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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 hhad caught
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