dr siddhalingaiah -poetris translated by dr.raveendra hosadurga selected from poetry collection'meravanige'samagrakaavya published by ankitha pusthaka

Selective translation of poetries of dr.siddhalingaiah,famous poet,from poetry collection ‘meravanige’(procession)published by ankitha prakashana,53,gandhi bazar main road,basavanagudi,bengaluru560004. I am grateful to poet and his family members,publishers.published in 2000. Dr .siddhalingaiah –meravanige part 1 (new poetries-2000): 1) Nature: Sun of difficulties rises daily Sets in festival of pain Boiling blue ocean seven hooded kalinga Frozen pain in sky Rise diging womb rule parts parts eating mother’s patience all childern All god –men drown and rise bathing Has not dried up her chest’s moon light Here these hills coming from somewhere Why did they stand in deep thoughts Having milk amrutha these ponds(rivers) and streams Why did they leave embrace of hill and flowd In your sea body in wave of sympathy This world is floating like ship In dry forest your cool air blows Rain and crop as per your chest desire Did you ask who I am to you In your hills small stream Did you ask what is goal of my life In your forests song bird Standing by side of road counting stars Kept treasure inside chest Pulling rain bow went rising on shoulder To gandharva world like relative In sky body sun moon earth Will become non existing one day as heard Though fourteen worlds vanish, mother Becomes light to me, your love ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 2) Village godess: To hit of axe shaking gada gada Wht is sufering brother It is not tree it is not root Village godess know brother Fulfiling desire of believed people Gave complete life To fearful hands of forest thieves Pities giving necks Rock exploding in hills and hills who cried khanduga broyher rama’s servent valient hanuma’s broke the chest see brother flowing rivers neem trees hills themselves as god or guru our elders understood and lived this people does not know todays robing forest selling forest jackals(foxes) are coming to stop this play of wicked human community rise ups ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 3)ten incarnations(dashaavatharas): In volume of dasha avathara Letter garland of hundred incarnations in this land of baked body bead garland of laughing sea puting ten avatharas(incarnations) minister nation selling broker(comision agent) lord of stunt(drama) of social service ambasider of poison sales laugh becominf smoke,smoke becoming cloud tiger becoming cat,fox becoming peacock kind of ten incarnatios see brother in business of ten incarnations in this herd of sheeps(kids) where is that face of kindness in noise (roar) of duplicate shyamas in roar of rats and rodents in tone of real lord(owner) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 4)When people were upset you flied like bird In deep blue sky of india(bharatha) Filled life spirit like mother In feel of tired peoples mind No fans (chathra)and umbrellas(chaamaras)- -no bahu paraks Like king in indoan street You walked and came,seing pained people embraced like father roaring as black in africa rail(train) pushing to earth who put keke(joy) tread animal strength ,threw away from country made to set(drown) white sun to melt poisonous snow of caste and creeds wandered whole country in hot sun(light) even to grass blade also there are prana(life) and honour you anounced this to whole world you are blessed gandhi,you are god gandhi why did we become saitans today why did we forgot talks of innermind why we gave bharatha(india) sacrifice(for killing) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 5) eye watch of black godess: Let ganga of love be flowing In valley of innermind(inner stage) Let jasmine of friendship emit fragrance In flower garden of chest depth Let lamp insects show path In this forest of deep dark Let pegions fly with excitement In sky shrunk in fear Tjere is flame poison piercing sword(knife) Why this fear now When there is full moon day of dream poetries Why talk of further sorrow In eye watch of black godess Let spirit blosom in life. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 6)dream(dreaming): Measuring distance between earth and sky Expecting bunch of stars to get down In forest sleep river wabling To see always In un aquainted vallies love flood spilling To melt rocks of fear My poetry dreams carrying stones in mid day To become coil(simbe) to middle head(netthi) Unrecognised childern grumbling To remind delivered (begeted) Hands sqeezing neck at mid(odd) night Get afraid and come down My poetry desires In front of stone building spilling hand siting Sigh to get bycoted Caught in hits and beats who have become underground lett it give answer in one jump in fire furnace of letters let anger be burning dhaga dhaga my poetry wishes. Gentleman murderers Lawful roberers Honourable bribe takers Liking them when all bow their heads My poetry pities To intoxication of honour For false advertisements posing as true To sound of money bags When all join their tones My poetry becomes silent ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 7) song of five rivers: Why channel of tears is flowing In land where five rivers flow In house and mind all dense smoke ,sigh Shouting dancing death not ending Madness of caste and creeds becoming black serpents Are pecking eyes of kids Where wheatt is to be grown rifles becoming crop Chest of innocents became pieces pieces Birds stars instead of sky(cloud) line In neck pressing hand and mouth No sound of flower fruit bees leg chains Body spliting fire in earth In field ,in forest, on burning rock Poisomous air is blowing In waters of river ponds streama ponda,in sea waters Is joining blood of brothers Even close friends also not able to be recognised Dark is throwing net dancing Feel osBrotherhood , equality enlighting love and affection What happened to coling golden light ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ebd,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 8)birds) rising hill ,getting down hill We are boys Depth deep depth(paathaala) fearful pain We have seen Watching sheeps ,grazing cattles Went without drinking milk Without getting luck of reading and writing Grew with plants Washing salive(enjalu) removing cattle urine Who laboured withou seing paste(ganji) Becoming colours of temples and towers Collapsed without tolerating Burning leaves in burning sun light We are particles of ashes Flowers drying up before spliting(blosoming) only Shrinking coloured dreams Not knowing time directionless Travellers of split path song of pain land of darkness Light searching birds. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 10) sound: Dancing whirl air,fence crossed snale Sound of wanderin cock heard From above big rock baadabakka flower falling getting tired only heard wall of mid hall sleeping in cradle no sound of dolu vaalaga drum to progeny of crow kokila bird crane no sound at all without water and shadow in line of shop no hint of people(dense) no concesion also as usual all is sold what next worry grown in eyes of broker body filling stoping godesses hided talk around temple palm(katthale?) has grown words becoming dull in front of people ocean silence only has stood stagnant upset night chasing crossing border playing chest which sound came is it wishper of murderers this sound is it death of innermind heard.s ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 11)victory celebration: In owner’s(lord’s) victory celebration What work to people like us Let us do appreciation of elephants Which tread tender kids Keeping fire to village and village thiking that- -we have become light to world Priding people we shall congradulate Who have given donation (datthi) we shall- - praize by rising tone Mahisha killed by chamundi Taking birth in our town as kadira As maramma’s husband paidead pelalty Taking birth as kadira,keeping it as secret Is his crime Because theses godeses Are high walls standing between caste and caste Weapons hided in banni Question asking boy farmer asking rate on labourer asking wages let not attack like sound of oven burning in hut let life be true like poetry line writen on compound wall be simple. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 12)purushaartha: Elders siting on house roof are those who got baked and tired in flame of love filled up chest,red lip,full eye light finding meaning of life twinkled where ever there growing jasmine creeper troubled seen lotuses lip coming near love becoming height making cloud to shy,who made water to flow dance of day and night sound of flowing rivers there was beauty in neighing of horses in small hut getting body sold was depth in pain of female in front of god made body thirst to dry what happened to childern of devadaasies opposing(bicoting) god, believeing humanity became thorn to chest of haves(rich) in naked empire(state) as king and queens did gandharva business to delicate sleeping in hot embrace no memory of caste and creed not even a little ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 13) people who became dull: Blosoming in soil.twinkling in sky People coming as light Hundreds of chariots running day Why didyu stand dull Full of this land making to flow laugh flood bringing crop pallakki(……..?) people earth flaming burning, dry land pouring why did water dry up. He is my brother be is my brother Whole world relaitive desire of this inner mind Can’t get body Broken dream again rising head Will it not shine as green Removibg dark entering mind Will not new world be seen Joy to pained to hungry food To tired head roof Washing face of fallen people Let hubdred come lifting hand ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 13) fire setters:wh While earth was burning brought ganga Who gave shoulder when building collapsed Those who brought one fallen to pond Fire setters uor brothers. Though day id burning though mid night As soon as called leaving wife and childern Come running Eating cold meals rushing to forest of smoke Those who fightonce in many days seing gut’s buds Spilling laugh fire setters our beothers. Feaver of caste enemity is rising brother Fire of communal enemity is burning brother To put off this fire love ganga(water) is needed Today all should becomes fire seters. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 15) ugadi-1: Delivery pain of land melting inch by inch Dance of green bud flower laugh vision Had brought twins relation of sky king To trees and plants group gift festival songcolour to flower bunch,to little bird to hill bold of rising and standing chest to river water lukewarm to air shadow cool brought ugadi what did you bring to collapsing worrying life lives drying up without blosoming like star non lahghing lives bodies which can’t stand with straightened chest while pecking eye whose ugadi is this? Sorrow of street dweller dark of hut For daily food selling body Hand stretched in desire of bribe taker Will it not vanish even epochs epochs are spent ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 16) yugadi-2: O yugadi as usual Though bringing joy Brought pain with mango Whatever others say Pains rising to sky Have flied(done flight) for life crowd has done fight became festival to those who ‘have’(rich) became potry to poet group(family) what happened to ‘have nots’ tell yugadi bringing heaven to earth enjoying people green wearing plants,yellow wearing trees answer to this removing all wickeds of life let new yugadi become pain of everybody’s chest vanishing let new life come ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 17) yugadi-3: New life of new feel Let new yugadi open In moon light of love Let earth forget body Deep dark of wickedness vanishing Let bird song sound in eye light of kid let new yugadi come laugh flood of epochs epochs let flow without drying weight of noga(…….?) of world shoulder become light by reducing fire fallen to tree putng off again garden bud out in hearts which have become distant let friendship feel grow ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 18)yugadi -4: Day before on the day of release of mondela Coming this yugadi Jail dwellers of caste and creed Will release and bring Towards field of love and humanity Kiling seen found people by shooting For the day of enquiry of human lions Like old man waiting siting Yugadi is prophet of hopess Yugadi of this time Like dream of middle aged man Like soft words of bribe taker like rising rate,downing dignity(prestige) let not be worry pproducing(chinthajanaka) in midst of green of people crowd let flowers of relations blosoming joy of equality let season vasantha(spring) anounce from epochs epochs burning burning in forest of people mind found in eye of little kid let dream remain upto end ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 18) karl marx: All truths of world which were concealed To know steps on thorns Awakening human race in dwowsiness(covered) To labours you stood as eye Like a directionless bird in forests You found darks of difficulties After entering knowledge forest came out Silver star who made to shine earth Under mill(?) machine whose hand was crushed Poow woman who is selling body Whose roof is collapsed,upset by hunger Among these only you found yourself Instead of patching torn cloth Found dream of bringing new cloth To blosom flower of laugh in pained chest Building fighta dreamed Tied arrest rings(kola) cuting throwing releasing Your dreams are blosoming In peoples procesion to ask for justice Come making to walk forward your memory ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 19)benjamin molayis: golden ore of earth’s depth Was knowing only fruits of garden white king today sleepless growing around his palace new crop of bycot(dhikkaara) not able to eat fasting person who was knowing his caste dog(jaathi dog ?) only as very close white king is alone in front of procesion of crores of people revolution lamp which was twinkling dull in dark of africa sudenly enlighted all ten directions. Magician mondela had become oil Benjamin molayis was wicks Knot of death had embraced neck of benjamin Death had come to empire of whites To hits of boot leg,to bite of mad dog To blind rule of colour rifles Who gave answer of blood Not afraid of hanging pillar Benjamin molayis Your sacrifice is not a waste Under big rock green buding Gets form of grass meadow River of delivered guts(intestine) Cuts and throws away colour differentiation Black heart’s silver light Removes dark of white chest ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 20)ramachandrasharma - 70: Though born in bhogadi,no desire of bhoga(enjoyment) No pride of yogi Sharn’s is whole(partless) life love To those students who have found his naughtyness jealousy Wonder to girls To talk and talk putting keke laughing sharma In him there are two drops of tears to those who have fallen Let always be critics discussing Position of sharma in kannada literature Sharma is bee attached to lotus of kannada poetry Nobody’s difference of openion about this To sharma who does not believe god Blind belief of believing people easily On this one session seventy to sharma Enthusism and naughtyness of his innernind let come to all ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 21)Shudra: On cuting hairs appearing as buddha Shudra many times Bulganin beard wearer Shudra is not naughty Shudra’s is not of body of dejection(vyragya) To talk with girls At the time when latent lovers were fearing Shudra rushed forward and taught Marxisn to lasses(youths) Mother’s mind shudra is siting Under banyan tree(bodhivruksha) In many worries ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 22) desire: Love of bharatha mother filling flowing In form of ganga and kaveri Seing national flag singing national anthem Get excited all tender childern Pain of attacks in difficulty of bondage Tired childern of this mother Forgeting body in differentiation of caste creed language As though not recognised shall they live In storm of sun light upseting heat Have mooved together daily Who poured poison which magic’s result Have we to fall in hatred and flames Awakened crores of peoples lift their tone and sing Dark of splits have been spent In garden of people’s mind flower of unity blosoming Once again life charm appeared ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 23) these gods: To noise of drum jumping sky high dancing hopping putting keke still not yet come sister kariyamma sheds tears valient anjaneya to save god from air rain chills preventing devotees trying to build temple to all peoples of town till house is got to me temple is not needed this kancharaya seing collapsed child’s putting off eye light carry tender kid to hospital who brought again lost child’s life yellamma mother from where she is if problems of devotees are not solved burning pungent small of chilli how to bear though on horse feared and upset cow dung(sagani) is of which origin not knowing sanskrit not residing in heaven black godesses are bear footed rich of wonder, our elder’s dream living together with us as body ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 24)love and foretelling(prediction): To chariot of town and town throwing fruit and scented leaf(davana) Gave life to all festivals Holding full moon day making love medal Brought light to depths of dark Came for asking bride desire of groom pating Ship dashed to rock stone Spilling tears blamed castes Like directionless birds sounding(praying) One to whom problens come severe relation of astruloger Wandered amd found young man astrologer With loved female go miles(yojana) of distance Don’t stay in this town even for half moment They went like storm fast Diging directions like released arrow Crossing seven hills cuting clouds Twinkling bunch of stars This side telling late in coin noise Astrologer came to house with speed ‘forget one who desired for love and went’ Found letter of lovely daughter ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 26)writen for drama ‘surya shikaari’(sun hunt): Who gave word to word: Who gave word to word Spoiled intellect One went to anounce truth Pushed to house of falseness(myth.mythya) Une who told earth rotates Made him to rotate around them One who told earth is global Made his intellect blunt One who told god is not there Made him god One whold no ten incarnations false Rised to eleventh To one who stood oppsite to owner(lord) Gave leg of elephant Who rised rebel Tied to leg of chariot ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 27)song of chill: Cill came On earth chill came Covering wolllen blamket(kambali) of snow Like thief without speech Had passed through door hole Had held who who were found Snow cap to all trees Silver cloth to hill line Where ever found festival of dew drop Who came who went Is not at all known Was making to shake gada gada Teeth played thabala(drom) Hands and legs danced Did not spare poor Did not leave riches Did never leave fashion girl Chill came On earth chill came Made to sit those who had slept Those who had sit made to stand Those who had stood made them to run Chill came The valient who wins chills Has no money to drink coffee No money to drink coffee Fearing to chill male and female Trying to eat fruit on love Delivered childern In house and house full town danced and stood by trouble of tough(gayyali) wife by joy of having escaped in early morning one clerk was about to go to duty after crossing front door high hit on nose chill has held by planing chill had caught ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,end,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,