About the Doctor- Poet of India
Dr.A.Celestine Raj Manohar M.D., PEN-NAME: dr john celes was born on Valentine’s Day of 1957 at Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, INDIA , the eighth child of a well-educated, Roman Catholic family. His father Shri A.T.Antoniswami M.A.L.T., was an excellent school-teacher and a man of great learning, disciplinarian, principles and fortitude. His mother Stella was fairly educated and was able to do both the house-hold chores as well as help the children in their studies.
Dr john celes received the best English medium education at Carmel Garden Matriculation School, Coimbatore, where he was born and became a Doctor, finishing his M.B.,B.S., at Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore in 1979 and a Physician by passing M.D.(General Medicine) in 1989 in the same college. His most cherished dream being a Medical Teacher, the poet joined PSGIMS&R, CBE where he worked for nearly seven years. Presently, he is a Professor of Medicine and Head Of the Department / Chief, Medical Unit I and Physician in IRT Perundurai Medical College and Research Center and Hospital, Perundurai, ERODE-638053, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.
A versatile person interested in academic and many extra-curricular activities like music, games, elocution, essay-writing and short-story-writing etc, the Poet took to writing English Poetry serendipitously and suddenly since May eleventh, 1998, exactly coinciding with the Pokhran II Blasts of India. He started off with his ‘Auto-biography’ in an epic form of heroic couplets first that ran into a few thousand lines(Incomplete). He loved to write on any topic under the Sun and many genres.
His maiden anthology of just seventeen good poems was released on Valentine’s Day, 2-14-1999 in the Medical College where he worked while a second booklet was released again on 5-11-1999, the First Anniversary of India’s Pokhran II Blasts(India’s Resurgent Day).Though poetry was only his avocation, he has been writing it rather rapidly and voluminously as he found all the essential factors for goading a Muse to enter a writing spree, continually operative in the place where he worked.
He has been rendering his poems and even singing some of them to elite audience whenever he could. He wrote the Alma mater Song for the Medical College where he works. Not a function was held that never had the Poetry of dr john celes in it. He even instituted a small Rolling Trophy for English Poetry by Medical Students of the same college. He has participated in a number of Poetry competitions till date and went on-line to submit his many poems at the following websites: www.poemhunter.com ; www.poettext.com ; www.ndtv.com poetry corner and also at www.poetry.com . He has published the world’s highest number of Sonnets on-line of the Shakespearean type and hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records soon and eventually receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. His Poetry could one day become a ‘Turning point in his career’!
According to dr john celes: God inspires, The Poet perspires, And the poem transpires.
The more a poet scribbles, the better the poems out come.
Poets can make this world a little Heaven!
Poetry is a gift from God, given to a chosen few souls on earth rarely!
Dr.A.Celestine Raj Manohar M.D., PEN-NAME: dr john celes was born on Valentine’s Day of 1957 at Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, INDIA , the eighth child of a well-educated, Roman Catholic family. His father Shri A.T.Antoniswami M.A.L.T., was an excellent school-teacher and a man of great learning, disciplinarian, principles and fortitude. His mother Stella was fairly educated and was able to do both the house-hold chores as well as help the children in their studies.
Dr john celes received the best English medium education at Carmel Garden Matriculation School, Coimbatore, where he was born and became a Doctor, finishing his M.B.,B.S., at Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore in 1979 and a Physician by passing M.D.(General Medicine) in 1989 in the same college. His most cherished dream being a Medical Teacher, the poet joined PSGIMS&R, CBE where he worked for nearly seven years. Presently, he is a Professor of Medicine and Head Of the Department / Chief, Medical Unit I and Physician in IRT Perundurai Medical College and Research Center and Hospital, Perundurai, ERODE-638053, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.
A versatile person interested in academic and many extra-curricular activities like music, games, elocution, essay-writing and short-story-writing etc, the Poet took to writing English Poetry serendipitously and suddenly since May eleventh, 1998, exactly coinciding with the Pokhran II Blasts of India. He started off with his ‘Auto-biography’ in an epic form of heroic couplets first that ran into a few thousand lines(Incomplete). He loved to write on any topic under the Sun and many genres.
His maiden anthology of just seventeen good poems was released on Valentine’s Day, 2-14-1999 in the Medical College where he worked while a second booklet was released again on 5-11-1999, the First Anniversary of India’s Pokhran II Blasts(India’s Resurgent Day).Though poetry was only his avocation, he has been writing it rather rapidly and voluminously as he found all the essential factors for goading a Muse to enter a writing spree, continually operative in the place where he worked.
He has been rendering his poems and even singing some of them to elite audience whenever he could. He wrote the Alma mater Song for the Medical College where he works. Not a function was held that never had the Poetry of dr john celes in it. He even instituted a small Rolling Trophy for English Poetry by Medical Students of the same college. He has participated in a number of Poetry competitions till date and went on-line to submit his many poems at the following websites: www.poemhunter.com ; www.poettext.com ; www.ndtv.com poetry corner and also at www.poetry.com . He has published the world’s highest number of Sonnets on-line of the Shakespearean type and hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records soon and eventually receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. His Poetry could one day become a ‘Turning point in his career’!
According to dr john celes: God inspires, The Poet perspires, And the poem transpires.
The more a poet scribbles, the better the poems out come.
Poets can make this world a little Heaven!
Poetry is a gift from God, given to a chosen few souls on earth rarely!
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Dr John Celes on August 7, 2006Wow!What a band of healers you belong to!
You too b'cos Music can heal.
You can read all my poems at www.poemhunter.com
under the pen-name:"dr john celes"
Nice to know you, Mayank
Any profession is good, lucrative and dignified and charitable.As Milton says in his sonnet, even the ones who stand, serve the Lord!
And thank you so much. -
The Anonymous on August 7, 2006Sir,
Thank you for appreciating my song. My dad is also a General Physician, MD(Medicine), and this profession happens to run in the family. My mom is a gynaecologist and obstetrician, my elder brother(24)is a 2nd yr. MS(General Surgery) Post-Graduate Student in MAMC (New Delhi) and I'm an Intern (BDS).
Just to let loose the intellect that runs in my family, I chosed Music (Genre: Rock). I'm a proud songwriter/writer/poet and I'll hopefully start a new band in a yr. or so (I'd a band in the past but it lasted in a month, thanks to our profession).
Its always nice to see a doctor writing off his pains, his laughter, his life..My dad has a huge thing for Ghazals and Shayari and maybe my writing abilities are just another example of genes and hereditary.
Its been sure nice seeing your comment on my song.
Regards,
Mayank. -
Dr John Celes on May 29, 2006Thanks Renee.
That was extremely kind of you to do so.God bless you too.
I had a wonderful Lenten season with more than thirty divine sonnets written during that time.You can read them at Kavitanjali.com under blogger.com ModernSonnets
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poetryality on May 23, 2006Had you on my mind again today and decided to come by and wish you well my friend. I hope you are doubly blessed today.
Much Love,
Renee
