by Crazyfinger
My excuse for the long gap in posting is the usual lamo one: too much work. But honestly I did try my hand at one or two poems but it is depressing when they don't come out right. At last I managed two Siva Reddy poems. Both are from his collection of poems "Anthology of poems on woman" that I got recently. I am not entirely sure if I got the "munagada deesukuni" in the 3rd line of Dream right.
A Dream
She
Slept just like that
Snuggled in front like a puppy -
Over her
Summer seasons may pass
Rainy seasons may pass
Cold winds of winter may pass
But
The spring that arrived late
Just sat at her feet,
She slept just like that
As though someone bundled up
A long drawn dream and
Forgot to take it while leaving
Burrow
I have a way
I will crawl away into it
But, what does she have
Darkness without trails
All around iron walls dug in,
Nowhere she can go
Wherever she goes,
It is back again to within -
In it is way too dark
Brooding, agonizing
Into the emptiness
Head split in
Thousand empty pieces -
No choice
Each and everyone
Must search for himself
The burrow that leads
Out of life
The scanned copies of Telugu versions are below: Dream is "Oka Swapnam" (12 Dec 2007) and Burrow is "Sorangam" (3 Sept 2002).
These two translations read much better than the originals (IMO). Congratulations!
Posted by: sphujidhwaja | Apr 30, 2010 at 07:09 PM
sphujidhwaja,
Thanks!
Crazyfinger
Posted by: Crazyfinger | May 03, 2010 at 03:11 PM