Friday, April 8, 2022

Poems of life -22 sonnets

1. Poem

Things that are in life's rush concealed

or feelings in dullness of language buried 

are first by a poet clearly perceived

later by the reader's heart received

In poem's rare words they are poised

later in sweet rhythms they are voiced

Readers minds are by poems enlightened

Their hearts are by their motifs lightened 

In poem's light minds from darkness depart

poet's  thoughts fragrance to life impart 

( only a poet can explain the greatness of a poem)


2.Death 

When loneliness is life’s eternal complexity 

That leads to emptiness and perplexity

When future seems so dim and dreary

When the man in mirror makes self mockery

Death is a nose to soul 

to lose pain as a whole

Those who consider world a hell hole

Tend to look at death as a goal

if the world is so hellish

when man can't the world relish

When grief rules everyday life

When the life is filled with strife

Death is the exit to sufferance

A bold man's preference


3. The End  

The man who dies everyday 

with the fear of death, obeys

life and tells he's his part to play

If troubles with him play

If  life becomes so cold

The man gets  bold 

and goes for the gold

At new life's entrance 

comes chance of avoidance

when the deadly fear is stirred 

and the soul is deterred 

nothing on the earth 

is really worth. 


4.Desire

Don't say desire is base 

It is love's sweetest face

blame not the desire 

It's the fire you can't hire


without desire life is a brier 

It is the love's burning fire

that lasts until you're on bire 

Don’t ever think it is a mire


It plays your heart like a lyre

Making each nerve a burning wire

It dwells in youth's dreams

swells in love's streams


At the dusk of life it is low

without it life ends in sorrow








5.Lust

Lust is biggest human quest

it's the endless cellular thirst

A mortal's immortal quest

It is the restless inner thrust 


it pushes two bodies closer

with the power of a bulldozer

Even the darkness gets wet

with lust's labour's sweat 


Lust is like the earth's crust

without that love gathers rust

Lust is always wrapped in love

and lies hidden like knife in glove


Where is the platonic loe in flesh

Go tell foundlings in the creche


6.Freedom

Absolute freedom is a mere illusion

when you are enslaved by daily needs

survival demands disgraceful deeds

when you can't check other's intrusion

Freedom comes from relaxation 

But when you are ruled by greed

you must everybody heed

You can never check exploitation

You don't need lakhs and lakhs 

to sit at ease and relax

the exploitation will never end

All you need is courage to defend

Freedom is purely the soul's need 

It doesn't depend on material feed


   7. The Castle 

The bird of freedom 

can't fly with fractured wings

All it needs is wisdom

First remove the mental slings

Tears and prayers

Can not freedom offer

cut through fears and despairs

like an experienced chauffeur

Fears and cares are the locks

they often your mind blocks

See the world from your eyes

Or you must pay the price

O! Freedom where can I find

It is a castle built in your mind

              

              8. Heaven

 Where is the Heaven of eternal mirth

 What avail is the heaven after death?

The twinkling stars in the sky's closet

fade at the sight of  your bedecked bonnet

The soft vernal wind that oft blossoms kiss 

My lady's warm bossom brings longer bliss 

Let Heavens piss I don't her bossom miss

What avail is the heaven's berth?

when the heaven is not on the earth

Who knows Heaven after death?

My ladies curves my nerves serves

who care if the heaven pearls hurls!

Who's the fool to miss the seamless joys

on earth and make a shameless choice


          9.Conscience

At the dead of night when crickets cease

Why singest thou in my tired ears

plaintive tunes that arouse funeral fears  

stop the maddening the sound of geese


 Yesterday you played western tunes

 disturbing the resting souls in graves

 Here's a poor poet who for peace craves

 who to the world gave his precious boons

 He walked bare foot so long on thorns

Tonight he is cheerfully drest again

Enough of you dark dragon with horns 

why singest thou another song of pain

Stop dancing in long black tunic 

 Don't make him sick with gristly music 


10. Hopes  ( sonnet)

When I was young and tender 

I traveled on swelling slopes

sporting  tinted wings of hopes

and wander'd on clouds drifting asunder


Rainbow was my hiding place 

The redness of the evening sky 

My lover's cheeks blushed in shy

I enjoyed all my youthful days


All the youth that I cherished 

with transitory time  perished

I am left in green meadows

haunted by  hopes' shadows


I hear murdered hopes' weird rhyme 

How cruel is the testing time   14 


11.  Prime  - (AA BB rhyme)

Oh!  lovely newborn rose

your tender petals froze

in winter snow, who knows 

How  the snow bite goes 4


Silently you bore the brunt

Of your sickly conjugal stunt

for long you clung to the cactus bush

And lived like a lifeless mush  8


You have seen many a season 

Now came your love season

But the cactus called it treason

that caused your heart a lesion 12


Love is a blithesome spring

no matter how old or young 14


12. Flower life


Oh look at the lovely spring 

All flowers in meadows sing 

and swing with graceful zing 

the angels of god that bring


His grace, and outshines the king

their beauty and colour the queens sting

their beauty shines supreme

on verdant lawns by the stream


Flowers  enjoy their prime

merrily singing nature's rhyme

Short is the life but so divine

Those who wear their virtues shine


His golden dew falls on your golden hue

That's makes you youthful primrose new 14

    


13. Delicate mirth  - Sonnet

How many bonds thou art set around my heart

No lady in my life is as cherished as though art

How many hopes thy words have brought

They shake my heart  in loneliness apart


Thou art angel to whom my hopes belong

Thine image rich n splendid my life prolong

To make thou art my bride is my pride

For which though dost cried like a child


Thy moon light promises in my mind linger

Oh!  the moonlight increases my hunger

Thou art the form of ever delicate mirth  

Thy company literally makes my life worth  


I see thy smiles in this moonlit lake

I travelled miles and miles for your sake 14



14. If it deserves ( Heroic Sonnet)


I loved. Yes, It's you I loved 

I am sorry  I can’t say it aloud

you too loved me. I am proud

but sorry people are so crude


Their mouths are hunter’s bows

Their words are poisonous arrows

Don't ever go near their shadows

They bring all sorts of sorrows


When two people love, all are judges

they come up with all sorts of hedges

holding in mind persistent grudges

Their mind from tradition never budges


Once I the people questioned

they shot at me arrows thousand 

They shot arrows and arrows  

until they brought us sorrows


God in heavens reserves 

your bride if your love deserves. 18



15. Hitler's Heaven ( blank verse)

Hitler told Himmler 

Jews must not die simply 

they must die in agony. 

Load them in freight cars

Coat the floors with quicklime

which gives excruciating burns. 

said Himmler to Hitler. 

Freight cars came onto tracks 


They called freight cars final solution

but disguised it as mass deportation 

to the east. Deportation means death.

A top secret known to Hitler and a few.

The rest think that it is resettlement


The windowless cattle wagons 

the freight cars are frightening cars

were awaiting  the innocent jews

who knew not it was their last journey


Mass shootings , sending to ghettos

Forcing to concentration camps

All are synonymous to slow death 

The fastest being slowest freight train


No windows, they  move  slowly 

No food and no water literally 

Suffocation and body burns kill

It is a slow journey into hell 

when the train arrived at the camp

everyone was  already dead. 


16.  Eternal Hatred - (Heroic Sonnet)

No one knows why he hated jews 

No one knows the origin of his views

Historians too seldom have clues

But like venom he hated the jews

As an artist in his early life was a ditcher

He had drawn many a beautiful picture 

But turned himself into a gristly butcher

his Humanism was on stretcher 

He was committed to antisemitism

That turned out to be bloody vampirism 

With his oratory skills he spread it like fire

He was as crooked as general Dyer 12

 

When he was soldier Germany lost the war

It’s believed one lac Jews were false in war


They fought for their father land – Poland

He later got into politics in Deutschland  16


In the Second World War he realized his dream

of exterminating Jews with his holocaust scheme  18


17. Whore ( Heroic sonnet)

The public called me public woman

they publicly blame and defame

but privately covet my body for a game

They are secretly envious of my fame

I am the mother so helpless and dumb  

could not save the girl child in womb

I am the failed mother who killed son

without giving him timely medicine 


I am the woman who never weeps for the stars

I might have slept with a man who deals in stars

for my husband who wants a chance in films

not enough love and sleep, I quench master's whims 12


They call me with names whore bore and more

They love sex, demand woman do it as chore

In the game of man I am simply a pan

 I don't need a beautiful villa and a sedan  16


 All I need is a life without strife

I just  want to be a housewife.  18


18. Enlightened  (Heroic sonnet)

Hindu Christians Christian Hindus

and Indian Muslims are Friendly enemies

Each sect has its own constitution

that leads to eternal constipation


They live closely apart

They are partly together

wholly exist in their holes

and try to prove others fools


Each want others to be enlightened

They can't their own mind understand

Alas! mother tongue and mother land

don't appeal to them but they appeal


 to each other to love and learn

what they neither learned nor loved.

They can't themselves at least change

but  hope the entire world to change.


They all need a code uniform 

That can be the biggest reform  18


19. The Tigress and the rain drop  ( blank verse)

At the break of the day the hunter party 

began with drums and snares to catch

birds , boars  rabbits and weasels

They usually travel in labyrinthine paths

In the equatorial evergreen forest 

They move like ants in narrow paths

playing  the mystic rhythm of drums


The hunter party reached the riverside

The most crafty of all  laid the jaw trap 

with a hunk of bleeding flesh with strap


A naive tigress  the jungle resident

Unsuspecting of dangerous precedent

stepped  on the jaw trap and caught 


The tigress grasped her folly

The hunter caught her jolly

The party netted the tigress


It was neither a boar nor a rabbit

Catching a tigress is not their habit

The tigress was bleeding in the trap


But she has not lost all her hope

The played violent. the drums blared

The tigress is confused and stared


They poked her with sharp spikes 

Chocked her in net until sun set 

The clouds moved over head

The first rain drop fell on her head

The tigress  at once her fears shed


She growled with all her strength

And struggled her way out, at length

The hunters have lost their strength

The tigress escaped into the green forest   

But she still has the trap in the leg


Prodigious injuries austere tragedies 

villainous captivity and nasty calamity

Is all over. The hunter party has gone!!!


The tigress has the clear hope

One day she can throw the trap

She fondly remembers the rain drop


20.  Fairies hunt   ( slant rhyme )

Since long my senses insist

to find if fairies really exist

I set out on the witch hunt 

On dark and frightening night

The serpentine belt squealed

The lusterless olive jeep moved

The tyres are young and strong 

The yellow lights cut through fog

I have neither permission nor privilege

Perhaps searching for fairy is sacrilege 

I passed the brook, drove towards east 

The jeep was cutting through thick mist

There is neither house nor farmland 

 I reached wilderness, it is a waste land

The  veil of woods afar seems grand

In the headlights appears like a fairyland 

 I drove straight in the freakish weather

Of the frightening night I saw the crooked 

Wooden house with a rocky fountain in front

In fraction of second a creepy feeling crossed 

my mind that many a time I avoided the castle

I dreaded to enter when I visited last winter

Something eerie glows in the dreary castle

A mellifluous soprano voice! is it a throstle!

Is it my beloved friend Farrago Francesca ?

Pity!  I couldn’t my lips open and ask her!

Why Fernando do you deserve a fairy?

 My questioning conscience looked scary 

I kicked open the creaking wooden doors 

I wandered fearlessly in the empty rooms

Sweet Francesca my heart your hand woos

I have n't found fairies but vanquished fears

If you ask me to wait for you I say cheers

I have the eternal hope I can wait for years


21. Her memories  ( AA BB rhyme)

I was walking  the vista

remembering the fiesta 

amid the charming blue hills

watching the nature's thrills

I was climbing uphill 

Down there I see a windmill 

The foot paths are winding

The trees are spellbinding


Slowly the sun lowered 

The heavens rumbled 

The clouds gently poured

The rain I always adored


Up in the sky the clouds brewed

Her sweet  memories rained 

Her memories are sweet first time 

They are sweeter every time

Her touch still feels and fills thrills


22. Eternal  (slant rhyme)

I close my eyes and wonder

What if my eyes close for ever

And  never see the dawn

What if I am forever gone

My bones turn into dust

That flies in the air falls in the river

On the peepal tree under people’s feet

Where is my presence what is the essence

Of my verses do you give me curses

Who am I ? a crumpled picture of shattered dreams?

How long can I stick to your fading memory?

How long can you my verses admire

when your dreams drown in quagmire

 you and I strolled in the cool amber

full moon night in yellow splendor

There the wind my songs chant

 the stars your memories haunt

I am monumental, verbal and eternal

In the blowing air and flowing river

Far away from the loathsome world 



రామసింగం - Ramsingh

This is about my friend  who has always made me proud. He is far above the crowd. He is a designer of several  high-end machines, Industrialist and a Businessman. We are not only friends but also guru to each other. Apart from personal friendship we have family friendship. There is a third dimension to our friendship. That is his literary friendship. Most importantly his literary friendship played part in my visiting institutions where he was the honorary director. His quest for knowledge as well as dissemination of knowledge is incomparable. He made big efforts by spending in educating people around him. He traveled through China and  Africa on his business with great enthusiasm.  He displayed that same enthusiasmin bringing BHARATAVARSHA into Delhi.  My Telugu poetic work on him will disclose his qualities please read below. 

The friendship's flame - Ramsingh Bajwa

శ్రీమన్మంగళాకారంబు, రామసింగంబు, బృందార మదాంబరంబు, గంభీర రూపంబు,  స్నేహ శీలంబు, భక్తి భావంబు, చతుర భాషణంబు, యంత్రసృజనాకుంజరంబు, తంత్ర భేదంబు, వాణిజ్యవాతంబు, విద్యాభిలాషంబు, వినయసంపన్నంబు, సాహిత్య తిలకంబు,  జ్ఞాన వినయ సాంకర్య సముదంచితంబు, అకుంఠిత శ్రమకంబు,  సత్హృదయ భాసురంబు,  సముదాగమ రాగంబు, రమ్భత్వికాస హాసంబు, రమణీయ వదనంబు. హస్తినాపురవాస  పీయూషవర్ష, సత్కర్మ హర్ష, సత్కార్య  సమ్భార,  సంకర్షణ సంతుష్ట విద్వత్తమ ఉత్తమ, సత్తమ, సువిత్తు మిత్రమా, తెలుగు గ్రంధమున్ జూచి స్పందించి, ఆంధ్రులకు అందించి మధురానుభూతులన్ పంచి, అవ్యక్తానందంబు కల్గించి, మిత్రశీలంబు రామసింగంబు రాచసదనంబు, రాచందంబు  నీకు సొంతంబు రామసింగంబు నెరిపె రాచకార్యంబు,   పెక్కు శాస్త్రంబులం జదివి సిక్కు ధర్మంబులం గాచి,  ఖండ  ఖండాలు జుట్టి  బండాలమున్ బట్టి,   జగత్ప్రాణుఁబోలి  జగమంతయూ జుట్టి  బృహత్వ్యాపార ముంజేసి విద్యాకర విద్వత్ విసార విద్యావికాస విచార రామసింగ. 

రాజధానిలో గ్రంధరాజం

 మన ధర్మం ఏమిటో మన సాహిత్యం చెప్పలేకపోతే 

మన ధర్మానికి మన సాహిత్యానికి కూడా విలువవుండదు 

మన భాష లో ఉన్నత పదజాలం  మనకి తెలియకపోతే 

నీచమాయాజాలంలో చిక్కుకుంటే  మధురభావాలు మనకి

దక్కకుంటే మన భాషకి మన బ్రతుకుకీ కూడా విలువుండదు.

 భూపేయంబిది రాయలు మెచ్చిన తెలుగు రత్నాల వెలుగు 
రాజధానిలోని రమణుల కరముల వెలుగు.  


ఉన్నత మైన ఆలోచనలు ఉన్నవారే ఉన్నతులు

వెధవలెప్పుడూ  వెల గురించే ఆలోచిస్తారు కేవలం విలువలగురించి      

మాట్లాడి,  వెలకోసం వెంపర్లాడితే వెలయాళ్ల సమాజం మిగులుతుంది 

ఉన్నకాలు నరుక్కుని పెట్టుకున్న కొయ్యకాలు మెరుస్తున్నాదని 

మురిసిపోయే తల్లితండ్రులు, కార్లుంటే కాళ్ళెందుకనే ప్రభుత్వాలు 

తెలుగు ఎలా వెలుగుతుంది ?  పక్కింటివాడి దీపం ఉంది కదా అని

విషపు మాటలు విడిచిపెట్టి ఎదో ఒకలా తెలుగు మాట్లాడుతున్నానని 

సర్దుకుపోక స్వచ్ఛ మైన తెలుగు భాషని ఆస్వాదించి చూడు. 

 మన ధర్మం మన భాషతోనే మొదలౌతుంది , మన సంస్కృతి మన భాషలోనే బ్రతుకుతుంది. 

 "భారతవర్ష" గ్రంధం మన భాషా సంస్కృతి ధర్మాలగురించి మధురంగా  చెపుతుంది. 

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

భరత్ కుమార్ - నిత్య కథకుడికి నివాళి

అతడో ఎడతెగని కథా స్రవంతి. ఆశువుగా కథలు చెప్పే ఆశు కథావతార్. ప్రతి కథ సినిమా చూస్తున్నట్టుగా ఉంటుంది.అతడి కథలు ఎలాఉంటాయో ఒక్క చంపకమాల పద్యంలో కళ్ళకు కట్టినట్టు వివరించిన పూలబాల.
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      III       IUI        UII         IUI      IUI       IUI    UIU  

చ. నిమ  నిపించు  దయ్యమి  కనీడ  యినీవె  నకంట కాగన్   

   గగ  జలాడు  నుఓల  ముకాళ్లు  నునీకి  కఆంజ  నీసుతున్       

   న  యుజేయ తప్పది    కమాపు  కునిద్ర  యుపట్ట దింకజూ   

     ముట్టి  ఒళ్ళు   డార  ముకంప మునొందు తాపమున్    

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భరత్ కథవిని దయ్యాలు లేవని కొట్టిపారేసేవారు మొదట బాగానే ఉంటారు తరువాత దయ్యం వెంట తిరుగుతున్నట్టనుభూతి పొందుతారు అప్పుడు దయ్యం నిజమని పిస్తుంది. మెల్లగా కాళ్ళు వొళ్ళు వణకడం మొదలయ్యాక ఆంజనేయుడి భజన తప్పదని పిస్తుంది, తరువాత రాత్రికి నిద్ర పట్టదు, జ్వరం మాత్రం పట్టుకుంటుంది. ఒళ్ళు వడారము (పూర్తిగా) కంపిస్తుంది. ఈయన కథ వింటే ఈ రకమైన మార్పులు జరుగుతాయి అని చంపకమాల పద్య రూపంలో చెప్పడం జరిగింది.
విజయవాడలోని లూనార్ టెక్నాలజీస్ వ్యవస్థాపకుడు భరత్ కుమార్‌కు కథలు అంటే చాలా ఇష్టం. ఇలాంటి వారిని మనం చాలామందిని చూస్తాము. ఇది గొప్పగా అనిపించక పోవచ్చు కానీ భారత కుమార్ ఆసు కథా భాగవతార్. అదేనండీ ఆసుకథకుడు. అప్పటికప్పుడు కల్పించి హత్తుకునేలా కథ చెపుతాడు. ఇది గొప్పగా అనిపించక పోవచ్చు కానీ భరత్ కుమార్ ఇలా నిత్యం కథలు చెపుతుండే వాడు. దయ్యాలకథలు మాత్రమే చెప్పేవాడు. అవి చాలా భయానకంగా ఉండేవి .

విజయవాడ బెంజ్ సర్కిల్‌లో మేము ఒకే ఆఫీస్‌ లో ఉండేవాళ్ళం. భరత్ కుమార్ లూనార్ టెనాలజీస్ ఆఫిసులో నే కొంత భాగాన్ని నాకు అంటే ఈజీ ఫారిన్ లాంగ్వేజెస్ కు ఇచ్చాడు. అతను ఎప్పుడూ అద్దె కోరుకోలేదు కానీ అతని దాతృత్వంతో నేను ఆఫీసు నడపడలేక నేనే అద్దె ఇచ్చేవాడిని. భాషే మా మధ్య బంధం. ఆయనకు తెలుగు అంటే ఇష్టం. అతని ప్రేమ నిజమైంది. అతను భయానక కథల అంతులేని ప్రవాహం. అతడివి దయ్యాలకథలు నావి ఐతిహాసిక , సాంప్రదాయ కోవకు చెందిన ఉదారమైన అచ్చతెలుగు కథలు.
ఒక సారి సంగీత నృత్య రూపకం పూలబాల ఐతిహాసిక కథ చెప్పగానే క్షణాలలో దానిని ఆధునిక క్రైమ్ కథగా మార్చి చెప్పేసాడు. అందులో కూడా దయ్య ఉంటుంది . అతడి ప్రతీ కథలోనూ దయ్యం ఉంటుంది.
భారతవర్ష నవల మెమెంటో ఇద్దామని వాళ్ళ ఇంటికి వెళ్ళేను.భారతవర్ష నవలకి కొంత ఆర్ధికంగా సాయపడాలనే సద్బుద్ధితో నేను వద్దని ఎంత వారిస్తున్నా వినకుండా, డబ్బు ఫోన్ పే ద్వారా నా అకౌంట్ కి ట్రాన్స్ఫర్ చేసిన నిజమైన తెలుగు భాషాభిమాని మిత్ర శీలి భరత్ కుమార్.

                                                    


Bharat Kumar the founder of Lunar technologies in Vijayawada liked fiction so much that he used to tell me stories everyday because we shared the same office at Benz circle. He gave me a part of his office accepting a small amount as rent. He never wanted rent but I can not live on his generosity. We both never considered money as a bond. Lanugage is the bond between us. He loved Telugu and it was true. He had unending flow of horror stories that formed a bond between us. 

Before Corona had hit and the first lock down was imposed Mr Bharat and I used to sit under one roof, the roof of Lunar Technologies. He is the founder of Lunar technologies.  He accom modated Eazy Foreign Languages in his premises near Benz Circle. It appears to very close people  that he accommodated EFL in his building but I know the truth that he has accommodated EFL in his heart. We were together for years but  never a clash or question between us. There was not even a difference of opinion.  We loved and respected each other like brothers. After classes we sat together telling each other stories. We used to go on walk to the nearest coffee parlor near ABN Andhrajyothi office beside the Chaya Tennis Academy.

Bharatkumar lives in Gayatri Vihar Gated Community on the highway near Kankipadu. I live in Vanukuru. We are close to each other. Yesterday I went to his place and had a very pleasant evening with the story lover and story teller Mr. Bharat Kumar. 






 

 

Sunday, April 3, 2022

సంగీత కొలనులో చెంగల్వలు

పూతచంద్రము గదిలె పుణ్యములు గదిలె     

కోటిపడగలు నొదిలి  కొమ్మలు కదిలె     

తిరుకొళంబులో  తిమిత  పద్మములు  కదిలె    

తిరువెంకటాధీసు దీవెనలు  బడసె     

సంగీత కొలనందు చెంగలించు చెంగల్వలు


 శా. గానశ్రా  ణతనీ    కుఅక్ష  యముగా గారా   లగండ  శైలా        

   గాన్ధార స్వరమం  తకంఠ  మునఇం   గానీ  కచ్చపి స్వనం    

   బేనాలిం  చివిన  బ్రమంది  మనసే   విరాజి  ల్లిరాసి చ్చెయా     

   వీణాపా ణిసుతుం డుభూరి  కవితా  భివాద మ్ముగార మ్ముతో  

 

  గాన  శ్రాణత   = గాన పరిపక్వత ;  నీకు  అక్షయము  గాక ;    గారాల గండశైలా = ముచ్చటైన కోకిలమ్మా         

  గాన్ధార స్వరమంత  =  మధుర స్వరము;  కంఠమున ఇంగా = గొంతులో ఇంకగా;                                               

   నీ  కచ్చపి స్వనంబే  =  (సరస్వతి వీణపేరు కచ్ఛపి)  ఆ వీణా తంత్రుల నాదము (వంటి స్వరము) 

   నాలించివిని = శ్రద్దగా విని  అబ్ర మంది  = అబ్బుర మంది ;  మనసేవిరాజిల్లి   = మిక్కిలి ఆనందించి 

   రాసిచ్చెయా ;  వీణాపా ణిసుతుండు  = సరస్వతీ పుత్రుడు; భూరి కవితాభివాద మ్ము =  కవితా ప్రణామము  

   గార మ్ముతో  = గౌరవముతో 


శార్ధూల గణ  మత్తేభ యతి :  14  అక్షరము 

 గాశ్రా  తనీకు అక్షయము  గాదె గారాల  గండశైలా        

 గాన్ధార స్వరమంత  కంఠమున  నిండగా  నీ  కచ్చపి స్వనం    

 బే నాలించి వినంగ ముగ్దుడయి  నీ ప్రభే మెచ్చి నీకిచ్చ యా   

 వీణాపాణి  సుతుండు  భూరి కవితా  నివేద మ్ముతోమా లగన్  





Amid Everest Peaks - Ugadi 2022

Ghantasala Kala Peetham in Pamarru village has felicitated me on 2nd April 2022 along with many great personalities in local Ankamma temple. I must offer heart felt thanks to  Sri Muralikshna katuri and Sri Hemanth, the founder director of Hitam school.

I am heavily indebted to Sri Kishore who brought his daughters Padmasri and Krishnasri,  the noted singer sisters par excellence from his distant village to Pamarru by his car only to sing in the felicitation program. Nobody is small, all people who participated in the felicitation program are tall.    

Amid Everest Peaks

They are certainly great at heart 

They leave a mark before they part

Certainly they are great souls 

They have unselfish goals

They are senior citizens

They are village denizens

Their contribution is highly praise worthy

At the apex of humanity they are earthy

One makes his home an orphanage 

He is still serving at 84 years of age

One donates blood a hundred times

I must shower on him my rhymes 

A mother in the name her diseased son

has a charitable trust begun

A man who carries orphan dead bodies

undoubtedly he the god's spirit embodies

They took Bharatavarsha into their hands

the motif is immortalized by the songs.









మురారి చేతిలో ముచ్చటైన మురళి

బృందావనములో పలికినదీ  మురళీ 

తరతరాలుగా సుస్వరాలను పంచినదీ మురళీ 

ఏమా రవళి, ఏమా సరళి  పొంగెను లే పొరలి 

 

ద్వాపరమందున ధరణికి వరముగా 

ధర్మము కాచి  వెలిగిన దీ  మురళీ 

నరకాసుర చెరలో తరుణుల కాచి

ద్రౌపది,  భద్ర, సుభద్ర  ల గాచి 

తరతరాలుగా సుస్వరాలను పంచినదీ మురళీ 

ఏమా రవళి, ఏమా సరళి  పొంగెను లే పొరలి 


గోవర్దననెత్తి గోవులు గాచి

గోవుల గోపుల మనసుల దోచి 

గాలికి జీలు కి  గంధము పూసి

తరతరాలుగా సుస్వరాలను పంచినదీ మురళీ 

ఏమా రవళి, ఏమా సరళి  పొంగెను లే పొరలి 

 

 ఏదా మురళి   ఏదా రవళి,   ఏదా మురళి    ఏదా సరళి 

ద్వాపరమున పలికిన మురళి  


కలికాలంలో కళలను కావ వచ్చిన దీ  మురళీ

తరలీ తరలీ వచ్చినదీ దొరలీ 

తరలీ తరలీ వచ్చినదీ దొరలీ 

గోవుల నొదిలి గోపీకనొదిలి సర్రున పామఱొచ్చి  

మ్రోగినదీ  మురళీ   తన మధుర మధుర సరళీ 

ఆమరగాయకుల పేరున దలచి కవులను  చెంతకు  పిలిచి

శ్రమించి సత్కరించి వరించి తరించిన దీ మురళీ

Friday, April 1, 2022

Lakuma accident -9

 Kumar kept looking at Aruna's car in a daze. He guessed that she would commit suicide. He was terribly upset because he was helpless. He  Anybody who saw her facial feelings at that moment  can easily guess what is going to happen.  He looked at the TV journalists who interviewed her staring at her. They looked like cameras with legs. They see everything with their cameras.  Don't they see anything with their eyes? Perhaps they are on duty! Is it not their duty to save a human. Only if she has a friend among journalists with whom she poured out her heart!  He was amazed to see a a senior journalist running after her car. By then her car exited the gate.  Leaving his camera to his assistant he got into his car and followed her car. 

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Aruna's car entered PV Narasinharao marg. The traffic is now free because all the party people are still at the party. After the party meeting is over the traffic is expect to shoot up. The white Innova is going with the speed of wind. A red Maruti Alto was trailing far behind. The man in the red car pressed the accelerator. The little red car went got close to the Big white car. It looked like an ant chasing elephant. After ten minutes The white car reached necklace road. Aruna stopped her car at the Love HYD sculpture which was erected on the edge of Hussainsagar lake.  A boy took photos leaning to the giant letters had gone. Aruna got off the car and looked around. The road was empty. She looked at the letters " Love HYD." How can I love Hyderabad when I can not love my life?" She went behind the letters. There was iron railing with silver coating. She stood there looking at the water. Is the water deep enough ? She was thinking. 

146 deaths and 510 suicide attempts since 2013 maximum dept is 32 feet average depth is 5 meters. Somebody is reeling out the details. It is a voice familiar to her. Aruna turned her head and said " Durga prasad! you are here?" I must ask you that question. Aruna was silent. How is Lakuma? Aruna broke down. She felt awkward about herself. 

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Durgaprasad's office. Aruna sat in the sofa. Durga prasad sat on the writing desk. He slid off to the ground from the desk and said "Relax Aruna! I am your childhood friend. You are spotted by me not by a stranger or by TV cameras. Why do  you think you are humiliated? Aruna remained silent. Durga continued, "You may think that you washed the dirty linen in the public. You have lost your face. Your daughter is stubborn. but she is not ruined. Even if she is ruined she can come up. I was ruined in my youth. I was in love  with the girl who made me wait and wait until all her family problems are solved and finally gave me a big shock." Durga smiled.  Aruna looked surprised.  The boy brought coffee. "How could you smile in the face of defeat!" said Tara.  " Have coffee, later you can get surprised" He smiled again. Aruna finished coffee and asked "Durga, there is no trace of slight disappointment about it. How could you manage?"  "Aruna, if you expect disappointment you will never get disappointmented. I expected disappointment and shock from the girl I loved. The same thing came true. " Is she married ?" asked Aruna. No she is not married to anybody she can not trust anybody. She can not trust me too."  Durga prasad smiled. Aruna felt sorry. 

Look these are are trivial problems. A well disciplined and well planned life may end up suddenly. What happened to Kalpana chawla ? She studied well, scaled great heights, got a job in the NASA but her life ended suddenly while she was still young." Durga paused and looked at Aruna. " But that is an accident." said Aruna.  " Well life itself is an accident. Not just one accident a series of accidents. I got several accidents later." Duraga paused again. Aruna looked dismayed. " You mean you fell in love again?" Durga laughed. " I lost love on love. I got a professional accident. This channel for which I was is in financial doldrums. In fact most media houses have no TRP ratings. They have no business that means no income. Many big media houses are unable to pay salaries. They are ready to sell the channels. Our channel is on the same path. I am in the same boat as hundreds of other journalists. It is six months since I received my salary.   Aruna's shock deepened to see the smile in Durga's face despite his survival problem but suddenly she remembered Sominaidu and the party leaders who laughed at her. 

She said " My problem is public humiliation. I am more humiliated than Draupadi.  

What about Sita who was kidnapped by Ravana for no fault of hers? What bout Ahalya who was cursed to be a stone while Indra was left off ? What about Rambha who was raped by Ravana?  when She tried to seduce Viswamitra he cursed her to be a stone for ten thousand years in the forest. Are not they great epic figures ?  Are they not humiliated? 

Draupadi was disrobed right in front of her husbands in the presence of full court.

My dear Aruna Poolandevi was married at the age of 11 faced sexual torture by 35 year old husband. She was publicly raped for seeking justice. Have you forgotten Rupa deyol Bajaj IAs from punjab was touched on her back by the famed KPS Gill the then director general of Police. She only lamented the injustice!  Varsha joshi another IAS from Delhi had similar humiliation and Riju bafna is an other IAS fom Gujarat who had similar bitter experience she took umbrage and commented that " In India there is no dearth for such men"  She had to apologize and withdraw her comments in the wake of raising public discontent. Many women although stationed at a high position could not just remained as women unable to raise their voice to question injustice but you are able to.  You blasted Sominaidu. Many people will take pride in you. They will be appreciative of your bold attack.  You must be happy about it. 

Aruna was clearly consoled. All her emotions cooled down. She looked as calm as the pacific.  You have removed the stains of inferiority I felt and filled me with confidence. Durga, can I offer you some financial help? she said taking a pack of currency from her hand bag. This is clearly humiliating a childhood friend. Durga smiled Aruna had to put the money back. 

 "Only if I am educated I can take up a good job.  I failed in politics. I want to quit politics."

Your tenth class has made you voracious reader. I know you keep reading history and literature. learning the academic syllabus can not make one educated. One should read thoroughly and acquire knowledge first, then that knowledge has to reflect in his manners then only a person is called educated. Today's education can not educate people because it is on the wrong path. 

Umm!! Durga prasad's education philosophy! You did not tell me if I should continue in politics? 

Who said that you failed in politics? If you quit politics it is like cutting the nose to spite the face.  win your spurs and prove that you are capable. Quitting politics is resigning to fatalism. keep fears at bay and accept Shashi's invitation in Mumbai. 

How do you know about his invitation?  Duraga laughed I am a journo girl!

When Aruna heard the word "girl" she was instantly transported into her childhood.

It is not that diamonds are woman's best friends, best friends are woman's diamonds"


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Like a snake that casts off its slough Arunatara had cast off her frustration when she reached home. It was evening and the sun was setting in the western horizon.  when she entered the living room she saw Kesava sitting on the floor and watching Arunatara's anguished face and tearful eyes on the television. Naidu's face was shown laughing while Aruna was crying foul. It was afternoon program now being televised. Kesava was absorbed in the television. He did not notice Aruna entering the hall. 

Tears was trickling down the cheeks of Kesava. He began crying loudly. Aruna took the remote from the glass table and changed the channel. Kesava looked at Aruna and stood gazing at her while she was switching the channels. She changed the channel. It was  showing the Velugu party meeting. The footage shows Aruna getting into car and driving away. The same footage was shown repeatedly. She changed the channel. There Aruna was speaking with the news reporters about the injustice and humiliation meted out to her. She went up and down switching the channels. Everywhere the same visuals.  a vexed Aruna switched off the television and collapsed in the sofa. 

Kesava had woe betide and haggard look.  He came and sat at her feet. Aruna lay her hand on his head affectionately.  She fondled his hair. She had no words. suffering is inevitable in life. They both were dumb.  Dwaraka villa was as dumb as they are.  The garden was also deathly still.  There is no movement of leaf.  A high pitched bird call came from the deathly still garden breaking the silence. The bird was making varied sounds. The sounds were increasing as if the bird was calling them. Aruna entered the garden to see the bird. Kesava followed her.  Amma what is the name of this bird? asked kesava. 

This is Chataka bird. A legendary mythological cuckoo, who is unwilling to drink water found on earth, It drinks only fresh pure rain water as it falls from the sky.  Kalidasa used it in his "Meghadoota" as a metaphor for deep yearning and this tradition continues.  It has the hope and patience to wait. 

This bird is  symbol of hope and patience. Kesava  got a message that Suffering is inevitable in life. His heart is light he ran to the bathroom and turned on the geyser. Aruna moved as it is completely dark. She sat in the rocking chair.  Nature has soothed her heart. She did not want to touch the TV. Kesava went into the kitchen, prepared tea and brought it to her. "Amma tea" He said. "Where is Lakuma?" asked Aruna. "She went out to with her friends." said Kesava. Aruna started sipping the tea. Kesava went into his bedroom and  brought the mrudangam. While Aruna wad taking the tea He spread the mat and  started playing slow paced base rhythm called Gumiki with his left hand and gradually ascended the scale and started playing very complex Druvatala which only a Percussion Maestro chooses to perform.

Tha thaam thadim thadim thadin thadin thakun gida gida tadigida tathadi gida gida tadigida tathadi tha thaam.. Aruna was rocking gently in the rocking chair she is not in this world. She has outside the body experience. She is floating on the clouds. Suddenly the telephone rang. " Lakuma's car met with an accident on Shaadnagar highway at Maheswaram." The voice said. Arun had a thud fall from the clouds. Her peace of mind is evaporated. She is instantly on flames. She became nervous. Her legs trembled. Kesava saw sweat on her forehead and neck. He overheard voice on the telephone and understood what happened. He saw Aruna running to the car. She did not bring the car in. The car was ready out side.

Kesava ran faster the Aruna and dashed into the car. Sitting behind the steering wheel he opened the door and Amma please relax. Hardly had Aruna stepped in than the car shot like an arrow. Kesava is the cub, the combination of precision engineering and aerobatics.


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The Accident - The new jet black Terracan is going towards Shadnagar.

The road is beautiful and broad

The weather steals beholder's applaud

With high and low gear wheels

with back and large sports wheels

The car is like a vessel floating on water.

The exterior of the car is gorgeous,

The interior is filled with laughter

The girls in the car are glamorous

The interior is rich and enormous

The upholstery is soft like mother's lap

The travelers instantly slip into nap

Inside it feels like a baby's smile

Oh! what a steering! what a style!!

Behind the steering wheel sits a louts eyed slender beauty. Her hair is thick, long , black and soft like silk. Her fingers are like ladies fingers. Perhaps she is made of butter. Her name is Pallavi ( meaning leaf) is epithet of her looks. She is pressing the accelerator with her tender betel leaf like foot. Her friends Surabhi, Sravani, Madhuri sat behind her and Lakuma beside her in the front seat. Pallavi is frightened at passing vehicle that crosses her vehicle closely. She often slows down, pulls her vehicle to the left, she curses the passing vehicles. Suddenly a young boy of with a sports bike darted like a sparrow, crossed the car by an inch. The speed was too great and the distance was too close. She pulled her car to the left and started fretting and gasping. Pallavi and Surabhi were dazed. Look he is stunt biking shouted Sravani. Lakuma looked ahead through the windscreen. The dandy just bent the bike to the right so low until his knee almost touched the ground. Then he bent the bike to the left in the same style. Later he performed sparks and snakes. A little later he lifted the front wheel went ahead a few meters, then lifted the back wheel and looked back. Pallavi was frightened out of wits. Her tight orange blouse bulged out of proportion is bouncing to match her emotion. " Now look, there is a speed breaker ahead, It will take care of his joints" said Surabhi. But that fellow is too smart. He skipped off the speed breaker raising his bike four meters into the air. OMG shouted Sravani. He looks like the hero in the Greek literature the fiercest warrior of Homer's Trojan war Achllies. He is more like Olympic stuff ! What is he doing on Hyderabad roads?" exclaimed Madhuri. Oh! great warrior off course can resist swords of steel but not feminine charms. A man who swallows a bullet falls for a slut." said Pallavi

All the girls in the stopped car are laughing at Pallavi. Lakuma looked at Pallavi impatiently and shouted seriously " What the hell are you doing? stop your silly illogical jokes" " It is true, let me explain said Pallavi and continued " You know ISRO's National remote sensing centre in Shadnagar which receives data from Indian and foreign satellites" Pallavi stop your extraneous rhapsody. Tell me what is the point!" There is a point , listen a man can cross marvelous hurdles on the road but it is impossible to cross the toughest hurdle marriage. Any hero but falls flat in the ditch of marriage! My father who works in National Remote sensing center as a scientist . He can assess the mass of any object in the space from pin to a mountain, a telemetry expert but alas! when he goes to shopping with my mother the clockwork in his mind goes whirr .. his mind becomes blur he can not calculate how long she does the saree selection. He can not count the things she bought and always faces music with a dazed face. On top of it, he can't even manage the stove for a minute. The man who controls satellites becomes a satellite and goes around my mom like a satellite. "

Should we wait until he is married or should we search for a girl. Lakuma gave a sharp cut and gave a sharp look. She instantly sprang and took the steering into her hands displacing Pallavi slid to the back seat. Lakuma started the engine and pressed the accelerator deep and hard swiftly changing the gears. Her gaze is fixed on the road on one object that is the orange sports bike. She looked like unstoppable (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Robo cop. Yes Lakuma never blinked her eye. Her driving is so audacious that it is the not the wheels that squeal but the wind. The wind is dashing the windshield and making a bitter noise. The vehicles around are frightened and started running back. The girls were scared. In minutes the orange bike came into sight. Lakuma was speeding up and nearing the dandy, the whipper sniper. He saw the car coming like a whirl wind. He tried to escape but the lynx had already crossed him. It was such a sharp cut that the body of the car just tipped the bike. the bike was grounded in no time.

Luakuma turned the wheel to the left of the road. While the car was turning to the left she pressed the brake The giant vehicle was scooped by the force dragging the tyres on the road. The vehicle turned 180 degrees, turned its face from south to north. Now Terracon stood facing the bike. The bike lies on the road a few inches from the front bumper. Lakuma saw the man from over the dashboard through the windscreen. The girls opened the window glasses and stuck their heads out of the window for the clear view. Lakuma pressed the accelerator and generated terrible hurricane sound from the engine. The girls shut their ears. the man was shit scared. He appeared to have pissed in the pants. He stopped lifting the bike from off the ground and lifted his hands and folded them to Lakuma and then to all the girls with apologetic looks. Lakuma stuck her head out of the window and said " I pressed the accelerator only if I put the gear .." her voice sounded steel. With legs trembling and voice blared he said, "My ... are in my mouth. His disbelief in his survival looms large on his shocked face. Lakuma silenced the engine and said " get off". The dandy picked his bike and licked the wounds. He disappeared in the next moment.

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The car was sailing smoothly. Madhuri said " We will get into police cases unless you refrain from your violent methods of takling men" Oh! God police cases! Sravani shivired like a tender leaf. Pallavi said "Let us go back. We can not go farther than this. My mother is very strict about time." Lakuma showed funereal face and said " You are lilly livered cattle. I am the daughter of Arunatara, She blew the horn with pride. None can touch me. She blew the horn again. I am confident of my mother. She blew the horn again. A White Mahindra Bolerio was going a head of the black Terracon. Three men are sitting in the white car. The driver looked back seriously. He put his hand out of the window and questioned her " why the horn?" That has amused Lakuma. She silently sped up crossed the car and starting driving irrecularly. The white car slowed down for a while but soon short ahead with a great velocity. Then it was Lauma's turn. The cat and muse chase led her to a disastrous end when she saw a truck ahead of Bolerio which was crossing another truck. She had to pull her car down to the extreme right into a sticky fields to dashing the truck.

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When Kesava and Aruna reached the spot of accident Lakuma was desperately waiting for help. Kesava who worked at a car mechanic attended the problem. In half an hour the Terracon was on the road. Kesava was driving the terracon while Aruna drove the girls in her Innova. " How did this accident take place?" " The truck has just crossed the Bolereo It was crossing another truck. It was his rash driving" said Sravani. The people in the white car are rash" said Surabhi. Aruna looked at Surabhi suspiciously. She demanded truth. " If you don;t tell the truth I will come and meet your parents" she raised her voice. " Lakuma's rash driving is the reason... Pallavi told everything from the beginning.

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It was 10.00 pm when Arunatara reached Dwaraka villa. Aruna was fatigued and Kesava was fearful as he suspected a verbal crash. The night was calm. The air was pleasant. The tranquility seemed to be the forerunner of a war. Lakuma went to bath. She looked tipsy and was staggering a bit. Her clothes and body was muddy. Aruna asked Kesava "what happened in the afternoon?" Kesava said " There was a party in the afternoon. Chitra came with her friends. She brought a bottle. Koteswarrao also participated in the party. But don't tell Lakuma that I have told thee things." Aruna said " Ok" Later kesava took bath. Aruna served supper to both. Kesava went into his room after finishing the supper. Lakuma and Aruna were at the dining table.

What happened in the afternoon?

Nothing happened.

Why did Chitra come with her friends?

Lakuma was silent.

Why did the Bank manager Koteswarrao come?

Who told you all these things?

Some Tom Dick and Harry. Tell me is it true?

You don't offer a cell phone, Koteswarrao has sanctioned student loan. He promised to give any thing I need. Lakuma looked at her mother who looked like the mother Kali. "Yes he serves your need later you have to serve his." Said Aruna. Lakuma was a bit frightened and continued " You don;t trust me but he trusts me. I regard him as my father."

All the seriousness in Aruna flew away. She began laughing at her daughter." Look Lakuma maybe you are regarding him as a father but he is not regarding you as his daughter. You will understand my words when you are in neck deep troubles. He is a butcher he will lead you to slaughter. Did you drink with Chitra? I want only truth! tell me. Aruna shouted. Lakuma with a tipsy mind shouted " Yes, we had a divorce party when you are away" The next moment she had her mother's hand on her jaw. " Divorce party!!!" exclaimed Aruna.

Yes Chitra got divorce so she celebrated with us. You are a dictator. I will go to Kerala and stay with my father." She went into her room and shut the door behind. Aruna's senses are benumbed. Her heart was throbbing. God save Lakuma! Her conscience groaned.

The Indian who wrote more books in Foreign languages

 Poolabala wrote most books in Foreign languages. He has written books to learn foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, ...