Tag: Telugu
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Is This All Man, After All?!… Mercy Margaret, Telugu, Indian
Mounds of scattered flesh smelling still fresh ooze blood. Head to one side, and severed hands and legs the other side. The position of the corpse suggests the victim had tried to jump on the run and dropped dead. The torso, hanging half on either side of the wall seems to wail for the…
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Sidara Sendrayya… Aruna Sagar, Telugu, Indian
When he laughs the river glitters; When he gets neck deep into it It would embrace him in a vortex. The River is so fond of him. Sitting on its bank He engages in sweet nothings with her; braving the speeding waters he dares to stall it with his hand. The river likes that gesture.…
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Can A Mirror Lie? … Karlapalem Hanumantha Rao, Telugu, Indian
(A surrealist Poem) Somebody Offered me a quarter In my dream And said,”Boy! Buy whatever I want.” After waking up I went to the market cheerfully and bought dark clouds, and soaps to wash them, Trees And the stairs to climb them, long wide highways to leisurely lie down and narrow easy flowing canals…
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An Earnest Appeal… Dasari Amarendra, Telugu, Indian
Yes, it’s true. I admit I was recklessness In falling asleep like a log. Without realizing there could be you around it’s true that in the cradle swing of train I fell asleep oblivious to the world. Well, You did your duty. I don’t find fault with you. *** You might have opened the suitcase…
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Ajeya … Kuppili Padma, Telugu, Indian
“All the Rajani fans Don’t miss the chance Lungi dance, Lungi dance, Lungi dance…” I was about to enter the Land Mark Bookshop when the song reverberated in high pitch. I reached for the railing and peeped down. Many people like me were looking down from all floors. On the ground floor, more than hundred…
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Tranquillity… Manasa Chamarti Telugu, Indian
O Vault of Heaven! When you sizzle all of a sudden with a streak of lightning or when I rattle feverishly to find expression to an idea What a turmoil it is! But once you melt into drops… And I flow into a poem… what a seize of tranquility! . Manasa Chamarti Telugu Poet .…
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Captive … Usha Rani, Telugu, Indian
In the relentless rain of moonlight The stars occasionally seem balls of hail … I run after falling meteors With the swiftness of childhood … I have already melted enough hails And cooled off comets and meteorites! A rainbow opens up on the sky, but Within, a firmament snuggles smugly Some more colourful dreams try…
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For A New Metaphor… Vadrevu Chinaveerabhadrudu
There’s Fall in the air. It’s time the viridity returns to the bark, to the stalk, and to the spirit lying deep Within the living cells. The melodies playing before eyes till now, retreat in endless cycles like winding on a spool. Winter comes to an end. A whirlwind of withered leaves. A pale anemic…
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Accused Forever…. Neeraja Amaravadi, Telugu, Indian
That the death sentence Shall be abolished in all cases except Serious terrorist activities Heartened even a yet-to-be-born. Rider: There are exceptions And dealt with on case to case basis. If you are sure that foetus is a girl child Execution shall be forthwith. For the crime of giving birth to a girl A mother…
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The Prop… Indus Martin, Telugu, Indian
Ever since hutments cropped up around, Like a lone central column, The singular prop for our lives Has been that serrated sickle. To snap the umbilical cord That noosed around my neck In the hands of my granny What came handy was… that gory scalpel To prevent post parturition paralysis To the just yeaned dappled…
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