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Uncut Poetry

Sunil Bhandari is a poet by compulsion. He says he survives in this world because he can get to write poetry. This podcast is of his poetry.

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03:52

An Epitaph Made of Light & Air

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2021/02/06

An Epitaph Made of Light & Air I want to drift out of this world. Maybe a Cohen playlist in the background, or even better, someone reciting my favourite Mary Olivers. Let there not be pain, I pray, and let there be a sense of reconciliation, of everything being the way it was meant to be, to everything being left the way it was meant to be. Someone would crack a joke that I was always fond of the unfamiliar and this, my final foray into a mystery. And I would wonder what it would be like to

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04:01

Sipping Tea in a Rumi Morning

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2021/01/30

I have so often sat down to write poetry, and all that I actually wanted to do was to sit quietly and do nothing. Sipping tea, getting into my routine, crossing a street, looking out of a window, untangling a small problem, pointing out something beautiful to a loved one.....as I sat on the edge of an evening, and watched a bird delirious in its abandonment and random flight, I knew - even an unwritten moment could be a poem. And our life is full of poetry, if only we open ourselves to it. This

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03:44

The Ageing of Love

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2021/01/23

Years go by in relationships, and sometimes we feel that this is the nook where we fit in perfectly, and then suddenly we are left bereft of an anchor to latch onto or a bank to rest our boat against. Why is there never unalloyed comfort even in a relationship of many years? Maybe that is the way the universe ensures we don't take anything for granted. Maybe that is the way we get to know that love with a little tension attached to it ensures longevity rather than the lugubrious version of love

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20:39

When We Were One With The Stars

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2021/01/16

"Heaven is above and I know where I am, At the corner of the interstate, I couldn't let you go, I could not let go yet." I have just collaborated with Alma Roxx in their new single "Interstate (when we were one with the stars)". My poem is embedded into this song. Alma Roxx is the brainchild of Oregon based producer/songwriter Renny Currin. Often times a genre bending sound, Roxx delivers infectious melodies married with sensitive lyrics. Ryan Minor states in his Bottle Conjuror music blog that

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05:26

A Love Poem to an Office

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2021/01/09

People who don't know me are surprised that I don't sleep with a blanket of moonlight and a pillow full of stars. But I have a day-life and it's in an office. And it's a place which has consumed a large part of my life - and, alas, is rarely acknowledged by me in my poetry. Even though it has given me a livelihood and a distinct place in the world. So I decided to make amends. Today's poem is a love song to my office. I am Sunil Bhandari. I am a poet based in India. My book of poetry 'Of Love

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03:41

Rediscovering the Flawed Beauty of Love

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2021/01/02

One of the abiding tragedies of love is the lack of breathing space between lovers. The freedom they experienced, and which brought them together to begin with, suddenly switches into ownership and expectations which can never ever match with what is ordinarily possible. People, more often than not, don't drift apart, they merely suck the oxygen from around the very person they fell in love with, because she was free. Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. Sunil Bhandari is a poet

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04:31

Let Them Bring Any Year

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2020/12/26

"She knows love, / because love was an answer / sheared of every question / unburdened with doubt, / unremarkable as fact." As we come to the close of an extraordinary year, and wait for its end, we hope there would finally be a pause to the disruption of lives, families, places, things, routines. But when has the drama of life ever ended? And as someone I love dearly struggles, I turn again and again to poetry. In reading it, in writing it, to seek forbearance, to resolve reasons, to look back

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05:05

My Little Zen Warrior

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2020/12/19

"Once, on Sundays, as I read the papers, I saw a sunbeam make its way to her, and her hair was suddenly aflame like a fuzzy halo, as she lay on the carpet, her face cupped in her palms, lost in the world of wizards - and the sun helplessly putting the spotlight on her, for the universe to gaze at her, and no one else." In Pema Chadron's exquisite and heartfull book "When Things Fall Apart" she says - "You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather." This poem is about how children

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03:36

Kripa (a blessing from a daughter)

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2020/12/12

"I sit on the edge of the evening, as I allow you to find your way: the sea is low and I want you to know what it is to tread the skies." Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. Sunil Bhandari is a poet based out of India. His book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. His second book 'Of journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost' is just out. Both are available in Kindle on Amazon. Sunil is on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.

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04:54

Indian Summers

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2020/12/05

Summer, of all seasons, is the one which brings us human beings into our most elemental state - frank, often ugly, always true. We indulge and never regret; we forgive and we mean it. We know that what happens to us, is what we do onto others. And in that strange steaming symbiosis lies the powerlessness of our appetites - we are what the air makes us - not good or bad - just stripped of everything, naked, true - and for once not ashamed, and for once refusing to be shamed. Summer is a

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03:47

Seasons as Consultations to Life

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2020/11/28

I am amazed how we pass our lives through the magnificence of seasons, and how we change with them, as if they were our partners on a road to nowhere, somewhere.. . Summer, winter, autumn, all come and go, as witnesses to our peculiarities, our small concerns, our happinesses which seem as tenous as sundrops , as also our sadnesses which seem to fill the universe... But we just need to be open to their messages, to their careful power and their sensitive tellings - and we will see them as

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04:41

The Girl Who Could Lose Everything For Hope

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2020/11/21

Hope is a strange beast. It is sometimes the only false note in our lives, and paradoxically - or because of that - is also the slender thread which keeps us alive to possibilities of life. Little things take on meaning - little actions, little thoughts - nothing seems untoward or wasted. Those who are too hopeful, are called foolish, sometimes foolish optimists. But when something is a lifeline and gives meaning, how can that be bad. Being foolish is a choice so many are willing to make

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04:50

Love (then) Is Also Patience

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2020/11/15

There are two facts. One. Life is full of the unexpected. Two. It is long. These two facts are often forgotten when a couple mulls its differences. One of the abiding tragedies of relationships is when couples don't give each other's differences the space and time they deserve. But sharp edges find their corners smoothened with time; habits which were irritating become funny in nostalgia; wars become battles become skirmishes become peace summits with resolutions and amity. Two people brought

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03:42

How She Knew (that he was unfaithful)

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2020/11/07

"Why do we cheat? And why do happy people cheat? And when we say "infidelity," what exactly do we mean? Is it a hookup, a love story, paid sex, a chat room, a massage with a happy ending? Why do we think that men cheat out of boredom and fear of intimacy, but women cheat out of loneliness and hunger for intimacy? And is an affair always the end of a relationship? "But as perpetrators have often said - it isn't always our partner that we are turning away from, but the person that we have ourselves

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04:10

In Which He Cries. And She Clears The Skies.

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2020/10/31

Coupledom is a nation by itself, with its own laws, thermodynamics and compulsions of chemistry. At every moment of a couple's existence, the dynamics with each other swing and change - and if each of them are sensitive and aware, they give into the necessity to be the one who leads at one point and be the one who follows in the other. And if one of them knows the address of scars and the other knows how to clear the skies, it's then a couple made in heaven.... Uncut Poetry is brought to you by

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06:21

Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can't Keep My Legs...

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2020/10/24

Louise Gluck, the 2020 Nobel Prize winner, wrote a poem called 'The Encounter' - You came to the side of the bed and sat staring at me. Then you kissed me-I felt hot wax on my forehead. I wanted it to leave a mark: that’s how I knew I loved you. Because I wanted to be burned, stamped, to have something in the end... My poem today follows the end which Louise Gluck talked about.

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02:38

She's a Fierce One, My One

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2020/10/17

When we are loved and cared for, we should be ready to fight, being fought for or being fought with. Often, our definition of what is right and wrong has to be put away, and we have to battle for what's ours and what's right. And if we are injured, as the one for whom the battle took place, or because we were on the other side, we must then know that some battles which are fought with us are often the ones which would also save us. Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. Sunil

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04:08

I Should Have Loved More Wisely (They Say)

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2020/10/10

Happiness is found in extraordinary places. The two who don't seem to ever match with each other, become the matchless couple. And The ones who tick every box, are the ones who find different paths and partners. The alchemy of relationships is only a small-part nature and a large-part mystery. But what is irrefutable to what lasts long - is the trouble each partner takes to figure out what hurts and what brings love. Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. Sunil Bhandari is a poet based

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03:37

That Gorgeous Evening When You Left

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2020/10/03

Relationships always have departures. Temporary, permanent, simple, or heart-breaking. Inherent in such partings is the inevitability of our heart's decisions. Sometimes it hurts - but there is a good which lies just beyond the realm of hurt. And in that realm, a person departs, but love doesn't. The gorgeous music in this episode is by Sayan Mukerji. Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari. Sunil Bhandari is a poet based out of India. His book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments'

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04:20

I Surrender To That Feeling Again

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2020/09/26

Surrender is a strange word. It first and foremost denotes defeat. But couched in its shame are also intimations of survival, a love of life over demise, of abiding hope. But, ironically, in love, surrender is the first prerequisite - it is love's entry point, the only way to live it's tumult, and survive it's caprice.

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