The Streaming Dawn
English Translation: V.Vijaya Kumar Telugu Original : “Pravahinche Suryodayam” by
Dr K.Geeta
Received dawn you sent yesterday
I’ll hand it over to you by tomorrow mornl
Birds set out to a flight
The lonesome jungle crow cawing hopefully-
Something she’s reciprocated
Oh, the night hugged you with snow
A dewdrop hung on a leaf said
How sleep is more comfortable than wake
She makes me keep nearer to my ears and says sweet nothings
Makes you a pillow and sings a lullaby quietly
The moments hung with anguish fly away suddenly
By joining hands with sleeping spree
At some time when a call made calling by heart
Like a blazing Sun in the noon, You say-
“I’m in a meeting-call you later”
When it was eleven with the midday sun
“It’s dark and sleepy” and say, “the chill is killing me well”
I don’t know how you’re there beyond those seven oceans
I wait incessantly on the cell whole day that rings once a day
A couple of parrots lost in chirps freely on branches
Pairs of sparrows building the nests with responsibilities
Rows of squirrels chasing each other
They catch the fading
moon deftly and glue it as my memory
on your sleeping cheek
The morn that you sent with snowy-wet warming my heart
By tomorrow morning
Like a ray it travels into your heart
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A post graduate in English literature and language and in Economics. A few of my translations were published. I translated the poems of Dr. Andesri , Denchanala, Ayila Saida Chary and Urmila from Telugu to English. I write articles and reviews to magazines and news papers. To the field of poetry I am rather a new face.