Bodies Reverised

A rivrer……

Born anew on the earth

Springing out from the clefts

Gurgling to the frontiers of earth and sky

The breeze humming afresh

Nigh lingering for a new language

Clambering onto the dreams

Night’s eyes weary out

New script

New dream

New river

Minutes in search of synonyms

Slumber carried away

In a hooded cart

Tired earth

 canopied with mushrooms

Two liquiscent bodies

In the horizon

The brooks running to eternity

Two breaths…

Melting into ragas,

Reign the night

Jus two spectators

Night steals a look

Night drags on

Dawn stalled

Even the sun sleeps.

                                                                                                Telugu: Digantamlo Nadi

                                                                                                         English: K.S.P.Roy

MY SOUL

Like a warm hand
on my weary shoulder
you came close to me .

In a dreamless night
you became a balmy poem.
For days sans a wrap
you have given a shape.
Shielding a heroic poet
you infused inspiration , imagination.
On a wounded body
you landed as a bird with healing touch .
Like spring that courted the earth
You are a multi- splendoured smile.
You became a butterfly
far beyond evolutionary dynamics.

You are the pollen of life with an amazing fusion of feelings on observing --- thorny plants, Caltrops, leeches that drained my blood in Nallavagu , nuances of songs composed on machans , tasty reeds and swinging ears of jowar corn .

For a sharpened chisel like me
you are an abiding aspiration.
During the nights I slept
you softly spread as tender youth .
Across contemplative tamarind tree
you are my sap green future
painted by nature .

You are my soul who
showed me what I am
placing me before a mirror.

You are a loving lightning
seen in the wrinkles of my mother's face .
Like my father's humming tune
ringing in ears,
you glided into my inner core.

So much compassion
So much love
So much warmth you shower!

The moment you stepped
into threshold of my life
stretching your right foot
I shuddered with a singular self-confidence.

With the sense you lent
to dreams blooming in my heart
I have become a poet !

[Translated from Telugu by T.S.Chandra Mouli & B.B.Sarojini from the volume Sarihaddurekha , 2002,poem titled KuDi Kaalu,p-14-15]

follow this link for my poem in "The Shared Mirror"

http://roundtableindia.co.in/lit-blogs/blog/2010/05/06/awwal-kalima/