Saturday, 22 June 2019

Selective Translation of Poetry of Dr G S Shivarudrappa, National poet - to English by Dr Raveendra Hosadurga


Dr.G.S.Shivarudrappa  part 5(last part):
Poetry collection’without love’
Without love:
Without love
How can flower blosom?
How can cloud form?
Drop breaking down
How can garden  bud out on earth?

Without love
How can talk join talk?
How can meaning take birth? Only if word is paired with word
 how poetry becomes?

Without love
To dense park of afrika
can light appear?
In midst of bars of jail
Degrading  (drying up)dream bud out?
To deep dark heart of white people
How can be kindness of Christ understood?

Without love
Along border of doubts
How can war of explosive bombs  Stop
In between caste –creed- language-colours wall
How can  suffering  avoided?
Our and your mind
 Without becoming desert
 How to prevent?
…………………….end…………………….
Which song shall I sing?:

Which song shall I sing
by which song shall I
give you peace of mind?

Surrounding houses and matas
Burning with flame
Failing dumb lifefloating in sigh
Which song shall I sing?

By mere nature of speech
In  weapon(shula) of exploitation
In trick (plan) of of cunning
Hungry  stomach paining
Which song shall  I sing?

In burning eye of dead bodies
In roasting (over heating) of existing dream
 Volcano of chest and chest
Emiting fire and smoke
Which song shall I sing?

In path without light
In line of destroyed  temple
Residence of storm
 moving of  blind journey
 which song shall I sing?
……………………….end………………….

Progress(pragathi)
 To   where to where   further?
by walking  so many days
Where did  we come and stop.

Past grandures of history
Pushing memory to corner
Rooting in realism
When we will grow?

Series of lines of hungry stomachs
Tongue without letters
On shoulder of development
bag of begging
is this our progress
shall we illuse coolly.?

In wetland of innocent
Seed of caste and ignorance
Sowing always growing crop
Grandure of intellects.
In midst of these  can we read(chant)
 manthra of sarvodaya?

In temple of janaganamana
To statue of humanity
Not submitting front (top,first)worship
Is there any meaning for progress?
……………………………..end…………………………….

I write:
I write about tones which come and
Knock the door  in dark night

I write
About boats which swing
On sea    in  storm

I write
About bones sleeping
At depth of earth

I write
About breathing the dark of centuries
Slowly rising head buds

I write
About bright days melting
In evening daek

I write
About those who fight for
Fame on endless streets

Regarding blosoming  dreams
About rolling wheels
I write. About I
Becoming bald with withering
Leaves one by one.
………………………..end……………………………

For example:
No boredom to this nature
To emit as new green always
In our house field(angala,front yard) plant
Flowers  let us take
For example if needed

Each flower has different beauty
For each one different bondage
Sculpture,rhythm,metre  design
In the same way countless speciality.

Flower opening cup eye
 To see something
Flower opening  lip, standing
To kiss somebody else
Depressed by losing something  present
Flower with withered petals.
Just like describing  hundreds
Of feelings,it’s beauty

On seing so many flowers
Why did my heart bounces with joy?
Like sunrise coming from dark?

This nature has no boredom
To emit always as  new green
No boredom to this mind
To mix with all these
No end for joy pouring(emiting)
From union of  objective and abstract.
………………………..end……………………………..
Controversy(sandigdha):
Though seen in front

Of eye can’t keep quiet
If we get into fight
All energies get emptied
Makes to remember  abhimanyu
What to do now?

Orvalient like me
To fight with these is a waste
Surrendering to dry vedantha
Shall I get into corner and keepquiet?
By keeping quiet ,submitting
Both here and there
Samanvaya(coordinate) siddha
Shall I become
Lamp on the cross wall?
To peaceful face of such people
And for their cleverness
Shall I say ‘jai’.
………………………………………..end…………………….

Once in a year:
some where some one has pressed switch
in this bald field
suddenly in body of tree and tree
madness of yellow flower
or like burning of coloured spark
in mid afternoon.

 Under this fireburning coolly
Are getting their body heated up
Boys-girls
Doing conversation .
Pity,theydoes not know
The superficial colour
Withering in few days
Again tree becomes bald
Jumping from root to branch
This enthusiasm flying flying for few days
Falling down ,gets dried up.

 Drying up like this ,dissolving
Becoming small  and soil
Being washed away in forceful rain
They don’t know.

Wheather they know or not
Like this once in a year,though somebody
Had put switch,
Burns enlighting suddenly
In body of tree and tree
Madness of yellow flower.
……………………end……………………
Line:
In silence of graveyard
I alone
From standing trees around
 leaves are falling
one by one
as the wind blows

slept inside yesterday’s day
before yester day’s and beyond that
steping the land.
Becoming breath ,fame,
Together with each other
Lived,
Who fought with their time
Alept silently  ,melting at
Depth of land digested
Again in these green trees
Standing around ,as green
Flower,birds,tone
Grass embracing floar (land) as stone
Still some other
Without recognition.

I am sitting,in this middle
As shapeful
Breathing,seing all these
Thinking what is the difference
Them and me
Recognizing  the line
Between in and out
………………..end………………..
Come to my heart:
In lampless path
Searching words
At bottom of tears
Putting off sparks
Keep  breath
Give name
 Come to my  heart

 In blue(sky) without body
Floating drops
In mouthless silence
Wandering tones
Keep breath
Give name
 Come to my heart.

In lands without water
Degenerating buds
In severe hot son’s tread
Dried (shriveled)up small  nuts
Keep branch
Give name
 Come to my heart.

 In instrument without shruthi(note,tune)
Baseless tones
Due to  storm fallen leaves
Kids of golden dream
Give breath
Give name
 Come to my heart
………………………..end…………………
Written:
Came one night full of  house yard(angala)
Fixed tent
I said ‘no’ you did not listen
Making   shruthi(tune)
 Played thamburi

 Like cooled   forehead eye
Moon  floating above
Like a flower arrow thrown by kama(lust)
Spilling ragamala.

 In clean pond of thar raga rasa
Blossoming hundreds of  lotus
In each one apsaras playing
When golden curl opened

i was afraid,by seing
writing in curl
“I want you you need me”
We are boyh pair
…………………….end………………….
Talent-scholarship:



Seing weak horses tied
Laughed rutuparna
Nala became handicapped
By poison of karkataka.
Conducted (ran)chariot as driver(sarathi)

Is it possible to reach  nishsdha
By the time of swayamvara(self selection)
As repley to question ,with smile
Twinkled talented eyes.

Splitting air path moving chariot
 King noded head with wonder.
Appreciated bahuka; you know
Subject of horse heart.i am
Also a scholar in something other
Also,rising head below
In branches branches of stretched tree
Will tell me number of  leaves.


 Suddenly downed chariot from sky
Within seconds ruthuparna counted
number of leaves in tree
above eighty thousand  lakhs
four hundred ninety
tree swibging to cool air (breeze)
smiled and noded!

bahuka liked
scholarship of rutuparna
again chariot rised silently
as though wings appearing to horse.
…………………end…………………………………

Fear song:
In morning sky opening  everyday
There is shadow of  blood stains
Daily closing in  evening dark
There ssound of painful tones

In dense dark night
Wisher of inner plans(triks)
  Knocking doors of peaceful  house
 Devils of fear and doubts

 In daily morning  mass killing
Of  shaking   bad newses.
To the height of three colours flag
Creeping flames of fear.

Getting into pieces  life of innocents
 In attack of  mean selfishness
Baked is flower garden
In dance of blind fires

Elders taught  manthras of
Truth, non violence are   wasted
In breath holding  dense smokes 
steps are searching.
…………………end……………………..

See, full of sky:
See full of sky
Jasmine of white light
Shall I fly pluking  bringing
Make it wear  in knot?

In our house yard(field)
than blossoming laughing
are they big?
blosoming on green land
instead of laughing so much above
why did they went  ?

if I were god
all stars blossoming in
each house of our town
would have created
does not he know  this much
the god who made world
is really  dullard.
……………………………………..end……………………….
In new house:
Out of town single house.those who come
Tell what  beautiful is sorounding view
At some distance , hill of  magnet coloured
That side is down rising  head green   leaf
Shining coconut garden
On left side is  shining pond
In evening colourful cloud at sky border
At   night  often “sea moon light”


Enjoying for their appreciation celebration
For one or two days.night’gum’ sounding dark
No further sound.beyond glass windows
At some distance some where laugh of lamps.
Outside even a sound of dry leaf
Heart beat.even on seing wall colour
directly sweating to her,even if
there is little delay starts mill.
Rented house in the  middle of town
So far,memory of spent days in
Congestion troubles  favourably(moderately)
In this new house built at
Distant area no happiness.
In empty sites around  house
If houses arise ,till speech of
Neighbor falls on ear
Even this new house  is hell to her.
……………………….end………………………….
A love song like this:
I embraced you
Just like night jumping on earth
And covering.upside down
moon light of full moon day
filtering forests chest coming down
like snow of winter(magi) filling
up full in valley.

 You embraced me
Boiling of sea kissing up  as clouds
Noise of world rising up
 Mixing with open field
Festival of village climbing up
 Into temple on the hill
………………………..end…………………..
One night:
Some one in fast phase(gathi)
Playing sitar’s note is sprinkling
This sitar  congested sky
Sparks exploding in grandure
Deepaka raga in mansion of sky
Echoing (reflecting sound)
Has earth slept with dissatisfaction
In silence seing dream.
……………end………………………
Song of union:
One one we are all one
 Where  ever may be in this country
Bharatha is one for us.

Though many branches  stretched out
Only one stem for tree
Thousand rivers  however they floe
Joining sea is one.

Though thousands of stars at night
Only one sun in day
For countless moovment of planet systems
Only one sky

 Though hundreds of worships
god is one for all
cows of various colours  giving
milk   is only white

though many differences in walk and talk
living people are one
opening wings of shadow and light
 hoisting (flying) flag is one.
……………….end……………………………….
House building people:
Building house for these and those
Wear and tearing   this people
Won’t they feel,for them also
One small house is not there

While building house these also
Are also along with cements,iron
Only building materials?
Will not get mixed  in building
Their body sweat,tears,sigh
Again pain of not having house  for ever?

To build house is their work forthese people
In rain,sun,wind
Carrying soil from day to day
The building which they are building
Seing,rising upstairs by stairs
Worrying in huts  by it’s  side
  Tearing these people,won’t they
Feel ,we also does mot have house?
……………………..end…………………………
Fear-fearless:
I had no fearwhile wandering
Alone without any  front and back
Now I have fear,when I am living as family holder 
 between me and  our people.

I had no fear walking alone
In between stars
Now I am afraid  in midst of
Hundreds of vehicles while
Travelling in high way

I had no fear when wandering
Without   aim in midst of jwalamala kula(garland of flames)
Now I have fear  while searching
In dark of late evening.

I had no fear,while waiting for
Shape,sleeping in womb of temple(uterus)
Now shape has fear of vikara (change,ugliness)
Broken in history.
……………………….end…………………
Song of ugadi:
What is if dusk(dark) covers
Spread night path
Go forward with courage
To bank of sun rise(arunodaya)

Let old thoughts wither leave
To blowingwinter wind
Let grave of  dry leaves  born
To flame of  rise of chaithra.

New hope is budding
Leaves have fallen in branch
In blossoming laughing flowers
Faith is bouncing.

 Chariot   tied  with horses
Of day and night is running
In path of epochs and epochs
Season  wheels are rollings
…………………………end………………………………..

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