Walking on the edge of a river
English Translation – Swathi Sreepada
Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi
4. The impression of an ocean
When the earth covered itself completely With a cloth of water?
Is it required to explain the beauty of water? As the creatures living as water dependents All the oceans are same, but
Water lines are drawn by us.
Dividing them with varied names
Those who want to rule the water kingdom How can they understand
The future dreams of water?
Let any shore be touched,
The same anguish of waves
Let any wave be gazed,
An uncontrolled disturbance
As if sunlight drained into palms
As if spread the milky moonlight
In the mind
As if the entire body had
The water clouds of peacock feathers
How many scenes of proud oceans can we capture?
How many signs of the roar of the sea Can we multiply?
Man, kneeling before
The infinite treasure of water
Always remains in the size of a little finger In front of nature
Mother soil in bluish green
Nothing but an infant sleeping
on a banyan leaf.
Disturbing the magnificent ocean Piercing oil wombs with crowbar machines For the shattered pieces of
Ancient civilization
For the treasures slipped out from the hands of ancestors
For aquatic creatures under the ocean Even if conflagrations were kindled In the heart of water treasure
It always saves ..protects as a mother.
Now and then, though threatens as annoyed
Even in listlessness
Never think to put forth a step
Forgetting the absolute fact that
Forever the basis of the soil
You are standing on
Is the ocean,
If I want to control,
On some shore it runs as a terrorist.
In this Atlantic Ocean also
A vast wave touched my feet
And greeted me
It might have arrived from my village palace For me this far.
Wherever I watch the sea
I feel as if I am shaking my hands With the deep of my village ..Because My outer and inner impressions of ocean Are united by this water rule only.
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డా||సి.భవానీదేవి నివాసం హైదరాబాదు. ప్రముఖ సాహితీవేత్త, బహుముఖ ప్రజ్ఞాశాలి. ఆంధ్ర విశ్వవిద్యాలయం నుండి హిందీలో ఎం.ఎ., ఉస్మానియా విశ్వవిద్యాలయం నుండి తెలుగులో ఎం.ఎ, ఎల్.ఎల్.బి., పి.హెచ్.డి. పట్టాలు పొందారు. కవిత్వం, కథలు, సాహితీ విమర్శ, నాటకం, బాలసాహిత్యం, జీవితచరిత్ర, లలితగీతాలు మొదలైన అన్ని ప్రక్రియలలో రచనలు చేసారు. ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ప్రభుత్వ విశ్రాంత ఉప కార్యదర్శి. 12 కవితా సంపుటులు, వివిధ ప్రక్రియల్లో 46 గ్రంథాలు వెలువరించారు. వీరి పలు కవితలు, కథలు అనేక ఇతర భాషల్లోకి అనువదించబడ్డాయి.