drizzling night sky--
a million translucent stars
fall on the dark tar road
and thaw into silvery liquid
that trickles to the muddy sidewalk.
#karkuzhali
18.09.2020
Welcome to my blog. I'm Karkuzhali and I write poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Tamil and English. I also translate into both languages.
drizzling night sky--
a million translucent stars
fall on the dark tar road
and thaw into silvery liquid
that trickles to the muddy sidewalk.
#karkuzhali
18.09.2020
Srivatsa,
poet and friend is passionate about reading, writing, and translating
poems by other poets. Once he picks up a poem, Srivatsa reaches out to
the poet for approval, then shares the translated version to make sure
nothing is lost in translation, and gets the approval of the poet to
publish the original and translated versions on his Facebook wall. While
translating, what I like best is that he ensures that the meaning,
meter, rhyme,and rhythm remain intact.
More often than not, I
write poems in Tamil and publish them on Facebook. Srivatsa has picked
up some of my poems that he liked most and have translated them. So far, he has translated 28 of my poems. I intend to collect them all and share them with you.
In my blog, I'm sharing both the Tamil original by me, and the English translation by Srivatsa together. Read on and share your feedback with me.
sharp pen tip scratches paper and oozes words--
bustling thoughts
like vehicles in a freewheeling thoroughfare
collide headlong.
word interchanges come to a screeching halt
and the sword of Damocles hangs midair.
deep thoughts sliced with a cleave:
THUD!
roll down the mound one after another:
SPLASH!
pound river surface and dive under:
PLOP! SWOOSH!
words scatter,
unthreaded beads rush on smooth tiles
CLUNK! TINKLE! SWISH!
seek safe dark cold places,
hide beneath heavy unrelenting furniture and,
escape the reach of the sword of Damocles.
#karkuzhali
16.09.2020
An overdose of solitude imposed by the lockdown puts the human mind through different perspectives. Solitude makes the mind more observant than ever before. Restrictions on movement will only apply to the body while imagination has a free run. I would very much love to cuddle the puppy dog from this poem in Tamil penned by Karkuzhali: