YELLOWSTONE
-V.Vijaya Kumar
Telugu Original-Dr K.Geeta
You’re Seven Colored Raga
Why were you known mere Yellowstone unknown!
Where ever touched your body
Surging flames from inner depths
Bursting smokes and fumes
Thrusting of boiling bubbles
Where ever seen
Ages of agony hidden inside
Surging of seven shades of suffering passion
Welled up in crystal clarity
Where ever seen
Thousand tongues of airy snakes shot up to sky
Through the womb of the earth
Uproars of high pitched sounds
Of Sulphuric waters with rancid stench
Yet
It’s Yellowstone!
When I see you I love you to hug passionately
The mystic exquisite beauty
Incapable of encasing in two hands
Can’t help it except hanged to eyes
Though I wished to caress
Those cheeky bubbles with hotty warmth
What can I do
Except capturing in pictures
Your inner deep voice
In which I can’t plunge into
On the other side
The memory that shivered the body
Undulating on those ferocious waves
Your frozen chilling snow pond
Just in no time
Fall of torrents of cascading water
In meticulous speed of an arrow
Burst upon the scene
Through the meeting points of horizon
Though wondered where to nowhere
Except the missing beat of heart
Nothing there
When cherished
Those strange horripilate quagmires
Except the heart
Yellowstone! Yellowstone!!
Why did you hurt me
By biting like a spotted mosquito?
Why did you make me suffer from fever
When I came to you like an infant?
Yet I am not angry at you
Or hatred upon you
As You’re like me,
Nope, Me too like You
Everything lay open
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A post graduate in English literature and language and in Economics. A few of my translations were published. I translated the poems of Dr. Andesri , Denchanala, Ayila Saida Chary and Urmila from Telugu to English. I write articles and reviews to magazines and news papers. To the field of poetry I am rather a new face.