Tempest of time (poems) -Kondapalli Niharini Translated by Elanaaga 6.Special Soldier He is a picture of opulence on the retina; a sacred figure without many hues. He won many a million hearts. Wherever his sweat falls, there germinates mother’s love, blesses. In the nights and afternoons when mud blossoms, at a time when the branches […]
Continue ReadingDeath Warrants (poem) Telugu Original: Mandarapu Hymavati EnglishTranslation: Syamala Kallury An endless joy it is After the head-bath, washing the hair For some the body feels comfortable Moves freely in the swing For some the head-bath itself is A ritual, that sends one to lands More comfortable, then it is an explosion! Yes, Hunger is […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-15 Only After Knowing the Script Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada It is only in a real anguish filled script That I look at myself That I know myself Whenever an ache twisted itself in me That when blow after blow hit, Life lost lustre like […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 7. Mankena Flower Caught in bramble and thorn I am a struggling palapitta** Whichever way I move The thorns prick me These are not thorns of today But shackles of slavery That have bound me for generations. Caught between the devil and the deep sea Danger hisses about […]
Continue ReadingLet me be ME -Manjeetha Kumar Let me write Let me muse Let me be ME Just me for me I am a Girl Not a Caged bird To obey commands To just live a living Let me be free Let me feel the breeze Till my heart stops beating Till my soul feels soothing […]
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The City of my Life -Nagaraju Ramaswamy The songs are deep; multi-layered; word over word; A trilogy of memoirs; diffused lines; page over page. Hyderabad is the book of my life. Today I tread the streets; my gazes gauge the tides’ crests and ebbs my thoughts […]
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Tempest of time (poems) -Kondapalli Niharini Translated by Elanaaga 5.Osmania, the Glowing Lamp Always, I throw a couple of old dreams in front of me. When searching for similarities, Osmania emits the echoes of peace songs and those of valour from its rocky walls. Conceiving spirit, shaping expression it keeps filling the voids of my […]
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Bruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 6. Untouchable Assault This is ‘untouchable Sunitha’ speaking: From long ago ― Forgotten by you all In this country, just as there is ― untouchable hunger untouchable exploitation, untouchable suicides untouchable rape too exists. I swear by my love for Yogeswar Reddy That mine is certainly an Untouchable […]
Continue ReadingThe Soldier’s Mother -Mohan Das The phone was ringing and it was a regular feature Calling Doctor Parimala, disturbing her short leisure ! This time it was not for her treatment to a person suffering But to injure her with saddest news causing herself suffer ! It was from Army […]
Continue ReadingI wanna walk… -Jhansi Koppisetty I was flying like an angel.. But a great fall broke my ankle..! Till then I was fulfilling everyone's wishes.. Had to wake up to my senses with all the stitches..! Ankle broke three ways.. Added bonus dislocation sideways..! Plates and screws were all used.. Doctors pinned and stapled bones […]
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Peacock of the Rain (poem) Telugu Original: Mandarapu Hymavati EnglishTranslation: Syamala Kallury As when a poem that has not taken shape In the mind since long, emerges suddenly Opening the fan of raindrops, The peacock of the rain, breaks into a dance. As when some unseen goddesses Rain jasmines with cupped hands, Like the pearls […]
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Walking on the edge of a river-17 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 17. Again mother The home without you Its like a burning globe in the vacuum From the coffee filter welcoming in the morning To the good night the lights in the night Everything searches for you […]
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Poems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-14 Curses or Gifts Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada True! That men seek change True that flowing stream of time Courses into million channels Inviting ever newer shapes And astonishes us again and again Also, true From the earth to the sky And the sky to […]
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Neem tree murder -Kandepi Rani Prasad Gives a flower to every Ugadi Neem tree of my house was cut down In time to brush your teeth in the morning Bending the branches improves health Subhakrit Ugadi gave me agony They killed my golden neem tree Cut into pieces with a […]
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Distress English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Dukhapu Minnagu” by Dr K.Geeta A viper lurking beneath life Unaware whenever it wakes up Nor slithers away no one knows Yet when it blows out It spews out The remnant hushed up woes Though slept under […]
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Sedative Serenity – Ramalakshmi Avasarala As I closed my eyes, I perceived the perpetual woods, Where the sound is dumb, Where even the taciturn, Searches curiously for words. Where only faint rustle of leaves, Enunciate the presence of life, Moonlight laying in patches that’s busy in […]
Continue ReadingTempest of time (poems) -Kondapalli Niharini Translated by Elanaaga Translator’s Note I have been trying to take some good Telugu literature into English for a long. In that process, I translated the stories of VattikotaAlwaruSwamy, Dasarathi Krishnamacharya, andKalojiNarayanaRao. Besides rendering such good fiction, I translated modern poetry as well. However, […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 5. Explosion Though every cell craves for sanctity of a filled pot incessant blasts only embrace me. My only desire to live like a pure, new born person innocently like a faint green sprout ― the concrete diplomacy that piled up around freezes it by the day. To […]
Continue ReadingOn the Morning It Rained (poem) Telugu Original: Mandarapu Hymavati EnglishTranslation: Syamala Kallury Early morning With sleepy eyes As soon as I come to the front door Lo, a wonderful visual poem I see That mesmerises the mind The hurried jobs of morning, job-related Drudgery of house and kitchen work forgotten, Relaxing in the green […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-16 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 16. A river means a stream A river means a stream only Anywhere that sounds like this only Scrubbing the stones and tuning them To understand the singing music of the river That sort of wetness […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-13 Then -Afterwards Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada Then this sorrow all at once wetting and chasing my heart like a spring fixed me in a net otherwise with dew drops fallen amidst leaves with a heart playfully bathing in a pond with tender glances caught […]
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Bhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-29 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 29.Birth I watch this sky and these waves just before dawn— A bow like branch of tree if bent at one end, springs up the other side way lost at dusk searches dawn. Not everywhere is bright nor all is […]
Continue ReadingOh my Gold… English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Bangaramanti” by Dr K.Geeta Shh…Baby! Don’t disturb Dad Let him sweat toiling on Meetings and chattings The Herculean tasks At home Morning a cup of coffee A fistful breakfast A meal in lunch time Some […]
Continue ReadingTempest of time (poems) -Kondapalli Niharini Translated by Elanaaga I Go Along with Time Has my observation of society increased since poetry writing became a fond habit for me?I am unable to tell whether I am turning myself into poesy only from the observation of society. Yet I have no habit […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 4. Prohibited Dream My memory does not carry Colourful dreams that converse with my eyelids. In my dream, someone chases me, Always, as I keep running Insecure And towards an unknown destiny. In fact, life too is like a dream! I bundle up my identity and toss it […]
Continue ReadingOnce in a Month (poem) Telugu Original: Mandarapu Hymavati EnglishTranslation: Syamala Kallury The permanent address for my ATM card is always my husband’s pocket I forgot the pin numbers long time back Like the memory of ancient life In the days when the salary was Given in hand One day at least The salary baby […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-15 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 15.The wet land of spring Though I forgot to tell my address Spring rushed as a stream of happiness Raised to its head with crores of desires The baskets of new whims and fancies Spread on […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-12 The Torn Emerald Canvas Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Raamateertha Perching on the yonder hill side greenery As if busy composing music to a new song, With awakening roulades, Those birds becoming musical organs, In pairs drenching in the snow ‘Mushaira’ Used to fill my morning walk […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-28 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 28.Highway As one writes on sea having become a sea as one walks on rivers having become a river which boat should I board on Godavari highway? What I saw was a mature lady like new water as I lay […]
Continue ReadingThe house without your presence English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Nuvvu leni Illu” by Dr K.Geeta The house without your presence Sobered by evening Ears stick out attentive to receive When will be the garage opens And when your footsteps audible from office […]
Continue ReadingTempest of time (poems) -Kondapalli Niharini Translated by Elanaaga Lustre of Erudition Surrounds Her If people born in a family of great tradition hold the flag of defiance, it causes some surprise. If they follow the same path of rationalism and struggle throughout their life without retreating to the destination, it […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 3. Water Just as water knows the ground’s incline, It knows the generations-old strife Between village and wada Like dampness on the well’s edge that never dries, It knows that untouchability never disappears. Water knows everything. It knows race The difference between the woman from Samaria and Jesus, […]
Continue ReadingHorsely Hills (poem) Telugu Original: Mandarapu Hymavati EnglishTranslation: Syamala Kallury Like a Hurricane lantern Hung to the hook of the sky Slowly climbing the ladder of the Peaks of mountains, the morning Sun Like the bright red hibiscus Like a yellow chrysanthemum Like a fully blossomed jasmine This Lotus lover Is cool handsome god of […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-14 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 14.The island of tears Leaving forever born and brought up country Changing the names of the roots of ancestors Packing the heap of dreams Migrating to a distant country To any anyone…at anytime Is nothing but […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-11 Childhood Shared witha Babe Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju To have a glimpse of the new-born On our invitation You all come flying and land here like beaming butterflies – Moving freely with teeny weeny guests We embellish the evening superlatively. And elaborate the string […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-27 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 27.Marina Beach Marina beach, Marina beach how beautiful you are how many people are cajoled in your lap and charmed by you, falling in love with you as we walked to see you the coach we came by left leaving […]
Continue ReadingTempest of time (poems) -Kondapalli Niharini Translated by Elanaaga ‘A preview ‘ Poetry mirrors life. It’s a true reflection of life in discernible hues. Therefore, it is aptly said that poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash(Leonard Cohen). Covid-19 pandemic […]
Continue ReadingIn the Desert sans words (poems) Telugu Original: Mandarapu Hymavati EnglishTranslation: Syamala Kallury After a day of stressful pressures, many and varied After I return home on lifeless evenings Like a dried branch of Amaranthus I intend to lean on your shoulder and rest Washing my limbs in the still waters of a quiet pond […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 2. An Ethnic Dream The criss-crossed entangled forest seemsTo have gathered its hair neatly into a knot.Swallowed by a corporate whaleThat spits them out in the centre of Shilparamam*Small huts in deep sleep amidst green treesAppear doll houses with lime patternsAlluring. Nose studs, beaded necklaces, mirror blouses ofThe […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-10 Melody of Open Wing Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju The reverie stretches long-like an ocean unbound, The sight is far ahead by one century full The waves of Tanpura deep down the throat Shake and dance to unsettle the spinal beads The burning spark of […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-13 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 13.Unknown Not only the people here Even trees and flowers are unknown Water and Fire, wind and sky with soil We feel, are the same everywhere But Here in water cold fire kindles Even sunlight also […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-26 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 26.Visakha! Oh my Visakha! You are a city like a hut beneath a hill What is so special about you Visakha to stay with you? Except Surya Sikha’ room in R.S.Hostel where we stayed what is so great about you? […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani 1.Rain Rain means Memories – Flying termites That shed their wings from The wet anthills of the mind Rain means A paper boat that I fasten To plunge into the pond of infancy When I look at this rain I remember my damp thatched house That woke us […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-14 Only After Knowing the Script Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada It is only in a real anguish filled script That I look at myself That I know myself Whenever an ache twisted itself in me That when blow after blow hit, Life lost lustre like […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-12 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 12. Silent brightness Green color We recall the leaves but I realized only when I read the nature book here The trees decorate on their entire body That So many hues of colors And fills their […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-25 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 25. Wild Dance of Waves When visiting sea at Kothapatnam won’t new thought germinate? No wonder when Koteswar Rao’s car halts at Kothapatnam is it a horse to swim in sea ? Those that land from car compose poetry but […]
Continue ReadingGift of Mom English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Amma Bahumati” by Dr K.Geeta Oh, my sweetheart! Walking away from infancy Now flourished into a mature girl! I just bless you on your 18th B’day With my ever-longing spirit Of letters of my […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani ‘ Memory as an Ideology ‘ Challapalli Swaroopa Rani uses memory not only as a technique but also as an ideology. Her selective memory carefully constructs the people and the milestones in her life and collates this personal memory with her memory of […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-13 Curses or Gifts Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada True! That men seek change True that flowing stream of time Courses into million channels Inviting ever newer shapes And astonishes us again and again Also, true From the earth to the sky And the sky to […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-11 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 11. A light of letters When wanted to bloom as a flower Mind was caught in the fences of thorns When wished to give as a gift of love Mind became a sacrifice to the world […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-24 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 24. Marine Congregation Oh my Visakha Sea! To extend to the sky how long you did tapasya,meditation like a maharshi? Absorbing great rivers of processions frighteningly massive public meeting today. But for enormous depth, immense capability, total transformation, how can […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani ‘ THE PAIN OF BEING A PART APART ‘ This collection of 35 poems written by Prof Challapalli Swaroopa Rani now translated in to English, are eye-openers into the unspeakable experiences of Dalits not only in Andhra but all over India. These poems […]
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Nothing like a so-called failure -Sri sreya kurella They speak a lot When you are at the lowest point of your life. They comment a lot about your past actions,And try to form the reasons for the pain you are facing, They try to depress you with their words,To make you feel low at the hardest phase of […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-10 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 10. My mother used to be there…… My mother used to be black in colour But she had a cool mind My mother had long hair But still always moved with knotted hair My mother used […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-12 Then -Afterwards Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada Then this sorrow all at once wetting and chasing my heart like a spring fixed me in a net otherwise with dew drops fallen amidst leaves with a heart playfully bathing in a pond with tender glances caught […]
Continue ReadingAfter meeting my childhood friend English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Chinnanati Mitruralni Chuseka” by Dr K.Geeta Meeting childhood friend After a long time I recalled those carefree dragonfly days Slept happily tucked in bed Closed under blanket overhead Whenever wished, how long […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-23 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 23. River Bhima Placidly flows like blood in arteries Bhima river, a perennial river till the other day that was like a snake that shed skin crawls like an earth worm today. Where is water for oars to steer a […]
Continue ReadingBruised, but not Broken (poems) -Challapalli Swarooparani My Word By and large the feminist movement in India has been about patriarchal oppression, experienced by dominant castes and middle class educated/urban women – gender discrimination: unequal man-woman relationships; undemocratic family system; burden of child-rearing and hardship of domestic chores as women […]
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Dayee-Papayee English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Dayee-Papayee” by Dr K.Geeta Both of them Live in their world as if they have just emerged Like a baby garden lizard clutches the trunk of a tree That kid always hangs on Dayee For baby […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-11 Childhood Shared with a Babe Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Raamateertha To have a glimpse of the new-born On our invitation You all come flying and land here like beaming butterflies – Moving freely with teeny weeny guests We embellish the evening superlatively. And elaborate the string […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-9 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 9. Value For what this earning Losing the life For only caterings and interior decorations With vast palaces … pubs…raves Whom to capture spreading a net and how long? Have we remembered what we ate yesterday? […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-22 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 22.My Man Green shoots sprout on earth rain dances down from sky sprouts never look at heavens drops of rain reach not earth. East and west never meet not known why friends turn into foes for feuding groups in legislature […]
Continue ReadingLITTLE PUPPY -Kandepi Rani Prasad “Little Puppy ! Little Puppy ! Where have you been ? “ “I have been to Ramoji Film city “ “What have you seen in Ramoji Film City ?” “I have seen film shootings there. “ “What have you done after Seeing the shootings ?” […]
Continue ReadingFour-legged room English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Nalugu Kalla Gadi” by Dr K.Geeta A four-legged room around me Displayed scenes after scenes Setting sun gulping rocks Heavy rain never smacks Series of retreating trees Scorching summers turned cool breezing sprees Shivering colds […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-8 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 8. Ash From the word bullets targeted at night Wind slowly sprouts It dawns very soon A desire to write a happy poem As if a thorn pierced into the pen Isn’t it the poetry to […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-10 Melody of Open Wing Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju The reverie stretches long-like an ocean unbound, The sight is far ahead by one century full The waves of Tanpura deep down the throat Shake and dance to unsettle the spinal beads The burning spark of […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-21 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 21.My Path I listen sleeping on this ground breathing the same air on ground inside earth so many reverberations nothing is clear. I am also advised to sleep blissfully in a trice earth covers me at once whirl wind wakes […]
Continue ReadingYESTERDAY – TODAY Singing -Kandepi Rani Prasad “Come chandamama ! come Jabillee !”When mother feeds riceChinni refuses to eat –“I don’t want Amma ! ““See there ! in the dark demon coming !”When says Amma“oh ! i am afraid !” saysAnd gulps down the rice at once…Chinni of Yesteryears. In the […]
Continue ReadingBaby’s Birthday -Kandepi Rani Prasad Parrots ! oh Parrots !Draping yourselves in green sareesPainting your beaks redCome to our house today !It’s our baby’s Birthday !Bless our golden girlWith your sweet words. Cuckoos ! Oh cuckoos !Drink warm black – peppered milkFill your voices with honey today !It’s our baby’s Birthday […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-20 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 20.Plateau Three fourths water one part land world map hangs on wall between many countries separating several continents water occupies as oceans and sea yet water problem became global issue. *** It is not about one part land about three […]
Continue ReadingThe Streaming Dawn English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Pravahinche Suryodayam” by Dr K.Geeta Received dawn you sent yesterday I’ll hand it over to you by tomorrow mornl Birds set out to a flight The lonesome jungle crow cawing hopefully- Something she’s reciprocated […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-9 Under the Shower of Honeyed Poetry Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju When the heart turns to a battleground When the battle itself is the essence of life The serial of aesthetic dreams split – Splintered fine dust of broken glass Liquid honey slides smooth on […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-7 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 7. A lonely mother-root Though we run endlessly Along the time indicator Who can have their own at the end? Hovered agony at the lonely end Behind the pretense of seriousness Grumbling and giving up In […]
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Eye opener Poem -Anuradha Bandi Flow with things, Be friendly with thoughts, Imagine people and scenarios. Flow with signs of love, live with emotions and Finally, Flow with ur feelings. Baby trace life as it is. In middle go through the interior of your heart and the exterior of your facts. sometimes you’re infant, you’ll […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-19 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 19. Snapped Strings Walking across a dry lake needs no magic. When it was brimming with water to stand on the island like land all swimmers competed. Where is it? Expansive lake like green fields where is it? A dry […]
Continue ReadingTHE SNOW BAT English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Manchu Gabbilam” by Dr K.Geeta In bone-biting cold In the sixth street dustbin lane Amidst the stack of carton pieces a wrapped shape in the husk Like the thoughts excruciating even in sleep jolts […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-8 Festoon of Lights in a Jingling Festival of Joy Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju Uninterrupted in my inner niches For ever in some corner or other A dancing Jingling Festoon of lights A constant Festival of Joy Enacts a play of life and letters! Would […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-6 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 6. Memory a piece Though we try to forget Some person…an incident Pains as the agony of life Not only the delicate feel of the grace of roses The experiences of piercing glass pieces too The […]
Continue ReadingWhen life is happening -Sri sreya kurella When life is happening just like I dreamt of,It happens…A big distraction,A big disaster,A big heartbreak,Which I can never believeThis happened to me,It takes a lot of time to digest the happening,It takes a lot of courage for my inner self to take a step,And this may happen […]
Continue ReadingMischievous Poem -Anuradha Bandi When I crawl into east,Sun starts walking.He smiled dramatically. When sky of East start changing shades accordingly to Sun,I suspected clouds may be falling in love. Colours varies like my mindset vary.So I visualize each in flow of life. Fixed programming of East to West isInteresting daily Drama for me,so that I live in […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-18 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 18. Rebecca To reach Manginapudi beach via Chilakalapudi if one starts from Bandar by bus sky becomes entrance of the home frolics standing on the way like a slant pot sea appears. Beauty— sea naughtiness— sea health— sea youthful life […]
Continue ReadingAGE OF MESSAGE English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Message Yugam” by Dr K.Geeta Our house-keeping girl’s arms and legs never keep idle She fills her belly with dust on the floor Spinning round and round The washerman of our house has no […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-5 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 5. A shade like a dream Someone comes And leaves Giving fragrance to the soul That within every cell Scents Someone sings Leaving a melodious tune They move forth That now and again Plays the strings […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-7 Reflections Do Not Talk Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju These are the fragrant smells of perfume Rained by a human shrub drop by drop. These are the thrills in an echoing breast Roused by whiffs of a scented feast. These are the tears of our […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-4 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 4. That girl If you are a bird I am your wing If you are an eye I am your dream If you are a heart I am its rhythm If you are an ocean […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-6 When I am Half-asleep Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam Like an iron in the furnace Thought keeps burning. Things around working like bellows Keep the scene aflame. Clouded realities In an expectant mood of faith Await the burning sun. Failing to release the truth, Word […]
Continue ReadingGARDEN -Kandepi Rani Prasad Jasmines, We the JasminesOur bodies whiteSymbol of peaceIn enchanting flower plaitsScents and fragrancesEquals to us, none China Roses ! We the China RosesOur bodies blood redSymbol of consciousnessGive grandeur even singlyTo temple deitiesNone, to compete with us. Chrysanthums ! We the ChrysanthumsOur bodies all yellowSymbol of auspiciousnessFor Festoons […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-17 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 17. Expansive Sheet of Water Stands undressed before me– I too am likewise– whether I adore or amalgamate but taste honey of experience. Just as the entire forest turns into a tree like disc of sun extending across the sky as […]
Continue ReadingThe Rhythm of Rail English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Railubandi Raagam” by Dr K.Geeta My childhood train still coos chuk…chuk When the sound heard the trails in me jolt and run Grandma! Tell me first not those princess fables But why does […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-5 The Convent Bus Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam With noisy activity the kids rush into the schoolhouse. Likewise little words hasten into my thought. Moments later they quietly stand in a row To say the prayer. Oh, the little ones do make such poetry! My […]
Continue ReadingMOM’S SHAWL English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Amma Saluva” by Dr K.Geeta Value multiplies in thousands when it gets lost We can’t redeem in life the value for negligence Though it has years elapsed since I left my home-town The warmth of […]
Continue Reading(FLOOD) OF TEARS STREAM -Kandepi Rani Prasad It’s not raining season evenWhere is thisFlood of water from?An ant askedAnother antEscaping from the flooding flow of waterAnswered the other Ant“There opened a new schoolIn this street yesterdayIt is the flow of tear dropsOf little onesBeaten by their teachers“ My god !It […]
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Into a broom, into a bucket of excrement…transformed..I Telugu Original : Jupaka Subhadra Because of the crime of my birth on this soil Because of the bad luck written on my forehead I am the childhood That is pulling a cart of garbage I am the barren land where The […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-3 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 3. The impression of ocean Is it required to explain the beauty of water When the earth covered itself completely With a cloth of water As the creatures depending on water All the oceans are […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-16 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 16.Wattles of Goats When Ganga surges no matted locks of barrages stand. After a heavy down pour slides on soil, rushes to reach ocean bed moves away beyond reach of anyone; gentlemen, strive not to turn back the drained water […]
Continue ReadingUNDRIFTED LAKE TAHOE English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Manchu Takani Lake Tahoe” by Dr K.Geeta As if the sky glued moonlight Patches and patches on land Everywhere the snow As if whole water on land pooled Into frozen snow The tips […]
Continue ReadingOut-of-Coverage Areas English Traslation: Pulikonda Subbachary Telugu Original : Jupaka Subhadra We ploughed the land And shared the food The sky danced in our palms Now, we are half the sky In that half, we are pushed Out-of-Coverage area We search Not knowing where we are Scorpions at home, snakes […]
Continue ReadingBhagiratha’s Bounty and Other poems-15 English Translation: T.S. Chandra Mouli Telugu Original : Kandukuri Sreeramulu 15.Hyderabad Whenever I visit Machilipatnam I am happy. I wear headscarf and sweater as it is chill here even before dawn It is humid there. Whenever I go to Machilipatnam I move happily due to its proximity to the sea. […]
Continue ReadingWalking on the edge of a river-2 English Translation – Swathi Sreepada Telugu original written by – Dr.C.Bhavani Devi 2.A circle Like a boy on a horse moving On a giant wheel Every life is a wheel But extreme speed is always dangerous Only one creation of feel A formal drizzle In front of Only […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-4 To Render a Song Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam In a war-field Or under a Bodhi tree Or by the stream of revolutionary movement A song is born. Whenever, wherever it is born, An utterance capable Of rejuvenating life, Thought capable Of entering man like […]
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