Sri A .K. Ramanujam poetries.selected from’kannada kavi kaavya
kusuma 24’’ published by sundara
sahithya , chaithra sri,43. kalamandira,5th
cross ,a. na .su road,hanumantha nagara
,bengaluru-560019. Edited ny indira sundar.
Translated
by dr.raveendra hosadurga.
I am
grateful to poet and his family members
and publishers.
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1)
Few
days:
if missed step in corner of house,back bone of small boy
In vegetable gardenif digedbone
skeleton of ancients.
Chanting manthra (holy sybales)
vathapi jirnobhava,even if told
Splitting gut of those who have eaten
and belched
Drying on road,even if rubed after rains
Fountain in in blood eye.
In black kanagile tree red flower
Tearing mother’s stomach (abdomen)
born daughter in early
morning
Without wound in snow alagiridu
(smiling?)(……………?)
all snow drinking red sweet water somebody’s salt.
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2)one American insect:
Lady bug
Red enamel body insect
American insect
Near spring(vasantha) one birth
To Wing of gulaganji(……………….?)
Five black dots.
Sixth black dot is
Head
Eye in
Head
existing two hairs are
mustache
at the tip of mush world
touch
to this lady bug
mother lady bug
kid to
tnis
food
sleep
fear of fire
thirst.
Masturbation
Blood
Tube
Cell
For amoeba this is
Six leg ideal.
For mosquito
Elephant.
On seing
From tip of hand figure cone
Red girigattale(…………?) becoming
dust
Flied off
While flying it’s wing
Might have sounded.
To this ear of gross body
Was not heard
For sparrow
This is very much likeful.
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2)
Art
and life beauty:
In dusty street of madhure
This lepper’s this
Face is broken
No nose to face.
No figure to palm
No heel to leg.
To that paste around eye
Mosquito.
Ulcer is n.aga flower
For peacock coloured house flies
By side in wife’s neck new thaali(sacred
neck chain)
Behind him is temple door
Apsare (divine dame)of centuries centuries.
Below broken nose
Sculpture scripture’s thirty second formula.
Fiting smile.
Period is khilji’s grad son.
Even in broken thigh three posture(thribhanga).
Coin between thighs
On it thamil pokarii’s(poli)
Sanskrit.
Myself remembering both these
Did speech on life and art
In America
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4)this in that:
In between forests tree
Grass in cement split
Finel cut (greenish) kotthambari leaf
In American market
5)one among five elements(panchebhuthas):
Covering green algae (paachi?)of peace
Lotus pond:cholera if drunk
Life river: on that bank
Discharged(excreted) thengolalu chakkuli menses-
Bath all soap watercarrying
flowing
Unattached life.
After seing seing this
How to drink?
Govern peopleoutside town building stage(katte?)
Filtering all panchagavya(holy
cow urine)
Purifying In net of pipes in town
Within limited time let day time
three hours
Only tap water.
Pure is true.
But bitter in mouth
,for grand father’s ceremoney
This is mpure.fishes won’t leave in this
All rice and rasam
Punjent(ghaatu) smell of chlorine.
If one is like this in five elements(panchabhuthas)
Tell what to do.
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6) lust (kama):
Hey lust
In sentence you are untalkable(avaachya?) you are
Remaining people’s direction
direction cloth(dik+ambara)
You are
For ever no
Full stop
First there
Not end.
Quoting the dead once
Like quotation mark
Not krouncha birds pair
On upper branch of rushi sentences.
You are
Below
Not past but future
You are middle of middle
(middle of waist)
Thread of bow of shunashyepa
Not got back bone bow
Not wonder
In it’s lightning leg toe tipno kumkuma
Not question.
Standing on small ball
Doing circus single leg’s
Not curved(bent) body you are
Speech only is linga of light
You are bud of dark.
To you
Who has no end and beginning
Front and back.
In between
Dualities
Beginingless
Infinet
Partless ranga’s
Linga
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7)one umbrella ,one watch:
Our father to me
In childhood only
Brought one small umbrella,
One watch.
He six feet
Above him two three feet
His umbrella.
Because of this
I am three feet
short
while walking in rain by side
all body sprinkling.
While going
wet on left side,while coming wet
on right side.
His girigao chappal(footwear)
Mud droplets thrown by
Each step ad step
From leg to toe
By spokes of umbrella
Even after stoppage of rain
Drop drop rain
Upon my head
Telling ayyo pity(papa) father
like a short fellow
Bent and held umbrella down
There was much laugh to me.
But if he downs umbrella
difficulty to
my eye, nose ,neck
tip of spokes(sticks) of umbrella,
were pecking kok kok
it is very difficult
to walk under my father’s
umbrella.
Therefore he brought umbrella,
Along with let there be
Watch also
Brought and gace.
After getting new umbrella
Under rain his umbrella
Under his umbrella
my umbrella.
But brother playing sword style
Broke stick of umbrella.
In one weak’s storm on Sunday
It’s black cloth also
Became
Inside out.
Mooved for one week and stoped
For anger myself
Keeping in betal leaf arecanut grinding
kottana(………..?)
One day crushed.
Mother
beaiting and
scolding me
broomed off
it’s face,wheel,spring,hand led
many days
pity(papa)
our two teethed protruded
(bochchu)mouth’s
grand
mother,crushing eating betal leaf and arecanut,
pullangayunde
used to tell why ramu crushed
teeth or wheel of clock and kept.
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8) two egg:
From childhood
to me
sunlight butterfly
housefly of jagery
sugar ant
very much likings
holdingdelicately
removing wingspreading angle of leg
they lying supine
beating hand legs
my
mind given
cycling head down
wings of butterfly yellow colour
smearing to figure
myself became
biology teacher
from age threeseing sky
in mysuru window
seing dream of aeroplane
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9) got again:
At night
On face bangle shaking
Played figure.
Nose
Two eyeroll of ear
underground(tunnelsuranga)
Since morning tear minute minute
Charapara
Grown
Nustach and beard
Cracked December peel(thogate) lip
Single hair on mole
Again
Got.
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10)other use of glass:
On rosing in morning in bed glass
Pricked.
Glass in
Banion.in nikker
Glass bangle piece.
Green,yellow,red
Broken circles geometry loop(vanki)
Sharp tip,
Selecting lifting(picking)
Son weeping in after noon
Putting mirror in tube
Did kelidoscope
And gave.
Became figure
Peculiar.
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11)natural:
Naturally
What ever is hungry and eaten
telling svaha
Are all havis(offer to fire) sir
Going coming breath itsels is
manthra
Is sarigama magarisa
From houseto street from street to house
Daily walking is pradakshine(round)
Sleeping by tiring,drinking itself is
Is sastanga(eight part
uniting to female as male,to male
as female
two back’s four feet(leg) becomes
bhutha(……….?) god.
Yoga of invitation of coming on
body(shaking)
When fallen liberation
When rised rebirth
In between
Birth and birth.
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12) to poetry without word:
O poetry without word
When vadiraja carried wet putti(hasi kadale)
Vessel
Rising on shoulder
from back eating that putti(kadale)
horse faced
on both arms
daily pressed anf left
horse-
paws seal:
without face and body
back god’s smell of gas of
putti(hasikadale):
not fixed laala(iron piece
for protecting feet)
weight of gorasu (khura)leg
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13)this role is yours:
Existing
Body
Talk
Shining rotating this air
doom(gumbaz)
In and out flowing drying water
Father mother
She her nine holes
Her daughter
That tree’s
Kritthika star.
When nothing is ours
In this condition
This
Only is
Yours ayya?
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14)still three bhuthas(devils, ghosts):
Father hit. I killed my son.
Mother kept at night and forgotten
kiss
To champaka house girl joining
in sleep only
Remaining
Morning came up to my daughter.
Carries teeth boy
In lane
Defeacating
Touching my sense organs
Postponing my marriage date
Further
Arising(awakening ) his three wifes
One after another
He man (valiant) heating his iron
Put (drew) African burns
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15)twins:
Ah seniors had done
Keeping her dress to she
Keeing her dress to this(ivalu)
Wanted to sing.
You know what happened?
She tearing this’s saree
This(ivalu) tearing her saree
Wanted to run
Thiking let it be spoiled
Making to wear his dress to this(ivalu)
Making to wear her dress to him
Wanted to see.
Bad people peeping in window seing
Teasing as rasika(interested)
Market gathered.
Police troop coming
Enquiring my sheela(chastity)
Paid penalty.
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16)colour:
To kid birthing just
Sky blue eye.
In winter dark
Orange kept as karthika bulb
Garland
Full of mouth wound
severe demon’s pan (thambula)
turmeric mutthaide (married not
widowd) body ful
green bangles.
Before leaving milk
Smeared breast
Neem dried black green.
In cover Blanket of rainy season
square of peculiar minded.
Wishpering talks white –
efficiency of letters.
Of mirror
To flock of parrots
Marriage together.
To sterile branch of severe summer
Cross of doll and rambhe’s (divine
dame)
Cross bud ‘s good function(osage)
Kept in yellowgrass mass
End of old seed splitting(buding)
Ten green scorpions pregnant.
This much of colour to eye
For few intellects only two colours
Swallowd colour:
Black
White
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17)migration (coming) song:
For sake of chills from north to south every year flying
Thousands of miles migratimg coming
family9okkalu)
Fall of stools (hike)of birds on home coming path
To step step forest grown avari(grain,avare grain)
In high forest path accepted.branch in sleep
Seed fallen again again,found in earth
forest
In forest,awaken green
Sky shaking dark leaf.
When illusion misses step
real sheep eating paper lion-
Body.side house boy lost cycle –wheel
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18)if that bird is wanted:
There was king in Mongolia
When he had gone to attack
some outside country(lifting army)
hearing one bird song
as that song was wanted by him
catching bird for that song
along with bird lifting nest
branch under nest
branch to branch
for branch tree
root under tree
soil around root
that town
water
non monsoon rain(hind rain,later six)
that region
country
that whole state(kingdom)
willing to lift all
gathering existing all
elephants,horse,chariot army
winning whole state
joining to his kingdom
did not go to his house only
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19) patthe(finding out):
From mohalla to
Street
from street
to house
in house
up to me
police dog
missed khydi(……………)
holding old jail smell
like smelling
searching
old friend of other town
asking unacquainted people
made out(traced out)
address
likewisw
within me
your
continuous enquiry
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20)if dream falls to intelligent:
In old china to
one intelligent
Dream every night.
Each night
Becoming musumbi coloured
Butterfly,from lotus
To sevanthige(flower)
Fron sevanthi to lotus
As though flying in air
Dream.
Many nights becoming butterfly
Finding dream at end
Wheather man or butterfly
Is Butterfly of night
Or day (time)man’s dream
Wheather during day
night’s dream
without knowing
got illused.
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21)thousand leg:
Making hole(bila) in life
Rolling insect life
Some how twisting
Thousand legs becoming four
Some how knowing back and front
Standing
On back legslifting head
This animal seing;
Now earth(land) is now country
Forest is one department
Now colour is one varna
One colour if husband dies
If party fails another colour
Red black kaavi(saffron)
Shirt odf different languages
Elephant teeth ivory
Ash sacred ash(vibhuthi)
If blown dull ash
Eyeful of bhasmasura
Mill of mohini
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22)explosion:
White room’s near white bed
White nurse coming
To sleeping black buttock
Pricking needle
Keeping medicine
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
Zero
Waiting for explosion
Countind
in descend
becoming lazy
where ever gone
myself myself
coming along
with
myself also
in mata mata(severe)
meditation
became anthardhana
(merged)
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23) fragrance(smell ,sandal):
In front of our house grown up
with our love
See cosmos flower.
Smellless flower!
To whom needed?
Jasmine’s kanakaambara
Let go
Rose?
Like this broke nose
Teacher.
When smelled
To smell of smellless
Breath caught.
Rubbing body washing
Giving enema to nose
Applied sandal
Jasmine’s white
Champaka’s yellow
Small full
Body of wife
Smell
Full
Smellless bad odour
Hit blowd.
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25)without forgetting:
Mother somewhere in bengaluru
Three months after
Dieng
Day and nigh
Tik tik
Cutting smallly
When dark
Radium digits
Twinkling
hand leg
my son daghter’s
dava dava
hand pulse
embracing
running
without missing.
Two wrist watches sent
By her :
Daily morning
Key should be given
Without forgetting.-
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26) this is flowing water:
To vagina of fish
Air bindu falling
This amin easing
Coming to bank
Kept see:
Hundred namas to water
Yungpsi Volga Yamuna
Gulf khaari ganga water
Thirtha(holy water) enjalu
(saliva) cattle’s urine
This is flowing warer means
Teared spilled dayadi(cousins) wet land
Border right,fence jumping gonda((………….?)
Supreme court case.
If shell insect dies
Full of mahabharatha
Full of ramanavami
of opposite house
rama rama
cone sound.
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Gonde=ornament,bunch,
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27)shadow:
Though this much os age
Still needed lilk breast
Bottle.
If goes to latrine
Should see what colour
Excetra should be seen.
Though thirty two
Grand children
Still sugar seep
If rised mujugara(
hesitation?................)
Tickling sensation on sides(pakke)
Handful of joy
Inside nikker
Love means love
Blue light of street
When suddenly
Puts off
Shadow of gumma
Wearing coat
Though epochs have passed
After death of father and mother
Distant face
Rising step
If comes near.
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28)to nose:
Kissing to nose
If nose is rubbed
In midst of
Court file fees
Also
Blood circulation.
To this diabetic
Dead body(cadaver)
New new charm
In intoxication of
Sucking bottle
Also
If told gold
If silver bangle(kadaga) is shown
If mirror is made to shine
Eye this much broad
If bangle is shaked(shook)
Toy(giliki0sound of
Old cradle.
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29) kuntobille(name of an Indian
game):
This is chess
Not, behind house lane’s
Kuntobille.
Whole body of two legs
Putting bille
from house to house
Nearing itlaming kicking
Reaching that side bank for one moment only
Keeping both legs finding rest
Suddenly turning in one leg
To original place returning
Joining mother house(thavaru mane)
-before maleness matures
Even boys alsoforgeting bdy
Playing females
Maturing play.
Our house
Lane’s this game only
Seing in Africa germany
Though wondered
Bomb polio excetra
No bent leg
Black white yellow all
Play kuntobille everywhere.
Feeling wheather game
Africa in side house
In opposite house germany
Swallod telling chik in soil street
Finding universal form,one minute
Became upset.
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30)should not write about moon and sun:
Brooming house cleanly
Calculating day and night
To intellect siting waiting with
difficulty
From river moon did not arise and come
When came sleep to him.
When rised
Sun in window
Vagabond(alemaari) difference
Of may years
Wrong calander(panchaaga).
With negligence
Scratching body
Yawning
Scattering oven ash
To mind lighting beedi(cigarette)
On stage(jagali)
Moon leaving river
Swallowing star
In net (jaalari) of broken window
Came and got caught.
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Typing Completed on 20.7.2020.
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Sri A .K. Ramanujam poetries.selected from’kannada kavi kaavya
kusuma 24’’ published by sundara
sahithya , chaithra sri,43. kalamandira,5th
cross ,a. na .su road,hanumantha nagara
,bengaluru-560019. Edited ny indira sundar.
Translated
by dr.raveendra hosadurga.
I am
grateful to poet and his family members
and publishers.
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1)
Few
days:
if missed step in corner of house,back bone of small boy
In vegetable gardenif digedbone
skeleton of ancients.
Chanting manthra (holy sybales)
vathapi jirnobhava,even if told
Splitting gut of those who have eaten
and belched
Drying on road,even if rubed after rains
Fountain in in blood eye.
In black kanagile tree red flower
Tearing mother’s stomach (abdomen)
born daughter in early
morning
Without wound in snow alagiridu
(smiling?)(……………?)
all snow drinking red sweet water somebody’s salt.
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2)one American insect:
Lady bug
Red enamel body insect
American insect
Near spring(vasantha) one birth
To Wing of gulaganji(……………….?)
Five black dots.
Sixth black dot is
Head
Eye in
Head
existing two hairs are
mustache
at the tip of mush world
touch
to this lady bug
mother lady bug
kid to
tnis
food
sleep
fear of fire
thirst.
Masturbation
Blood
Tube
Cell
For amoeba this is
Six leg ideal.
For mosquito
Elephant.
On seing
From tip of hand figure cone
Red girigattale(…………?) becoming
dust
Flied off
While flying it’s wing
Might have sounded.
To this ear of gross body
Was not heard
For sparrow
This is very much likeful.
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2)
Art
and life beauty:
In dusty street of madhure
This lepper’s this
Face is broken
No nose to face.
No figure to palm
No heel to leg.
To that paste around eye
Mosquito.
Ulcer is n.aga flower
For peacock coloured house flies
By side in wife’s neck new thaali(sacred
neck chain)
Behind him is temple door
Apsare (divine dame)of centuries centuries.
Below broken nose
Sculpture scripture’s thirty second formula.
Fiting smile.
Period is khilji’s grad son.
Even in broken thigh three posture(thribhanga).
Coin between thighs
On it thamil pokarii’s(poli)
Sanskrit.
Myself remembering both these
Did speech on life and art
In America
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4)this in that:
In between forests tree
Grass in cement split
Finel cut (greenish) kotthambari leaf
In American market
5)one among five elements(panchebhuthas):
Covering green algae (paachi?)of peace
Lotus pond:cholera if drunk
Life river: on that bank
Discharged(excreted) thengolalu chakkuli menses-
Bath all soap watercarrying
flowing
Unattached life.
After seing seing this
How to drink?
Govern peopleoutside town building stage(katte?)
Filtering all panchagavya(holy
cow urine)
Purifying In net of pipes in town
Within limited time let day time
three hours
Only tap water.
Pure is true.
But bitter in mouth
,for grand father’s ceremoney
This is mpure.fishes won’t leave in this
All rice and rasam
Punjent(ghaatu) smell of chlorine.
If one is like this in five elements(panchabhuthas)
Tell what to do.
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6) lust (kama):
Hey lust
In sentence you are untalkable(avaachya?) you are
Remaining people’s direction
direction cloth(dik+ambara)
You are
For ever no
Full stop
First there
Not end.
Quoting the dead once
Like quotation mark
Not krouncha birds pair
On upper branch of rushi sentences.
You are
Below
Not past but future
You are middle of middle
(middle of waist)
Thread of bow of shunashyepa
Not got back bone bow
Not wonder
In it’s lightning leg toe tipno kumkuma
Not question.
Standing on small ball
Doing circus single leg’s
Not curved(bent) body you are
Speech only is linga of light
You are bud of dark.
To you
Who has no end and beginning
Front and back.
In between
Dualities
Beginingless
Infinet
Partless ranga’s
Linga
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7)one umbrella ,one watch:
Our father to me
In childhood only
Brought one small umbrella,
One watch.
He six feet
Above him two three feet
His umbrella.
Because of this
I am three feet
short
while walking in rain by side
all body sprinkling.
While going
wet on left side,while coming wet
on right side.
His girigao chappal(footwear)
Mud droplets thrown by
Each step ad step
From leg to toe
By spokes of umbrella
Even after stoppage of rain
Drop drop rain
Upon my head
Telling ayyo pity(papa) father
like a short fellow
Bent and held umbrella down
There was much laugh to me.
But if he downs umbrella
difficulty to
my eye, nose ,neck
tip of spokes(sticks) of umbrella,
were pecking kok kok
it is very difficult
to walk under my father’s
umbrella.
Therefore he brought umbrella,
Along with let there be
Watch also
Brought and gace.
After getting new umbrella
Under rain his umbrella
Under his umbrella
my umbrella.
But brother playing sword style
Broke stick of umbrella.
In one weak’s storm on Sunday
It’s black cloth also
Became
Inside out.
Mooved for one week and stoped
For anger myself
Keeping in betal leaf arecanut grinding
kottana(………..?)
One day crushed.
Mother
beaiting and
scolding me
broomed off
it’s face,wheel,spring,hand led
many days
pity(papa)
our two teethed protruded
(bochchu)mouth’s
grand
mother,crushing eating betal leaf and arecanut,
pullangayunde
used to tell why ramu crushed
teeth or wheel of clock and kept.
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8) two egg:
From childhood
to me
sunlight butterfly
housefly of jagery
sugar ant
very much likings
holdingdelicately
removing wingspreading angle of leg
they lying supine
beating hand legs
my
mind given
cycling head down
wings of butterfly yellow colour
smearing to figure
myself became
biology teacher
from age threeseing sky
in mysuru window
seing dream of aeroplane
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9) got again:
At night
On face bangle shaking
Played figure.
Nose
Two eyeroll of ear
underground(tunnelsuranga)
Since morning tear minute minute
Charapara
Grown
Nustach and beard
Cracked December peel(thogate) lip
Single hair on mole
Again
Got.
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10)other use of glass:
On rosing in morning in bed glass
Pricked.
Glass in
Banion.in nikker
Glass bangle piece.
Green,yellow,red
Broken circles geometry loop(vanki)
Sharp tip,
Selecting lifting(picking)
Son weeping in after noon
Putting mirror in tube
Did kelidoscope
And gave.
Became figure
Peculiar.
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11)natural:
Naturally
What ever is hungry and eaten
telling svaha
Are all havis(offer to fire) sir
Going coming breath itsels is
manthra
Is sarigama magarisa
From houseto street from street to house
Daily walking is pradakshine(round)
Sleeping by tiring,drinking itself is
Is sastanga(eight part
uniting to female as male,to male
as female
two back’s four feet(leg) becomes
bhutha(……….?) god.
Yoga of invitation of coming on
body(shaking)
When fallen liberation
When rised rebirth
In between
Birth and birth.
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12) to poetry without word:
O poetry without word
When vadiraja carried wet putti(hasi kadale)
Vessel
Rising on shoulder
from back eating that putti(kadale)
horse faced
on both arms
daily pressed anf left
horse-
paws seal:
without face and body
back god’s smell of gas of
putti(hasikadale):
not fixed laala(iron piece
for protecting feet)
weight of gorasu (khura)leg
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13)this role is yours:
Existing
Body
Talk
Shining rotating this air
doom(gumbaz)
In and out flowing drying water
Father mother
She her nine holes
Her daughter
That tree’s
Kritthika star.
When nothing is ours
In this condition
This
Only is
Yours ayya?
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14)still three bhuthas(devils, ghosts):
Father hit. I killed my son.
Mother kept at night and forgotten
kiss
To champaka house girl joining
in sleep only
Remaining
Morning came up to my daughter.
Carries teeth boy
In lane
Defeacating
Touching my sense organs
Postponing my marriage date
Further
Arising(awakening ) his three wifes
One after another
He man (valiant) heating his iron
Put (drew) African burns
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15)twins:
Ah seniors had done
Keeping her dress to she
Keeing her dress to this(ivalu)
Wanted to sing.
You know what happened?
She tearing this’s saree
This(ivalu) tearing her saree
Wanted to run
Thiking let it be spoiled
Making to wear his dress to this(ivalu)
Making to wear her dress to him
Wanted to see.
Bad people peeping in window seing
Teasing as rasika(interested)
Market gathered.
Police troop coming
Enquiring my sheela(chastity)
Paid penalty.
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16)colour:
To kid birthing just
Sky blue eye.
In winter dark
Orange kept as karthika bulb
Garland
Full of mouth wound
severe demon’s pan (thambula)
turmeric mutthaide (married not
widowd) body ful
green bangles.
Before leaving milk
Smeared breast
Neem dried black green.
In cover Blanket of rainy season
square of peculiar minded.
Wishpering talks white –
efficiency of letters.
Of mirror
To flock of parrots
Marriage together.
To sterile branch of severe summer
Cross of doll and rambhe’s (divine
dame)
Cross bud ‘s good function(osage)
Kept in yellowgrass mass
End of old seed splitting(buding)
Ten green scorpions pregnant.
This much of colour to eye
For few intellects only two colours
Swallowd colour:
Black
White
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17)migration (coming) song:
For sake of chills from north to south every year flying
Thousands of miles migratimg coming
family9okkalu)
Fall of stools (hike)of birds on home coming path
To step step forest grown avari(grain,avare grain)
In high forest path accepted.branch in sleep
Seed fallen again again,found in earth
forest
In forest,awaken green
Sky shaking dark leaf.
When illusion misses step
real sheep eating paper lion-
Body.side house boy lost cycle –wheel
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18)if that bird is wanted:
There was king in Mongolia
When he had gone to attack
some outside country(lifting army)
hearing one bird song
as that song was wanted by him
catching bird for that song
along with bird lifting nest
branch under nest
branch to branch
for branch tree
root under tree
soil around root
that town
water
non monsoon rain(hind rain,later six)
that region
country
that whole state(kingdom)
willing to lift all
gathering existing all
elephants,horse,chariot army
winning whole state
joining to his kingdom
did not go to his house only
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19) patthe(finding out):
From mohalla to
Street
from street
to house
in house
up to me
police dog
missed khydi(……………)
holding old jail smell
like smelling
searching
old friend of other town
asking unacquainted people
made out(traced out)
address
likewisw
within me
your
continuous enquiry
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20)if dream falls to intelligent:
In old china to
one intelligent
Dream every night.
Each night
Becoming musumbi coloured
Butterfly,from lotus
To sevanthige(flower)
Fron sevanthi to lotus
As though flying in air
Dream.
Many nights becoming butterfly
Finding dream at end
Wheather man or butterfly
Is Butterfly of night
Or day (time)man’s dream
Wheather during day
night’s dream
without knowing
got illused.
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21)thousand leg:
Making hole(bila) in life
Rolling insect life
Some how twisting
Thousand legs becoming four
Some how knowing back and front
Standing
On back legslifting head
This animal seing;
Now earth(land) is now country
Forest is one department
Now colour is one varna
One colour if husband dies
If party fails another colour
Red black kaavi(saffron)
Shirt odf different languages
Elephant teeth ivory
Ash sacred ash(vibhuthi)
If blown dull ash
Eyeful of bhasmasura
Mill of mohini
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22)explosion:
White room’s near white bed
White nurse coming
To sleeping black buttock
Pricking needle
Keeping medicine
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
Zero
Waiting for explosion
Countind
in descend
becoming lazy
where ever gone
myself myself
coming along
with
myself also
in mata mata(severe)
meditation
became anthardhana
(merged)
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23) fragrance(smell ,sandal):
In front of our house grown up
with our love
See cosmos flower.
Smellless flower!
To whom needed?
Jasmine’s kanakaambara
Let go
Rose?
Like this broke nose
Teacher.
When smelled
To smell of smellless
Breath caught.
Rubbing body washing
Giving enema to nose
Applied sandal
Jasmine’s white
Champaka’s yellow
Small full
Body of wife
Smell
Full
Smellless bad odour
Hit blowd.
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25)without forgetting:
Mother somewhere in bengaluru
Three months after
Dieng
Day and nigh
Tik tik
Cutting smallly
When dark
Radium digits
Twinkling
hand leg
my son daghter’s
dava dava
hand pulse
embracing
running
without missing.
Two wrist watches sent
By her :
Daily morning
Key should be given
Without forgetting.-
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26) this is flowing water:
To vagina of fish
Air bindu falling
This amin easing
Coming to bank
Kept see:
Hundred namas to water
Yungpsi Volga Yamuna
Gulf khaari ganga water
Thirtha(holy water) enjalu
(saliva) cattle’s urine
This is flowing warer means
Teared spilled dayadi(cousins) wet land
Border right,fence jumping gonda((………….?)
Supreme court case.
If shell insect dies
Full of mahabharatha
Full of ramanavami
of opposite house
rama rama
cone sound.
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Gonde=ornament,bunch,
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27)shadow:
Though this much os age
Still needed lilk breast
Bottle.
If goes to latrine
Should see what colour
Excetra should be seen.
Though thirty two
Grand children
Still sugar seep
If rised mujugara(
hesitation?................)
Tickling sensation on sides(pakke)
Handful of joy
Inside nikker
Love means love
Blue light of street
When suddenly
Puts off
Shadow of gumma
Wearing coat
Though epochs have passed
After death of father and mother
Distant face
Rising step
If comes near.
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28)to nose:
Kissing to nose
If nose is rubbed
In midst of
Court file fees
Also
Blood circulation.
To this diabetic
Dead body(cadaver)
New new charm
In intoxication of
Sucking bottle
Also
If told gold
If silver bangle(kadaga) is shown
If mirror is made to shine
Eye this much broad
If bangle is shaked(shook)
Toy(giliki0sound of
Old cradle.
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29) kuntobille(name of an Indian
game):
This is chess
Not, behind house lane’s
Kuntobille.
Whole body of two legs
Putting bille
from house to house
Nearing itlaming kicking
Reaching that side bank for one moment only
Keeping both legs finding rest
Suddenly turning in one leg
To original place returning
Joining mother house(thavaru mane)
-before maleness matures
Even boys alsoforgeting bdy
Playing females
Maturing play.
Our house
Lane’s this game only
Seing in Africa germany
Though wondered
Bomb polio excetra
No bent leg
Black white yellow all
Play kuntobille everywhere.
Feeling wheather game
Africa in side house
In opposite house germany
Swallod telling chik in soil street
Finding universal form,one minute
Became upset.
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30)should not write about moon and sun:
Brooming house cleanly
Calculating day and night
To intellect siting waiting with
difficulty
From river moon did not arise and come
When came sleep to him.
When rised
Sun in window
Vagabond(alemaari) difference
Of may years
Wrong calander(panchaaga).
With negligence
Scratching body
Yawning
Scattering oven ash
To mind lighting beedi(cigarette)
On stage(jagali)
Moon leaving river
Swallowing star
In net (jaalari) of broken window
Came and got caught.
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Typing Completed on 20.7.2020.
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Sri A .K. Ramanujam poetries.selected from’kannada kavi kaavya
kusuma 24’’ published by sundara
sahithya , chaithra sri,43. kalamandira,5th
cross ,a. na .su road,hanumantha nagara
,bengaluru-560019. Edited ny indira sundar.
Translated
by dr.raveendra hosadurga.
I am
grateful to poet and his family members
and publishers.
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1)
Few
days:
if missed step in corner of house,back bone of small boy
In vegetable gardenif digedbone
skeleton of ancients.
Chanting manthra (holy sybales)
vathapi jirnobhava,even if told
Splitting gut of those who have eaten
and belched
Drying on road,even if rubed after rains
Fountain in in blood eye.
In black kanagile tree red flower
Tearing mother’s stomach (abdomen)
born daughter in early
morning
Without wound in snow alagiridu
(smiling?)(……………?)
all snow drinking red sweet water somebody’s salt.
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2)one American insect:
Lady bug
Red enamel body insect
American insect
Near spring(vasantha) one birth
To Wing of gulaganji(……………….?)
Five black dots.
Sixth black dot is
Head
Eye in
Head
existing two hairs are
mustache
at the tip of mush world
touch
to this lady bug
mother lady bug
kid to
tnis
food
sleep
fear of fire
thirst.
Masturbation
Blood
Tube
Cell
For amoeba this is
Six leg ideal.
For mosquito
Elephant.
On seing
From tip of hand figure cone
Red girigattale(…………?) becoming
dust
Flied off
While flying it’s wing
Might have sounded.
To this ear of gross body
Was not heard
For sparrow
This is very much likeful.
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2)
Art
and life beauty:
In dusty street of madhure
This lepper’s this
Face is broken
No nose to face.
No figure to palm
No heel to leg.
To that paste around eye
Mosquito.
Ulcer is n.aga flower
For peacock coloured house flies
By side in wife’s neck new thaali(sacred
neck chain)
Behind him is temple door
Apsare (divine dame)of centuries centuries.
Below broken nose
Sculpture scripture’s thirty second formula.
Fiting smile.
Period is khilji’s grad son.
Even in broken thigh three posture(thribhanga).
Coin between thighs
On it thamil pokarii’s(poli)
Sanskrit.
Myself remembering both these
Did speech on life and art
In America
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4)this in that:
In between forests tree
Grass in cement split
Finel cut (greenish) kotthambari leaf
In American market
5)one among five elements(panchebhuthas):
Covering green algae (paachi?)of peace
Lotus pond:cholera if drunk
Life river: on that bank
Discharged(excreted) thengolalu chakkuli menses-
Bath all soap watercarrying
flowing
Unattached life.
After seing seing this
How to drink?
Govern peopleoutside town building stage(katte?)
Filtering all panchagavya(holy
cow urine)
Purifying In net of pipes in town
Within limited time let day time
three hours
Only tap water.
Pure is true.
But bitter in mouth
,for grand father’s ceremoney
This is mpure.fishes won’t leave in this
All rice and rasam
Punjent(ghaatu) smell of chlorine.
If one is like this in five elements(panchabhuthas)
Tell what to do.
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6) lust (kama):
Hey lust
In sentence you are untalkable(avaachya?) you are
Remaining people’s direction
direction cloth(dik+ambara)
You are
For ever no
Full stop
First there
Not end.
Quoting the dead once
Like quotation mark
Not krouncha birds pair
On upper branch of rushi sentences.
You are
Below
Not past but future
You are middle of middle
(middle of waist)
Thread of bow of shunashyepa
Not got back bone bow
Not wonder
In it’s lightning leg toe tipno kumkuma
Not question.
Standing on small ball
Doing circus single leg’s
Not curved(bent) body you are
Speech only is linga of light
You are bud of dark.
To you
Who has no end and beginning
Front and back.
In between
Dualities
Beginingless
Infinet
Partless ranga’s
Linga
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7)one umbrella ,one watch:
Our father to me
In childhood only
Brought one small umbrella,
One watch.
He six feet
Above him two three feet
His umbrella.
Because of this
I am three feet
short
while walking in rain by side
all body sprinkling.
While going
wet on left side,while coming wet
on right side.
His girigao chappal(footwear)
Mud droplets thrown by
Each step ad step
From leg to toe
By spokes of umbrella
Even after stoppage of rain
Drop drop rain
Upon my head
Telling ayyo pity(papa) father
like a short fellow
Bent and held umbrella down
There was much laugh to me.
But if he downs umbrella
difficulty to
my eye, nose ,neck
tip of spokes(sticks) of umbrella,
were pecking kok kok
it is very difficult
to walk under my father’s
umbrella.
Therefore he brought umbrella,
Along with let there be
Watch also
Brought and gace.
After getting new umbrella
Under rain his umbrella
Under his umbrella
my umbrella.
But brother playing sword style
Broke stick of umbrella.
In one weak’s storm on Sunday
It’s black cloth also
Became
Inside out.
Mooved for one week and stoped
For anger myself
Keeping in betal leaf arecanut grinding
kottana(………..?)
One day crushed.
Mother
beaiting and
scolding me
broomed off
it’s face,wheel,spring,hand led
many days
pity(papa)
our two teethed protruded
(bochchu)mouth’s
grand
mother,crushing eating betal leaf and arecanut,
pullangayunde
used to tell why ramu crushed
teeth or wheel of clock and kept.
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8) two egg:
From childhood
to me
sunlight butterfly
housefly of jagery
sugar ant
very much likings
holdingdelicately
removing wingspreading angle of leg
they lying supine
beating hand legs
my
mind given
cycling head down
wings of butterfly yellow colour
smearing to figure
myself became
biology teacher
from age threeseing sky
in mysuru window
seing dream of aeroplane
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9) got again:
At night
On face bangle shaking
Played figure.
Nose
Two eyeroll of ear
underground(tunnelsuranga)
Since morning tear minute minute
Charapara
Grown
Nustach and beard
Cracked December peel(thogate) lip
Single hair on mole
Again
Got.
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10)other use of glass:
On rosing in morning in bed glass
Pricked.
Glass in
Banion.in nikker
Glass bangle piece.
Green,yellow,red
Broken circles geometry loop(vanki)
Sharp tip,
Selecting lifting(picking)
Son weeping in after noon
Putting mirror in tube
Did kelidoscope
And gave.
Became figure
Peculiar.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
11)natural:
Naturally
What ever is hungry and eaten
telling svaha
Are all havis(offer to fire) sir
Going coming breath itsels is
manthra
Is sarigama magarisa
From houseto street from street to house
Daily walking is pradakshine(round)
Sleeping by tiring,drinking itself is
Is sastanga(eight part
uniting to female as male,to male
as female
two back’s four feet(leg) becomes
bhutha(……….?) god.
Yoga of invitation of coming on
body(shaking)
When fallen liberation
When rised rebirth
In between
Birth and birth.
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12) to poetry without word:
O poetry without word
When vadiraja carried wet putti(hasi kadale)
Vessel
Rising on shoulder
from back eating that putti(kadale)
horse faced
on both arms
daily pressed anf left
horse-
paws seal:
without face and body
back god’s smell of gas of
putti(hasikadale):
not fixed laala(iron piece
for protecting feet)
weight of gorasu (khura)leg
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13)this role is yours:
Existing
Body
Talk
Shining rotating this air
doom(gumbaz)
In and out flowing drying water
Father mother
She her nine holes
Her daughter
That tree’s
Kritthika star.
When nothing is ours
In this condition
This
Only is
Yours ayya?
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14)still three bhuthas(devils, ghosts):
Father hit. I killed my son.
Mother kept at night and forgotten
kiss
To champaka house girl joining
in sleep only
Remaining
Morning came up to my daughter.
Carries teeth boy
In lane
Defeacating
Touching my sense organs
Postponing my marriage date
Further
Arising(awakening ) his three wifes
One after another
He man (valiant) heating his iron
Put (drew) African burns
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15)twins:
Ah seniors had done
Keeping her dress to she
Keeing her dress to this(ivalu)
Wanted to sing.
You know what happened?
She tearing this’s saree
This(ivalu) tearing her saree
Wanted to run
Thiking let it be spoiled
Making to wear his dress to this(ivalu)
Making to wear her dress to him
Wanted to see.
Bad people peeping in window seing
Teasing as rasika(interested)
Market gathered.
Police troop coming
Enquiring my sheela(chastity)
Paid penalty.
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16)colour:
To kid birthing just
Sky blue eye.
In winter dark
Orange kept as karthika bulb
Garland
Full of mouth wound
severe demon’s pan (thambula)
turmeric mutthaide (married not
widowd) body ful
green bangles.
Before leaving milk
Smeared breast
Neem dried black green.
In cover Blanket of rainy season
square of peculiar minded.
Wishpering talks white –
efficiency of letters.
Of mirror
To flock of parrots
Marriage together.
To sterile branch of severe summer
Cross of doll and rambhe’s (divine
dame)
Cross bud ‘s good function(osage)
Kept in yellowgrass mass
End of old seed splitting(buding)
Ten green scorpions pregnant.
This much of colour to eye
For few intellects only two colours
Swallowd colour:
Black
White
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17)migration (coming) song:
For sake of chills from north to south every year flying
Thousands of miles migratimg coming
family9okkalu)
Fall of stools (hike)of birds on home coming path
To step step forest grown avari(grain,avare grain)
In high forest path accepted.branch in sleep
Seed fallen again again,found in earth
forest
In forest,awaken green
Sky shaking dark leaf.
When illusion misses step
real sheep eating paper lion-
Body.side house boy lost cycle –wheel
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
18)if that bird is wanted:
There was king in Mongolia
When he had gone to attack
some outside country(lifting army)
hearing one bird song
as that song was wanted by him
catching bird for that song
along with bird lifting nest
branch under nest
branch to branch
for branch tree
root under tree
soil around root
that town
water
non monsoon rain(hind rain,later six)
that region
country
that whole state(kingdom)
willing to lift all
gathering existing all
elephants,horse,chariot army
winning whole state
joining to his kingdom
did not go to his house only
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
19) patthe(finding out):
From mohalla to
Street
from street
to house
in house
up to me
police dog
missed khydi(……………)
holding old jail smell
like smelling
searching
old friend of other town
asking unacquainted people
made out(traced out)
address
likewisw
within me
your
continuous enquiry
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
20)if dream falls to intelligent:
In old china to
one intelligent
Dream every night.
Each night
Becoming musumbi coloured
Butterfly,from lotus
To sevanthige(flower)
Fron sevanthi to lotus
As though flying in air
Dream.
Many nights becoming butterfly
Finding dream at end
Wheather man or butterfly
Is Butterfly of night
Or day (time)man’s dream
Wheather during day
night’s dream
without knowing
got illused.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
21)thousand leg:
Making hole(bila) in life
Rolling insect life
Some how twisting
Thousand legs becoming four
Some how knowing back and front
Standing
On back legslifting head
This animal seing;
Now earth(land) is now country
Forest is one department
Now colour is one varna
One colour if husband dies
If party fails another colour
Red black kaavi(saffron)
Shirt odf different languages
Elephant teeth ivory
Ash sacred ash(vibhuthi)
If blown dull ash
Eyeful of bhasmasura
Mill of mohini
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22)explosion:
White room’s near white bed
White nurse coming
To sleeping black buttock
Pricking needle
Keeping medicine
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
Zero
Waiting for explosion
Countind
in descend
becoming lazy
where ever gone
myself myself
coming along
with
myself also
in mata mata(severe)
meditation
became anthardhana
(merged)
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23) fragrance(smell ,sandal):
In front of our house grown up
with our love
See cosmos flower.
Smellless flower!
To whom needed?
Jasmine’s kanakaambara
Let go
Rose?
Like this broke nose
Teacher.
When smelled
To smell of smellless
Breath caught.
Rubbing body washing
Giving enema to nose
Applied sandal
Jasmine’s white
Champaka’s yellow
Small full
Body of wife
Smell
Full
Smellless bad odour
Hit blowd.
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25)without forgetting:
Mother somewhere in bengaluru
Three months after
Dieng
Day and nigh
Tik tik
Cutting smallly
When dark
Radium digits
Twinkling
hand leg
my son daghter’s
dava dava
hand pulse
embracing
running
without missing.
Two wrist watches sent
By her :
Daily morning
Key should be given
Without forgetting.-
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26) this is flowing water:
To vagina of fish
Air bindu falling
This amin easing
Coming to bank
Kept see:
Hundred namas to water
Yungpsi Volga Yamuna
Gulf khaari ganga water
Thirtha(holy water) enjalu
(saliva) cattle’s urine
This is flowing warer means
Teared spilled dayadi(cousins) wet land
Border right,fence jumping gonda((………….?)
Supreme court case.
If shell insect dies
Full of mahabharatha
Full of ramanavami
of opposite house
rama rama
cone sound.
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Gonde=ornament,bunch,
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27)shadow:
Though this much os age
Still needed lilk breast
Bottle.
If goes to latrine
Should see what colour
Excetra should be seen.
Though thirty two
Grand children
Still sugar seep
If rised mujugara(
hesitation?................)
Tickling sensation on sides(pakke)
Handful of joy
Inside nikker
Love means love
Blue light of street
When suddenly
Puts off
Shadow of gumma
Wearing coat
Though epochs have passed
After death of father and mother
Distant face
Rising step
If comes near.
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28)to nose:
Kissing to nose
If nose is rubbed
In midst of
Court file fees
Also
Blood circulation.
To this diabetic
Dead body(cadaver)
New new charm
In intoxication of
Sucking bottle
Also
If told gold
If silver bangle(kadaga) is shown
If mirror is made to shine
Eye this much broad
If bangle is shaked(shook)
Toy(giliki0sound of
Old cradle.
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29) kuntobille(name of an Indian
game):
This is chess
Not, behind house lane’s
Kuntobille.
Whole body of two legs
Putting bille
from house to house
Nearing itlaming kicking
Reaching that side bank for one moment only
Keeping both legs finding rest
Suddenly turning in one leg
To original place returning
Joining mother house(thavaru mane)
-before maleness matures
Even boys alsoforgeting bdy
Playing females
Maturing play.
Our house
Lane’s this game only
Seing in Africa germany
Though wondered
Bomb polio excetra
No bent leg
Black white yellow all
Play kuntobille everywhere.
Feeling wheather game
Africa in side house
In opposite house germany
Swallod telling chik in soil street
Finding universal form,one minute
Became upset.
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30)should not write about moon and sun:
Brooming house cleanly
Calculating day and night
To intellect siting waiting with
difficulty
From river moon did not arise and come
When came sleep to him.
When rised
Sun in window
Vagabond(alemaari) difference
Of may years
Wrong calander(panchaaga).
With negligence
Scratching body
Yawning
Scattering oven ash
To mind lighting beedi(cigarette)
On stage(jagali)
Moon leaving river
Swallowing star
In net (jaalari) of broken window
Came and got caught.
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Typing Completed on 20.7.2020.
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Sri A .K. Ramanujam poetries.selected from’kannada kavi kaavya
kusuma 24’’ published by sundara
sahithya , chaithra sri,43. kalamandira,5th
cross ,a. na .su road,hanumantha nagara
,bengaluru-560019. Edited ny indira sundar.
Translated
by dr.raveendra hosadurga.
I am
grateful to poet and his family members
and publishers.
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1)
Few
days:
if missed step in corner of house,back bone of small boy
In vegetable gardenif digedbone
skeleton of ancients.
Chanting manthra (holy sybales)
vathapi jirnobhava,even if told
Splitting gut of those who have eaten
and belched
Drying on road,even if rubed after rains
Fountain in in blood eye.
In black kanagile tree red flower
Tearing mother’s stomach (abdomen)
born daughter in early
morning
Without wound in snow alagiridu
(smiling?)(……………?)
all snow drinking red sweet water somebody’s salt.
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2)one American insect:
Lady bug
Red enamel body insect
American insect
Near spring(vasantha) one birth
To Wing of gulaganji(……………….?)
Five black dots.
Sixth black dot is
Head
Eye in
Head
existing two hairs are
mustache
at the tip of mush world
touch
to this lady bug
mother lady bug
kid to
tnis
food
sleep
fear of fire
thirst.
Masturbation
Blood
Tube
Cell
For amoeba this is
Six leg ideal.
For mosquito
Elephant.
On seing
From tip of hand figure cone
Red girigattale(…………?) becoming
dust
Flied off
While flying it’s wing
Might have sounded.
To this ear of gross body
Was not heard
For sparrow
This is very much likeful.
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2)
Art
and life beauty:
In dusty street of madhure
This lepper’s this
Face is broken
No nose to face.
No figure to palm
No heel to leg.
To that paste around eye
Mosquito.
Ulcer is n.aga flower
For peacock coloured house flies
By side in wife’s neck new thaali(sacred
neck chain)
Behind him is temple door
Apsare (divine dame)of centuries centuries.
Below broken nose
Sculpture scripture’s thirty second formula.
Fiting smile.
Period is khilji’s grad son.
Even in broken thigh three posture(thribhanga).
Coin between thighs
On it thamil pokarii’s(poli)
Sanskrit.
Myself remembering both these
Did speech on life and art
In America
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4)this in that:
In between forests tree
Grass in cement split
Finel cut (greenish) kotthambari leaf
In American market
5)one among five elements(panchebhuthas):
Covering green algae (paachi?)of peace
Lotus pond:cholera if drunk
Life river: on that bank
Discharged(excreted) thengolalu chakkuli menses-
Bath all soap watercarrying
flowing
Unattached life.
After seing seing this
How to drink?
Govern peopleoutside town building stage(katte?)
Filtering all panchagavya(holy
cow urine)
Purifying In net of pipes in town
Within limited time let day time
three hours
Only tap water.
Pure is true.
But bitter in mouth
,for grand father’s ceremoney
This is mpure.fishes won’t leave in this
All rice and rasam
Punjent(ghaatu) smell of chlorine.
If one is like this in five elements(panchabhuthas)
Tell what to do.
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6) lust (kama):
Hey lust
In sentence you are untalkable(avaachya?) you are
Remaining people’s direction
direction cloth(dik+ambara)
You are
For ever no
Full stop
First there
Not end.
Quoting the dead once
Like quotation mark
Not krouncha birds pair
On upper branch of rushi sentences.
You are
Below
Not past but future
You are middle of middle
(middle of waist)
Thread of bow of shunashyepa
Not got back bone bow
Not wonder
In it’s lightning leg toe tipno kumkuma
Not question.
Standing on small ball
Doing circus single leg’s
Not curved(bent) body you are
Speech only is linga of light
You are bud of dark.
To you
Who has no end and beginning
Front and back.
In between
Dualities
Beginingless
Infinet
Partless ranga’s
Linga
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7)one umbrella ,one watch:
Our father to me
In childhood only
Brought one small umbrella,
One watch.
He six feet
Above him two three feet
His umbrella.
Because of this
I am three feet
short
while walking in rain by side
all body sprinkling.
While going
wet on left side,while coming wet
on right side.
His girigao chappal(footwear)
Mud droplets thrown by
Each step ad step
From leg to toe
By spokes of umbrella
Even after stoppage of rain
Drop drop rain
Upon my head
Telling ayyo pity(papa) father
like a short fellow
Bent and held umbrella down
There was much laugh to me.
But if he downs umbrella
difficulty to
my eye, nose ,neck
tip of spokes(sticks) of umbrella,
were pecking kok kok
it is very difficult
to walk under my father’s
umbrella.
Therefore he brought umbrella,
Along with let there be
Watch also
Brought and gace.
After getting new umbrella
Under rain his umbrella
Under his umbrella
my umbrella.
But brother playing sword style
Broke stick of umbrella.
In one weak’s storm on Sunday
It’s black cloth also
Became
Inside out.
Mooved for one week and stoped
For anger myself
Keeping in betal leaf arecanut grinding
kottana(………..?)
One day crushed.
Mother
beaiting and
scolding me
broomed off
it’s face,wheel,spring,hand led
many days
pity(papa)
our two teethed protruded
(bochchu)mouth’s
grand
mother,crushing eating betal leaf and arecanut,
pullangayunde
used to tell why ramu crushed
teeth or wheel of clock and kept.
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8) two egg:
From childhood
to me
sunlight butterfly
housefly of jagery
sugar ant
very much likings
holdingdelicately
removing wingspreading angle of leg
they lying supine
beating hand legs
my
mind given
cycling head down
wings of butterfly yellow colour
smearing to figure
myself became
biology teacher
from age threeseing sky
in mysuru window
seing dream of aeroplane
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9) got again:
At night
On face bangle shaking
Played figure.
Nose
Two eyeroll of ear
underground(tunnelsuranga)
Since morning tear minute minute
Charapara
Grown
Nustach and beard
Cracked December peel(thogate) lip
Single hair on mole
Again
Got.
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10)other use of glass:
On rosing in morning in bed glass
Pricked.
Glass in
Banion.in nikker
Glass bangle piece.
Green,yellow,red
Broken circles geometry loop(vanki)
Sharp tip,
Selecting lifting(picking)
Son weeping in after noon
Putting mirror in tube
Did kelidoscope
And gave.
Became figure
Peculiar.
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11)natural:
Naturally
What ever is hungry and eaten
telling svaha
Are all havis(offer to fire) sir
Going coming breath itsels is
manthra
Is sarigama magarisa
From houseto street from street to house
Daily walking is pradakshine(round)
Sleeping by tiring,drinking itself is
Is sastanga(eight part
uniting to female as male,to male
as female
two back’s four feet(leg) becomes
bhutha(……….?) god.
Yoga of invitation of coming on
body(shaking)
When fallen liberation
When rised rebirth
In between
Birth and birth.
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12) to poetry without word:
O poetry without word
When vadiraja carried wet putti(hasi kadale)
Vessel
Rising on shoulder
from back eating that putti(kadale)
horse faced
on both arms
daily pressed anf left
horse-
paws seal:
without face and body
back god’s smell of gas of
putti(hasikadale):
not fixed laala(iron piece
for protecting feet)
weight of gorasu (khura)leg
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13)this role is yours:
Existing
Body
Talk
Shining rotating this air
doom(gumbaz)
In and out flowing drying water
Father mother
She her nine holes
Her daughter
That tree’s
Kritthika star.
When nothing is ours
In this condition
This
Only is
Yours ayya?
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14)still three bhuthas(devils, ghosts):
Father hit. I killed my son.
Mother kept at night and forgotten
kiss
To champaka house girl joining
in sleep only
Remaining
Morning came up to my daughter.
Carries teeth boy
In lane
Defeacating
Touching my sense organs
Postponing my marriage date
Further
Arising(awakening ) his three wifes
One after another
He man (valiant) heating his iron
Put (drew) African burns
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15)twins:
Ah seniors had done
Keeping her dress to she
Keeing her dress to this(ivalu)
Wanted to sing.
You know what happened?
She tearing this’s saree
This(ivalu) tearing her saree
Wanted to run
Thiking let it be spoiled
Making to wear his dress to this(ivalu)
Making to wear her dress to him
Wanted to see.
Bad people peeping in window seing
Teasing as rasika(interested)
Market gathered.
Police troop coming
Enquiring my sheela(chastity)
Paid penalty.
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16)colour:
To kid birthing just
Sky blue eye.
In winter dark
Orange kept as karthika bulb
Garland
Full of mouth wound
severe demon’s pan (thambula)
turmeric mutthaide (married not
widowd) body ful
green bangles.
Before leaving milk
Smeared breast
Neem dried black green.
In cover Blanket of rainy season
square of peculiar minded.
Wishpering talks white –
efficiency of letters.
Of mirror
To flock of parrots
Marriage together.
To sterile branch of severe summer
Cross of doll and rambhe’s (divine
dame)
Cross bud ‘s good function(osage)
Kept in yellowgrass mass
End of old seed splitting(buding)
Ten green scorpions pregnant.
This much of colour to eye
For few intellects only two colours
Swallowd colour:
Black
White
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17)migration (coming) song:
For sake of chills from north to south every year flying
Thousands of miles migratimg coming
family9okkalu)
Fall of stools (hike)of birds on home coming path
To step step forest grown avari(grain,avare grain)
In high forest path accepted.branch in sleep
Seed fallen again again,found in earth
forest
In forest,awaken green
Sky shaking dark leaf.
When illusion misses step
real sheep eating paper lion-
Body.side house boy lost cycle –wheel
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18)if that bird is wanted:
There was king in Mongolia
When he had gone to attack
some outside country(lifting army)
hearing one bird song
as that song was wanted by him
catching bird for that song
along with bird lifting nest
branch under nest
branch to branch
for branch tree
root under tree
soil around root
that town
water
non monsoon rain(hind rain,later six)
that region
country
that whole state(kingdom)
willing to lift all
gathering existing all
elephants,horse,chariot army
winning whole state
joining to his kingdom
did not go to his house only
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19) patthe(finding out):
From mohalla to
Street
from street
to house
in house
up to me
police dog
missed khydi(……………)
holding old jail smell
like smelling
searching
old friend of other town
asking unacquainted people
made out(traced out)
address
likewisw
within me
your
continuous enquiry
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20)if dream falls to intelligent:
In old china to
one intelligent
Dream every night.
Each night
Becoming musumbi coloured
Butterfly,from lotus
To sevanthige(flower)
Fron sevanthi to lotus
As though flying in air
Dream.
Many nights becoming butterfly
Finding dream at end
Wheather man or butterfly
Is Butterfly of night
Or day (time)man’s dream
Wheather during day
night’s dream
without knowing
got illused.
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21)thousand leg:
Making hole(bila) in life
Rolling insect life
Some how twisting
Thousand legs becoming four
Some how knowing back and front
Standing
On back legslifting head
This animal seing;
Now earth(land) is now country
Forest is one department
Now colour is one varna
One colour if husband dies
If party fails another colour
Red black kaavi(saffron)
Shirt odf different languages
Elephant teeth ivory
Ash sacred ash(vibhuthi)
If blown dull ash
Eyeful of bhasmasura
Mill of mohini
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22)explosion:
White room’s near white bed
White nurse coming
To sleeping black buttock
Pricking needle
Keeping medicine
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
Zero
Waiting for explosion
Countind
in descend
becoming lazy
where ever gone
myself myself
coming along
with
myself also
in mata mata(severe)
meditation
became anthardhana
(merged)
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23) fragrance(smell ,sandal):
In front of our house grown up
with our love
See cosmos flower.
Smellless flower!
To whom needed?
Jasmine’s kanakaambara
Let go
Rose?
Like this broke nose
Teacher.
When smelled
To smell of smellless
Breath caught.
Rubbing body washing
Giving enema to nose
Applied sandal
Jasmine’s white
Champaka’s yellow
Small full
Body of wife
Smell
Full
Smellless bad odour
Hit blowd.
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25)without forgetting:
Mother somewhere in bengaluru
Three months after
Dieng
Day and nigh
Tik tik
Cutting smallly
When dark
Radium digits
Twinkling
hand leg
my son daghter’s
dava dava
hand pulse
embracing
running
without missing.
Two wrist watches sent
By her :
Daily morning
Key should be given
Without forgetting.-
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26) this is flowing water:
To vagina of fish
Air bindu falling
This amin easing
Coming to bank
Kept see:
Hundred namas to water
Yungpsi Volga Yamuna
Gulf khaari ganga water
Thirtha(holy water) enjalu
(saliva) cattle’s urine
This is flowing warer means
Teared spilled dayadi(cousins) wet land
Border right,fence jumping gonda((………….?)
Supreme court case.
If shell insect dies
Full of mahabharatha
Full of ramanavami
of opposite house
rama rama
cone sound.
.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,s
Gonde=ornament,bunch,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
27)shadow:
Though this much os age
Still needed lilk breast
Bottle.
If goes to latrine
Should see what colour
Excetra should be seen.
Though thirty two
Grand children
Still sugar seep
If rised mujugara(
hesitation?................)
Tickling sensation on sides(pakke)
Handful of joy
Inside nikker
Love means love
Blue light of street
When suddenly
Puts off
Shadow of gumma
Wearing coat
Though epochs have passed
After death of father and mother
Distant face
Rising step
If comes near.
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28)to nose:
Kissing to nose
If nose is rubbed
In midst of
Court file fees
Also
Blood circulation.
To this diabetic
Dead body(cadaver)
New new charm
In intoxication of
Sucking bottle
Also
If told gold
If silver bangle(kadaga) is shown
If mirror is made to shine
Eye this much broad
If bangle is shaked(shook)
Toy(giliki0sound of
Old cradle.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
29) kuntobille(name of an Indian
game):
This is chess
Not, behind house lane’s
Kuntobille.
Whole body of two legs
Putting bille
from house to house
Nearing itlaming kicking
Reaching that side bank for one moment only
Keeping both legs finding rest
Suddenly turning in one leg
To original place returning
Joining mother house(thavaru mane)
-before maleness matures
Even boys alsoforgeting bdy
Playing females
Maturing play.
Our house
Lane’s this game only
Seing in Africa germany
Though wondered
Bomb polio excetra
No bent leg
Black white yellow all
Play kuntobille everywhere.
Feeling wheather game
Africa in side house
In opposite house germany
Swallod telling chik in soil street
Finding universal form,one minute
Became upset.
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30)should not write about moon and sun:
Brooming house cleanly
Calculating day and night
To intellect siting waiting with
difficulty
From river moon did not arise and come
When came sleep to him.
When rised
Sun in window
Vagabond(alemaari) difference
Of may years
Wrong calander(panchaaga).
With negligence
Scratching body
Yawning
Scattering oven ash
To mind lighting beedi(cigarette)
On stage(jagali)
Moon leaving river
Swallowing star
In net (jaalari) of broken window
Came and got caught.
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Typing Completed on 20.7.2020.
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