Is it pen or staff ? staying at home or farm?
Doing poem or cultivation?
Have you sat on cot or bed of straw ?poet or farmer veteran?
Being ambidextrous, do you like pen or plough?
Your palms have turned hard
Due to strain of writing with pen
Or farming with a plough on your shoulder
The angels praise you with eyes open!
Man of hand delicate!
Your book testifies to your heart tender
how did you walk the oxen with a stick
and shove the birds about to sit on crop?
“Believe me, mother! Won’t sell you to those kings heinous”
You said and fortunate enough to cajole,
Wipe the warm tears of eyes of mascara of Vani
Weeping at your threshold.
Gritty not to give your daughter of poetry
To those kings ugly, lame and full of blame
Dedicating your book to Rama
You stuck to profession pure, man of merit!
Plenty are poets dexterous
To use sweet and selective Telugu idioms
Incomparable are you who flowed
the streams of nectarine rasa of devotion on Telugu land?
The withered trunks might have bloomed!
The stones perhaps got thrilled in city of Warangal !
Joy of tears possibly filled eyes of Mother Telugu elated!
Perchance ripened crops in flow nectarine of poetic devotion!
The glow of ear rings of Krishna
Leaping on to Bhisma
The hair untied falling on the back
of Lord rushing to rescue the king of elephants
The looks of love and anger
From the eyes of Satya on battle field
The taste of mango pickle
In the fingers of shepherds eating eagerly rice cold
How did you know!
Which night did you dream!
Painted with brush colourful in manner fine!
Is it a sign of your erudition innate!!
While writing Bhagavatam dear
You might have dipped your pen in sugar
Otherwise, how come those ideas charming
In poems penned on palm leaves?
“Bhagavatam is a fruit fortunate for all Telugus-
Matchless” trumpeted angels in the skies!
Sweet mango juice might have spilled from your pen
When you sat to write!
You rendered superbly
Vyasa’s work in to Telugu
Yours is the first place in poets!
Poems pretty and blissful pour out of your pen!!
Despite other poets prominent
The name ‘Pothana’ melts my heart!
Raises my hands to pay homage!
Does this power magnetic
Lie in his name or pen!?
A very beautiful poem that depicts the beauty lies in Mahakavi Pothana 's writings.Though i learnt about his versatile genius, I never read his works (as i don't know the language).
ReplyDeleteYour poem is a great one making me to know more about him!
very nice. Do you have the telugu version of this great poem on the great poet?
ReplyDeleteThe Telugu version of the poem is available in Karunasri sAAHITYAM - PART ONE called Udayasri published by Visalandhra Publsing house- E-mail address is : visalaandhraph @Yahoo.com : Phone no. 040- 24735905/ 2474580.
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