Selective
translation of poetries of dr.siddhalingaiah,famous poet,from poetry
collection ‘kudiva neeliya
kadau’(‘boiling blue ocean’)lupublished
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 .poetry collection
‘kudiva neeliya kadalu :
(boiling
blue ocean)’(in 2016):
1)
To
u.r. ananthamurthy:
New bright
to kannada mother
New beauty
to kannada language
Dreams to
kannada people
Daily
brought intellect
Fixing
vision without closing eye lid
Saw rain bow
Joined with
star and moon
Grew in lap
of forest
Without
forgeting friendship in london
Composed
samskara
to caste
baloon of ego
you pricked
needle
to you who
wanted argument
ramamanohara
is very much like
liked
attached
interest of
gopalagowda
keeping love
in god’s peeta
distributed
amrutha(elixer)
listening
thinking every moment
made life
celebration
touching
cheek pating back
tested
wheather hard or hollow(true or false)
turning base upside down
emited false smile of naughtyness
enquiry
named dice(daala) play
played with
challenge
to
understand secret of god and religion(ethics)
strugled in
innermind
some waited
for leaving country
without knowing body leaving
you who sow
enquiry mentality
walked
without hint of death
in life path
as alone
making to appear
steps marks
before
awakening of people
climbed
sun’s horse
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2)Memory of
ki.ram:
2)coconut
leaf fell,banyan tree fell
Big rock
fell on jasmine
Sun moon
seting(drowning) dark filling eye
Sky fell on
chests
Fire was
chasing back kalinga had called
Found
kaalajnani inside it
from
kitthane as though ten elephants coming
came
measuring earth and sky
left red
jadeof secrets deep secrets
making earth
lemon making to play
dancing
putting keke beating drum(dolu)
became drama
stage cloud line
what a
wonder red colour everywhere
dance of
lakhs of stars
mante ayyas
making dance
relation of tigers leopards servent
making
to rise fallen man cmeared bhandara
rotatimg burning khandaaya (sword?)
light filled
world they themselves only(it was known)
gods and
demons around them
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3)basavanna:
Playing
string of those who have forgoten thought
Those who
have lost identity calling tthem guru
Removed
darkness of caste
Grew crop of
love and light
Rising up
making to shine those who were insulted
Wiping tears
of those mothers tired and dried up
Told only
one caste and water
Brought
flowers of dream
Those who
were spending days like dog fox and
sheep
Became tiger
lion leopard
Those who
had become stone by paining in grass hut
Cry and
thunder became thunderbolt
Attracting
orphans you embraced
Made to wear
crown to dusty head
Becoming
sword of those who fight
You gave
call to life of equality
did your
dreams become true
devotion of
poor did not become power
why garden
of dreams became dry forest
why time had
set(drowned) in mid day
still
basavanna
as song of
relief of palace birds
became blood
of bood of friends and relatives
in that moment of walking to hanging pillar
became
breath of breath of those people
who shouted
‘inquilab jindabad’
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4)Again
ambedkar:
Castism,regionalism,down
treading,wickedness’s
From deep
dark ‘s intoxication let people awoke
Bhimarao
ambedkar desired nonsubordination
To new world
of equality let this journey moov
Flower
flower new star good love’s waterfall
In divine
garden of people’s mind let appear(getting body)
Forgoten
inner live’s humanity golden light
Smearing
body of earth and sky let push away ignorence
In war of
liberation you became amara(deathless)
Bhimarao
ambedkar beyond directions
Fought for
rights of sisters and mothers
You wiped
out difference land lord and labourer
Writing
constitution opening equal society
Appeared in
chests of downtrodens and sinfuls
By joining
you became siddha purusha(supreme man)
Life
kindness pity’s golden ray you spilled
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5) yugadi-5:
Making to
wear to plants and trees
Spreading
green blanket to land
Tying
garland of clouds above
Floating
coming yugadis
Song to bird
group
Divine
silence to hill line
Meditation
of sea to flowing river
Brought and
given yugadi
When will it
bring cool
To burning
gujarath
New leaf garland(thorana) of mango
Cleanliness
to house and house
Neem jaggery sweet(obbattu)
Carrying
bringing yugadi
People’s
mind becoming one
Crossing
beyond caste and community
In path of
equality
When to keep
step
Golden light
of cooperation(coordination)
When will it
appear
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6)moon
light:
In night of
moon light in god’s forest
Burning fire
fell and there was smoke
In peaceful
moon light in holy ganga
Poisonous organism had filled
In moon
light nightin streets of bagdad
Had flowd blood floods
In white
moon light in lane of bengaluru
Scream of
little kid was heard
In moon
light night in bank of golden sea
For not
returned fisher man
Wife and
childern were waiting
At mid night
toone who was going alone
Moon light
became friend
To buddha
guru much truth flashed in
Guru
marulasiddha telling tharalabaalu
In moon
light moon light becomes thathva(principle)
Above
thajmahal
above pair
huts
falling
on banks of ocean
moon light
becomes poetry
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8)ki.ram.nagaraja:
Never
worried about difficulties ki.ram.
Well wisher
of society
This zen
master is suphi also
Above all
kannada saint(santha)
If
ki.ram.does not go,bengaluru’s book stals
Will
becoming boring
If
ki.ram.tone is not heard
Foot path of
gandhi bajar becomes tasteless
Those
students who know about leave of ki.ram.
Will remain
in canteen only
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8)d.r.memory:
Did valient
soldier collapsed and fell sudenly
Like rushing
coming single male elaphant(salaga) mooving back
Like sound
done by earth,as though direction of river is missed
As though
burning one lamp has fallen
Gold of body
of earth diged removed without leaving
Shined in
style failing to love
Found depth
of sea burnt as fire
Crossed sky
and went above above
Preventing storms(tempests) made stagnant
Attracting
embraced found rain bow
Where all
saints join.in stage of sky
For creation
of new world did sacrifice(yaaga)
Cheat of
five elements(pancha bhutuhas without
tolerating
-exploding
standing
Investing arrow of
intellect and feel made war
Walked like child like mother child giing
In pagade
of day and hight in festival of sea waves
Became dice and lamp as soon as seen
Where did
life friend went from where he came
From where
did he
brought kamadhenu kalpavruksa
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9)huli
mavu(sour mango):
Where ever
found is rushing intoxicated elephant
Withou fear
of ankusha(sharp weapon) of mavuth
In royal
streets
Is hising
wandering
Poisonous
snake which was inside so far
In sky of
kannada building rain bow
No bold who brought excitement to earth
Style to
forest flower
Shining to
black colour
No soldier
who brought win to people
Chest of
clevers
Divine
garden is dry forest
Huli had
leaned as ashes
Fox group
sounding from upstairs
Had waited
for pinda as crow
Khaaki
,khaddar,safron are putting keke
Congradulations
to jiganes(ticks?) everywhere
Hesitation
of bribe taking man is not now
No
hesitation to lier small hesitation
Dancing
hoping like brahma demon
Climbing on
chariot is now memory
Poet is
flower on fence
He is bound
always to his
Innermind(antharanga)
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10)Village godesses:
When will
be seven villages festival
Were
waiting village godesses
Not geting ganga worship without anouncement
Became dukk
without baths excetra
To dance of
stage desiring tiring
Withot
moovments of hands and leg joined corner
Gods who
gave food to fourteen worlds
Without
edemade(food and cloth?) got upset
To magic of
song priding godesses
Wearing
mouth lock became silent
Leaving
desire ornament saree crown
Weared neem
dress and stood
Without
nademudi pallakki(mooving cradle) –
-and mangala
vaadyas
Rolled
godesses miles and miles
In heat of
burning sun light on fire furnace
Started
procesion line by line
Being caught
in shula(sharp weapon)loan of kubera
Did
labour(slavery)
Interest
can’t be repaid in seven births also
Held path of
suicide
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12)
arkavathi:
In upstairs
house in kitchen
Baked
by burn of dowry
In
front of female’s tears river
I am
standing ,like unattached
Have sit ib
front of pit of blood
Flowing
from collapsed poor man’s chest
Like coward
Hill line
of slicedskeletons
Of
fighteranger smoke arising from hill line
non mooving
standing directionless cloud
spilled
blood on trees and plants
sorrow or
song this goravanka’s tone
escaped cry
of lamb
silence
wearing tamerind tree
in
branch bird siting in worries
never
melting heart of authority this rock
like lost
love,rolling hope
sun is setimg
dark of
communal hatred
is covering
sky
will wait,
keeping desire in little nest
safely
cautiously
till again
morning arises
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13)
sandy(market):
All god
menwill be sold
In weatern
seventown’s(yeluru) sandy
One bundle
of wood (sticks) have been enough
Today this
is market of selves
Love
and kindness ethics affections
Kept to
sales many people
emit false
smile make kanf guesture
purchasers of
five elements(panchabhuthas
in shop line
of values and ideals
is
justice wanted big shout
in festival
where caste metal drum(jagate) is sounded
a stunt
of national devotion(patriatism)
no names and
identities no face to anybody
all are one
one money bag
remiting
money may laugh or cry
no dream in
empty hands
from palace
of subordination pegion flying
thumbe
flower blosoming let lemon yield fruit
appearing
rain bow people dancing rising
let
festival happen in sky
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End of
poetry collection’kudiva neeliya
kadalu’’(boiling blue ocean)
On
19.12.2020.
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