Poems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-31 A Corf of Chalk Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy Caught in the chilly web of sagittal month Time shivers in the bitter biting cold. Even in the congested cities The fore yards of houses take a head-bath And get cleansed of their inured dirt. And […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-30 The Bay at Bhimili Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy When I walk about that way Spread-eagling my curious looks I get a feeling of sneaking through a new window. Lapping itself in several folds The Sea seems a primordial man Swathing under its watery covers. […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-29 A Colossus Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy Whenever he runs into me The stink envelopes me even before. Embalming his skin with earth He enters like clay sundered by the wintry wind With a basket of dung overhead. He infuses life into the awaiting plants […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-28 Viable Seed Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy Even a tear is dear to me. Melting silently over cheeks Like hope’s mackerel sky… drop by drop Occasionally, Drizzling at other times Like when the florid palanquin of desires Coming close to the hands but slipping off, […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-27 A Dash of Exquisite Beauty Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy Hemmed between the ethereal and the mundane, Gasping for breath in the apartments, And wandering through the currents of civilization Like an ant-head, For once, one evening, After looking at the scintillating browny sun on […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-26 A Foundling Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy A screaming unwanted child when he was born An offshoot of municipal rag-ring A penalty paid by some innocence For a trespass or somebody’s necessity…. The stains of blood over him Won’t betray any addresses. When delicate etiquettes […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-25 The Same Way — Again Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy Making each night a moonbeam-bud I yearn to adorn the flower vase on the table. Taking the advice of the friendly air To try to incense the room With glittering fantasies of youthful passions, But […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-24 The Song of a Cataract Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy When I start piling up words I lose my being and identity. Like a cloud drifting with the wind, I know, Yet, I show off my ego and status. When that man assumes silence, He […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-23 The Epical Touch Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy To mine eyes long forgotten dreamingAnd to my heart’s precincts shut for agesThere came an eyeful ocular epicHanding me out an invitationAnd churning a new lyric in me. The blue herds leisuring out on the skyMust have […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-22 This is it! Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Shyamala Kallury I feel I have known you Before I decide to ask The contexts you have created change. While wondering to myself as to how to know you, Ask you, you drift away moving in circles I keep […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-21 Moonlit Buds of Poetry Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Shyamala Kallury Moonlit buds of poetry Float on the streams of Time in colourful boats Hearts aflame with poetic delight and Questing eyes bind their lives with moonlit Buds of poetry, emitting dreams. Keep the door ajar, Let […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-20 Learning to Walk Afresh Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Shyamala Kallury A girl grows leaning on those very dreams A boy studies to walk the path of the same destination. To sing on that branch as koels, To blossom on a different festival of spring The youth […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-32 The Adieu Song Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: NS Murthy WheneverFriendships sing adieus waving hands,Wounds rake up inflammable passions.The deciduous smiles and tearsShed on the platforms,And under the tree shades in bus-stands,Travel through the post bags againPlaying hide and seek with memories. WheneverFriendships bid good-byeWounds hum commiserate […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-19 Touch of a Melody Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi Sometimes all words jumble up And break into pieces Like flowers dropped on a rock They get hurt and faint They are in agony like a struggling fawn Which struggles to reach the stretched-out hand But […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-18 I Have No Death Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi Somehow I have to keep myself alive everyday Even if I had not attained oneness with divinity Even if I had not flown on the crest of any lightning To keep my aim at the target […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-17 A Stream of Water Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi Someone has robbed the moisture of my tears Tied iron buckets with words of chains And emptied everything time and again Someone snatched away my constant companion Who used to be cool and gushing out time […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-16 Sprout Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: J Bhagyalakshmi It is not possible to travel smooth on any path One comes across ups and downs, twists and turns Before a man dies totally Little waves of death confront him Some unnatural race chases life As if stopping at […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-15 Only After Knowing the Script Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada It is only in a real anguish filled script That I look at myself That I know myself Whenever an ache twisted itself in me That when blow after blow hit, Life lost lustre like […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-14 Curses or Gifts Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada True! That men seek change True that flowing stream of time Courses into million channels Inviting ever newer shapes And astonishes us again and again Also, true From the earth to the sky And the sky to […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-13 Then -Afterwards Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada Then this sorrow all at once wetting and chasing my heart like a spring fixed me in a net otherwise with dew drops fallen amidst leaves with a heart playfully bathing in a pond with tender glances caught […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-12 The Torn Emerald Canvas Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Raamateertha Perching on the yonder hill side greenery As if busy composing music to a new song, With awakening roulades, Those birds becoming musical organs, In pairs drenching in the snow ‘Mushaira’ Used to fill my morning walk […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-11 Childhood Shared witha Babe Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju To have a glimpse of the new-born On our invitation You all come flying and land here like beaming butterflies – Moving freely with teeny weeny guests We embellish the evening superlatively. And elaborate the string […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-10 Melody of Open Wing Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju The reverie stretches long-like an ocean unbound, The sight is far ahead by one century full The waves of Tanpura deep down the throat Shake and dance to unsettle the spinal beads The burning spark of […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-14 Only After Knowing the Script Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada It is only in a real anguish filled script That I look at myself That I know myself Whenever an ache twisted itself in me That when blow after blow hit, Life lost lustre like […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-13 Curses or Gifts Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada True! That men seek change True that flowing stream of time Courses into million channels Inviting ever newer shapes And astonishes us again and again Also, true From the earth to the sky And the sky to […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-12 Then -Afterwards Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: CLL Jayaprada Then this sorrow all at once wetting and chasing my heart like a spring fixed me in a net otherwise with dew drops fallen amidst leaves with a heart playfully bathing in a pond with tender glances caught […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-11 Childhood Shared with a Babe Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Raamateertha To have a glimpse of the new-born On our invitation You all come flying and land here like beaming butterflies – Moving freely with teeny weeny guests We embellish the evening superlatively. And elaborate the string […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-10 Melody of Open Wing Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju The reverie stretches long-like an ocean unbound, The sight is far ahead by one century full The waves of Tanpura deep down the throat Shake and dance to unsettle the spinal beads The burning spark of […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-9 Under the Shower of Honeyed Poetry Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju When the heart turns to a battleground When the battle itself is the essence of life The serial of aesthetic dreams split – Splintered fine dust of broken glass Liquid honey slides smooth on […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-8 Festoon of Lights in a Jingling Festival of Joy Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju Uninterrupted in my inner niches For ever in some corner or other A dancing Jingling Festoon of lights A constant Festival of Joy Enacts a play of life and letters! Would […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-7 Reflections Do Not Talk Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: Munipalle Raju These are the fragrant smells of perfume Rained by a human shrub drop by drop. These are the thrills in an echoing breast Roused by whiffs of a scented feast. These are the tears of our […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-6 When I am Half-asleep Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam Like an iron in the furnace Thought keeps burning. Things around working like bellows Keep the scene aflame. Clouded realities In an expectant mood of faith Await the burning sun. Failing to release the truth, Word […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-5 The Convent Bus Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam With noisy activity the kids rush into the schoolhouse. Likewise little words hasten into my thought. Moments later they quietly stand in a row To say the prayer. Oh, the little ones do make such poetry! My […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-4 To Render a Song Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam In a war-field Or under a Bodhi tree Or by the stream of revolutionary movement A song is born. Whenever, wherever it is born, An utterance capable Of rejuvenating life, Thought capable Of entering man like […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Poem-3 My Great Desire Telugu Original: Aduri Satyavathi Devi English Translation: RS Sudarshanam It isn’t a musical string for delicate play, It isn’t a solid object to be left behind, Maybe it is a note filled with anguish, A vibrant ecstasy born of aesthetic delight, It arises where the conscious […]
Continue ReadingPoems of Aduri Satyavathi Devi Tripura’s note on ‘Collection of Aduri Satyavati Devi’s Poems and their translations’ Even a casual reader of Smt Aduri Satyavati’s collections of poems is bound to be struck by her exceptional talent for interacting with Nature, Music and Man. Her love for Nature is lyrically expressed, her passion for Music […]
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