THE RAINBOW OF LOVE

Love is flawless, sans blemishes,

But boundless in riches.

Love to shine in kaleidoscopic hues,

And scintillate in majestic views.

Excelling the rainbow variety,

Unity in diversity for beauty,

To echo the sweet union of seven tunes,

The symphony in harmony.

Love is light between dawn and dusk,

For abundant warmth and radiant glory

Like the glows of eyelashes

Like the throbs of hearts.

Love is the cloud to rain,

Love is medicine for cessation of pain,

For love is soil, water, and air,

A journey from germination to fructification,

A sojourn for the right destination,

Love in bloom is life in exuberance,

For its sheen in green brilliance,

Always fresh and ever sacrificing,

Like the flower to spread its fragrance.

Like honey to quench thirsts,

Like the fruit to satiate hungers,

For life and movement in dynamism.

Love is in bounty for swim in gaiety,

Light to lead to delight in eternity,

Freeing from darkness of ignorance

From dependence to deliverance

Love is the compass to lead to the oasis,

For bliss not to miss.

96TH TO 99TH QUADRUPLE ISSUE:

(July 2024)

ALL TO GROW SURELY TO GLOW

nothing comes out of nothing,

action for reaction glaring,

always there is something,

for sure, to be inspiring,

virtues practiced from wisdom,

as a clear sign of humanity

as a king for the people in kingdom

as a stark reality of sovereignty.

like strings to produce notes

melodious to fill pleasures,

like vocal cords of throats

for sonorities as treasures.

like the airy waves all tides

rise in force towards the sky

viewers all to learn the strides,

in life glide humanly high.

inklings in insightful gush

for poetry to shine in variety,

all in an incessant rush

that is beauty in human gaiety.

all those behind are unseen,

all catalysts to lead all to goal,

that is indeed the life scene,

for man-to-man, man’s sole role.

96TH TO 99TH QUADRUPLE ISSUE:

(July 2024)

VERY STRANGE WANTS

                                             C.Narayana Reddy

                                              VERY STRANGE WANTS

                                            

                                              Translated by Dr. Rajamouly Katta

                                              The ears that are tired of hearing

                                              The words uttered by the mouth

                                              Wishes to listen to 

                                              How the heart speaks.

                                              The feet that got disgusted

                                              With walking for years and years

                                              On earth feels walking, 

                                              On water surface interesting,      

                                              The eyes that got bored of watching

                                              All above the welkin                                                        

                                              Grows anxious to go and watch,

                                              How it is beyond the sky.

                                              The fingers that touched ice-pieces

                                              And got unbearable feeling,

                                              Wants to have the experience

                                              Of touching fire-sparks,

                                              The tongue is curious to taste,

                                              The mixture of all tastes.

                                              The strange wants of those feet, 

                                              Those eyes, those fingers

                                              That tongue all are the signs,

                                              Of man's strange attitude. 

                                              When man has the temperaments,

                                              Unwanted and inapplicable,

                                               He becomes a wrong man.

Published: Poetcrit 37-2 July 2024

Source: Poem-19 'Vintha Vintha Korikalu' from Vaakkuku Vayasu Leidu: A Collection of Poems, Vareinya Creations, Hyderabad, 37-38