Tag: Telugu
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You and I… Prasuna Ravindran, Telugu, Indian
We will be chasing each other Separated by the same distance always. A forbidden pang Under the cosmic folds Would be sieving our shadows. An allusive truth, Not amenable to fashioning into words Effortlessly takes shape on the easel. Determined not to get caught in your net I would be devouring darkness inadvertently for you.…
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Apart from Writing… Nanda Kishore, Telugu, Indian
Nobody is yours… Neither the children you so carefully nurture with your hands, The birds that fly fledged under your plumage, Nor this moon that gleams so full in your eyes… No. There is no sanguine trace of yours in any of them. *** Nobody tarries for you. It is but an onliest living Amidst…
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Personal Law… Shamshad, Telugu, Indian
Though the boy’s was not a government job, looking at the trail of degrees after his name my poor school-teacher father, who could barely make both ends meet, arranged the Nikah with half a lakh though it was well beyond his means. How could I know he would turn me away giving Talaq making me…
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Shudder… MS Naidu, Telugu, Indian
. My Lord! With vision dulled And me failing to thread word-strands Through the eye of the needle, I am constrained to adorn you With these disengaged phonemes Today as well. But Grant me That I could present you a garland Before my sense fails… ultimately. . MS Naidu (DOB : 20th April 1971) Telugu…
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Who Knows?… D. Vijaya Bhaskar, Telugu, India
. Who knows What comet catches This ball of Earth in its tail and Swings it out of the Milky Way? What Black hole Would wide open its mouth like a python To swallow this clod of earth? What stormy seas raging up the skies Would inundate this land in deluge And sweep it away…
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A Reassuring Evening… Ramaswamy Nagaraju, Telugu, Indian
Like the sun worn out Wandering for the whole day, I reach out there almost baked The cool breezy sea-shore, where the twilight extends its brief reign of shadows. On the horizon of my languished spirit Then, all of a sudden, A streak of orange flashes for a while. A long desperate…
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The Morning Sky… Mohana Tulasi Ramineni, Telugu, Indian
Camaraderie with the ticking of wall clock once more. Over the window curtains, Tales totter among the shadows of leaves eclipsing the sun. Watching me standing behind the glass door A restless squirrel runs all over the veranda. With the metric of distances, there flies a plane overhead. Not occasionally, but more often, I feel…
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Despondence… Usharani, Telugu, Indian
Some vague fears rake up flares to torment the heart, Wrench and reduce you to a heap of ashes. You long for the caressing touch of either memories or dear ones, And would be eager to resist the arresting angst. Strangely, they too get incinerated and transform into you. And you ultimately remain… A purple…
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Transcreation… Dirghasi Vijaya Bhaskar, Telugu, Indian
. Had there been no tempests How disdainful the ocean been looked at? Had it ceased violent quaking How mortifyingly the earth been looked down? Had there be no thunders How meanly the clouds been scoffed at? Hadn’t he been a master of arts What a midget the man been seen? For the creativity of…
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Almirah Comes Within Reach… Palaparthy Indrani, Telugu, Indian
Mom is attending to her kitchen chore. Sitting in a chair and watching her The baby is playing with her toys. . “You have to study well. You should become a doctor When you grow up. OK?” Said mother. “Um.” “Or, you want to slog before computer Like your dad?” “Um” “I came first in…
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