Poems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-23 The Epical Touch Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy To mine eyes long forgotten dreamingAnd to my heart’s precincts shut for agesThere came an eyeful ocular epicHanding me out an invitationAnd churning a new lyric in me. The blue herds leisuring out on the skyMust have […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-22 This is it! Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Shyamala Kallury I feel I have known you Before I decide to ask The contexts you have created change. While wondering to myself as to how to know you, Ask you, you drift away moving in circles I keep […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-21 Moonlit Buds of Poetry Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Shyamala Kallury Moonlit buds of poetry Float on the streams of Time in colourful boats Hearts aflame with poetic delight and Questing eyes bind their lives with moonlit Buds of poetry, emitting dreams. Keep the door ajar, Let […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-20 Learning to Walk Afresh Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Shyamala Kallury A girl grows leaning on those very dreams A boy studies to walk the path of the same destination. To sing on that branch as koels, To blossom on a different festival of spring The youth […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-19 Touch of a Melody Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi Sometimes all words jumble up And break into pieces Like flowers dropped on a rock They get hurt and faint They are in agony like a struggling fawn Which struggles to reach the stretched-out hand But […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-18 I Have No Death Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi Somehow I have to keep myself alive everyday Even if I had not attained oneness with divinity Even if I had not flown on the crest of any lightning To keep my aim at the target […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-17 A Stream of Water Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi Someone has robbed the moisture of my tears Tied iron buckets with words of chains And emptied everything time and again Someone snatched away my constant companion Who used to be cool and gushing out time […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-16 Sprout Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi It is not possible to travel smooth on any path One comes across ups and downs, twists and turns Before a man dies totally Little waves of death confront him Some unnatural race chases life As if stopping at […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
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