. GREAT.
 MARATHIMADHE AASE BOOK PUNHA KADHI YEIL
 TE SANGTA YET NAHI.
 NEMADENCHI HINDU KADAMBARI KADHI YENAR TE PAHAYACHE.
 
 
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| | Sunilt 
 |  |  |  | Friday, December 03, 2004 - 5:08 am: |       |  
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 rjanaIXaÊ naomaaDoMcyaa saaih%yaacaI cacaa- kÜlaTkrancyaa  BB var kXaalaaÆ kÜsalaakaraMcaa vaogaLa  BB Aaho naa.
 
 
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| | Rajanishj 
 |  |  |  | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 1:35 pm: |       |  
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 sunilt
 sorry.
 gadbad zali
 o k
 
 
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| | Bee 
 |  |  |  | Monday, October 10, 2005 - 9:08 am: |       |  
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 [qao AÉNa kÜlaaTkraMcaa nausata baIbaI Aaho pNa kuNaIhI kivata maa~ ilaihlyaa naahIt. Aaho kuNaI laxaat
GaoNaaroÆ
 
 
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| | Bee 
 |  |  |  | Monday, October 10, 2005 - 9:21 am: |       |  
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 maI [qao kahI  URLs  dotÜ Aaho. KUp Cana gaV maaihtI vaacaayalaa imaLola.
 
 http://www.hindu.com/lr/2004/09/05/stories/2004090500230300.htm
 
 
 http://locana.blogspot.com/2004/09/arun-kolatkar.html
 
 
 
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| Butter fly
 
 There is no story behind it.
 It is split like a second.
 It hinges around itself.
 
 It has no future
 It is pinned down to no past.
 It's a pun on the present.
 
 It's a  little yellow butterfly.
 It has taken these wretched hills
 Under its wings.
 
 Just a pinch of yellow,
 It opens before it closes
 and it closes before it opens.
 
 where is it?
 
 -- Arun Kolatkar
 
 
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| A Scratch
 
 what is god and what is stone
 the dividing line if it exists is very thin at jejuri
 and every other stone is god or his cousin
 
 there is no crop other than god and god is harvested here
 around the year and around the clock
 out of the bad earth and the hard rock
 
 that giant hunk of rock the size of a bedroom
 is khandoba's wife turned to stone
 the crack that runs right across is the scar
 from his broadsword he struck her down with once
 in a fit of rage
 
 scratch a rock
 and a legend springs
 
 ---- Arun kolatkar from 'Jejuri'
 
 
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| maO BaaBaIkÜ baÜlaa
 @yaa Baasaabako D\yauTIpo maO Aajaa]Ð Æ
 BaDk gayaI saalaI.
 rhmaana baÜlaa gaÜlaI calaa]Mgaa.
 maO baÜlaa [k rMDIko vaastoÆ
 calaava gaÜlaI gaaMDU....
 
  AÉNa kÜlaTkr
 
 
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| Yeshwant Rao
 
 Are you looking for a god?
 I know a good one.
 His name is Yeshwant Rao
 and he's one of the best.
 look him up
 when you are in Jejuri next.
 Of course he's only a second class god
 and his place is just outside the main temple.
 Outside even of the outer wall.
 As if he belonged
 among the tradesmen and the lepers.
 I've known gods
 prettier faced
 or straighter laced.
 Gods who soak you for your gold.
 Gods who soak you for your soul.
 Gods who make you walk
 on a bed of burning coal.
 Gods who put a child inside your wife.
 Or a knife inside your enemy.
 Gods who tell you how to live your life,
 double your money
 or triple your land holdings.
 Gods who can barely suppress a smile
 as you crawl a mile for them.
 Gods who will see you drown
 if you won't buy them a new crown.
 And although I'm sure they're all to be praised,
 they're either too symmetrical
 or too theatrical for my taste.
 Yeshwant Rao,
 mass of basalt,
 bright as any post box,
 the shape of protoplasm
 or king size lava pie
 thrown against the wall,
 without an arm, a leg
 or even a single head.
 Yeshwant Rao.
 He's the god you've got to meet.
 If you're short of a limb,
 Yeshwant Rao will lend you a hand
 and get you back on your feet.
 Yeshwant Rao
 Does nothing spectacular.
 He doesn't promise you the earth
 Or book your seat on the next rocket to heaven.
 But if any bones are broken,
 you know he'll mend them.
 He'll make you whole in your body
 and hope your spirit will look after itself.
 He is merely a kind of a bone-setter.
 The only thing is,
 as he himself has no heads, hands and feet,
 he happens to understand you a little better.
 
 Arun Kolatkar from JEJURI
 
 
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| A game of tigers and sheep
 
 Who has the tigers and who the sheep
 
 never seems to make any difference.
 
 The result is always the same:
 
 She wins,
 
 I lose.
 
 But sometimes when her tigers
 
 are on the rampage,
 
 and I've lost half my herd of sheep,
 
 help comes from unexpected quarters:
 
 Above.
 
 The Rusty Shield Bearer,
 
 neutral till then,
 
 para-drops a winning flower 
 
 yellow
 
 and irrelevant 
 
 on the checkerboard
 
 drawn on the pavement in charcoal,
 
 cutting off the retreat
 
 of one tiger,
 
 and giving a check to the other;
 
 and quickly follows it up
 
 with another flower 
 
 just as yellow
 
 and just as irrelevant  except
 
 that it comes down even more slowly;
 
 a flower without a search warrant
 
 that brushes past her earlobe,
 
 grazes her cheek,
 
 and disappears down the front
 
 of her low-cut blouse 
 
 where she usually keeps
 
 her stash of hash 
 
 to confuse her even further, with its mildly
 
 narcotic
 
 but very distracting fragrance.
 Traffic lights
 
 Fifty phantom motorcyclists
 
 all in black
 
 crash-helmeted outriders
 
 faceless behind tinted visors
 
 come thundering from one end of the road
 
 and go roaring down the other
 
 shattering the petrified silence of the night
 
 like a delirium of rock-drills
 
 preceded by a wailing cherry-top
 
 and followed by a faceless president
 
 in a deathly white Mercedes
 
 coming from the airport and going downtown
 
 raising a storm of protest in its wake
 
 from angry scraps of paper and dry leaves
 
 but unobserved by traffic lights
 
 that seem to have eyes only for each other
 
 and who like ill-starred lovers
 
 fated never to meet
 
 but condemned to live forever and ever
 
 in each other's sight
 
 continue to send signals to each other
 
 throughout the night
 
 and burn with the cold passion of rubies
 
 separated by an empty street.
 
 ---- Arun Kolatkar'Kala ghoda'
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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| Traffic lights
 
 Fifty phantom motorcyclists
 
 all in black
 
 crash-helmeted outriders
 
 faceless behind tinted visors
 
 come thundering from one end of the road
 
 and go roaring down the other
 
 shattering the petrified silence of the night
 
 like a delirium of rock-drills
 
 preceded by a wailing cherry-top
 
 and followed by a faceless president
 
 in a deathly white Mercedes
 
 coming from the airport and going downtown
 
 raising a storm of protest in its wake
 
 from angry scraps of paper and dry leaves
 
 but unobserved by traffic lights
 
 that seem to have eyes only for each other
 
 and who like ill-starred lovers
 
 fated never to meet
 
 but condemned to live forever and ever
 
 in each other's sight
 
 continue to send signals to each other
 
 throughout the night
 
 and burn with the cold passion of rubies
 
 separated by an empty street.
 
 Arun Kolatkar 'poems of Kala ghoda'
 
 
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| A LOW TEMPLE
 
 A low temple keeps its gods in the dark.
 You lend a matchbox to the priest.
 One by one the gods come to light.
 Amused bronze. Smiling stone. Unsurprised.
 For a moment the length of a matchstick
 gesture after gesture revives and dies.
 Stance after lost stance is found
 and lost again.
 Who was that, you ask.
 The eight arm goddess, the priest replies.
 A sceptic match coughs.
 You can count.
 But she has eighteen, you protest.
 All the same she is still an eight arm goddess to the priest.
 You come out in the sun and light a charminar.
 Children play on the back of the twenty foot tortoise.
 
 
 
 THE HORSESHOE SHRINE
 
 That nick in the rock
 is really a kick in the side of the hill.
 It's where a hoof
 struck
 
 like a thunderbolt
 when Khandoba
 with the bride sidesaddle behind him on the blue
 horse
 
 jumped across the valley
 and the three
 went on from there like one
 spark
 
 fleeing from flint.
 To a home that waited
 on the other side of the hill like a hay
 stack.
 
 
 THE PATTERN
 
 a checkerboard pattern
 some old men must have drawn
 yesterday
 
 with a piece of chalk
 on the back of the twenty foot
 tortoise
 
 smudges under the bare feet
 and gets fainter all the time as
 the children run
 
 
 THE MANOHAR
 
 The door was open.
 Manohar thought
 it was one more temple.
 
 He looked inside.
 Wondering
 which god he was going to find.
 
 He quickly turned away
 when a wide eyed calf
 looked back at him.
 
 It isn't another temple,
 he said,
 it's just a cowshed.
 
 -- Arun Kolatkar
 
 
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   kvaI tÜ ksaa Asao AananaIM Æ
 
 AÉNa kÜlaTkr
 
 
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| | Bee 
 |  |  |  | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 10:32 am: |       |  
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 हा आततायी किनारा
 निराधार
 
 ज्यांनी दाखवला तुला
 ती माणसंच होती का
 
 आणि माणसं खरच एवढी दुष्टं
 असू शकतात का आई
 
 तसं असेल
 तर माणूस म्हणून जन्माला येण्यात तरी काय अर्थ आहे
 
 त्याच्यापेक्षा एक हत्ती म्हणूनच
 का जन्माला येऊ नये मी ?
 
 
 
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| | Bee 
 |  |  |  | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 10:51 am: |       |  
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 पेटेल आयाळ, आवरतं घे
 भाजेल शेपूट, संभाळून ने
 चल रे माझ्या सिंहा, जरा नमतं घे
 
 या जळत्या वर्तुळातून उडी मारून जा
 आरपार
 इकडून तिकडे
 नि पुनः तिकडून इकडे
 
 ही शून्याकार आग, ही जळती मोकळीक
 रोजचीच आहे
 ही सर्वस्वी सर्कस तुझीच आहे
 
 
 
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