Principle of Life … Vinnakota Ravisankar, Telugu, Indian Poet
It matters little even if you have no friends
but, you can’t make life without an enemy.
A man without a rival born
is as vegetable as a Brain-dead.
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With all that, it’s just a game.
And as in every game,
more than your team
the role of your rival counts much.
Man might wriggle out of umpteen bonds
but not the snares of success and reverses.
Man is yet to invent an intoxicant
more headier than success.
Man is a strange wild beast:
It vanquished the forest
But, surrendered to its heart.
Whatever the new equations be
Rivalry is a constant factor,
The only variable is… Rival.
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Vinnakota Ravisankar
Indian Poet
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Photo Courtesy: Vinnakota Ravisankar
Vinnakota Ravisankar is living in Columbia, South Carolina, USA for the last 14 years. He has to his credit three collections of poetry in Telugu published so far — kuMDeelO marri ceTTu (The Bunyan in a Flowerpot) (1993), vEsavi vaana (Summer Rain) (2002) & remDO paatra (The Second Role)(2010).
బాగుంది మూర్తిగారు. మూలంలో లేని కొన్ని కొత్త అందాలని అంతరించారు – ఉదా. ఇంతొక్షిచంత్ హేదిఎర్ థన్ సుచ్చెస్స్ .. తొలి చరణాన్ని మినహాయించి మిగతా చోట్ల శత్రువుకి rival అని వాడారు. శత్రువే సరైన పదమని నాకనిపిస్తోంది. ఇక్కడ జరుగుతున్నది పోటీ కాదు, యుద్ధమే.
sir, i am a writer in kannada language. i`ve gone through mr. vinnakota ravishankar’s poems. i like this poem for it’s freshness. i just want to translate it into kannada. where should i get permission for this? can i avail mr. ravishankar’s contact no. or mail id?
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