Monday, April 19, 2010

DAY DREAM

Trees
Climb to the hill.
Swaying hands.
Pressing feet.
Valley gazes.
Streams accolade.

Sea sees
Rains slow walk
Down the shore.
Her flying frock.

Sea calls
Rain strolls away.
Her hair soars.

Dancing butterflies.
Rainbow flakes on
Forlorn earth.
Silent sky looks.

Friday, April 16, 2010

NO MORE NUDITY

Fetid naked earth.
Open,paranoic sky.
Caustic privates of rivers.
Unfold rotten seas.
Baked barren hills.
Undraped wailing trees.
Ravished wounded forests.

sit,
Click the mouse,
Hack internet nudism,
Until dead soil exposed.

No erection.
Nothing.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I P L

I

Moulds change.
Beholders transmute.
Stadia alters.
Copy books corrode.

Who recalls
The black dominance
Of Gary Sobers,
Gavaskar's
Love like shots,
Kapil Dev's inswingers
That soared as swans,
Sylvan sway of
Vivian Richards,
Imran Khan's leap
As Albatross,
And the dying earth?

Off the fields
The stars'll be
Dissembled by clouds
All of a sudden
Age gulps them.

Who recollects
Memories?

II

Young Suns
Throb in the net.
Spectators uproar
In their strife.

Nothing changes but change.

Let the celebration on.
Let the cheer girls foam.
Let the spicey I P L
Dazzle in the market.

The quest for drinking water
Probes the moon.
Life ends in
A maiden over.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

SACHIN TENDULKAR

Crimson parakeets
And white doves
Flew from the crease
Nestled in hearts.

The bat touched
Grounds blossomed.
In each petals
Gods scribbled verses.

Seas stormed out
With the frolics in the pitch.

Colours melted
In the ivory of the bat.
Sounds merged
In its silence.

The past waited.
The present,grateful.
The future'll make tales.

Not mortal and immortal.

The magician,
With a wand of willow
Regained those haven't history.

A sailor
Marooned in storm.

In ways obscure,
Boldly explored
The unknown.
.......Thus wrote
a bee,
Frenzied in the might
you wielded the bat.

But, dear Sachin
I hate you.
'cause
Like a slave,
I'm in a slum,
Where
your sixer cannot reach.

Friday, April 9, 2010

RAJAM PUSHPAVANAM:IN MEMORY OF A UNIQUE VOICE

This dates back to a score of years. I met Perumal Muthiah in Aavarampalayam, Coimbatore. He was a devout music lover and a true friend, through him I happened to know about a lot of things in life. He owned a marvelous collection of music records and cassettes. I was a vagabond then, he took me as his roommate, fed, clothed and kept me alive in those years of penury.

I accompanied him in his long journeys to 100 feet road, Gandhipuram, Maruthamala, those rambles provided apt background for discussions on world literature, music and everything under the Sun. He introduced me to maestros like Tiger Varadachari, Kishori Amonker, Karaikkurichi Arunachalam, M.D.Ramanathan, Chandru Atma, Mallikarjun Mansur, Mehdi Hassan etc,. I heard Mohammad Rafi’s Hindusthani Bhajans for the first time in Muthiah’s gramophone. He was a cornucopia of knowledge. I learned of film directors like Mahendran, Rudrayya; writers like Kulaikoothan, Mouni, Na. Muthuswamy ; painters like Aadimulam, danseuse like Leela Samson, through him.

I heard of Rajam Pushpavanam from Muthiah who was an ardent fan of her. He appreciated her ,used to say of her ‘ostensible voice’, those were his own words on Rajam. Later in our travel to Himalaya; in a frosty night ,near Adibadrinath temple, I heard Rajam’s serene rendition in Muthiah’s taperecorder. It cured me off all the pains and it proved again that music is a panacea.

In ‘Philosophical Studies on East and West’ by Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam, he pointed out Rajam’s soul stirring expatiation in the chapter dealing with music and philosophy. While reading I mused on that unsung artist. Since then I never heard anyone mentioning Rajam Pushpavanam related to music.

I came to know that later Muthiah had become an ascetic and now I have no idea of his whereabouts. Whenever I hear Rajam Pushpavanam’s blissful voice , I remember Muthiah.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

MICHAEL JACKSON

Feet
Disseminated storms.
Nothing dismantled
Everything originated.
Lost blossoms,
Birds,trees,seasons.

Spindle body effused
Thunder and lightning.
Afreshed sky and earth.
Gulfs among mankind
Faded off.
World become a
Toy of kids.

Arms throbbed to hug
The dying earth.
Music effloresced
From the quivering.

Childhood devastated.
Youth wanted to mend.
But death, clowned.

Taught loneliness
In fame and furore.
REAL MUSIC TOO.

Monday, April 5, 2010

KASHMIR

VISIT-I

On taking leave
Nafisa gave
A Chinar leaf.

Chart of tears
Glowed in it.

Mist nestled trees.

Stars melted
In Jhelum.
Bluish hearts
Flew over as moths.

VISIT-II

Curfew torn streets
Speeding army trucks.

Election posters
Plastered wounds.

Gunned down twilight
Fluttered in the Dal lake.

Alone,at night
To Chasmeshahli.
Haunted in memories
In Gulmarg.
At Khulanmarg
As destitute.

Infront
Hurriedly
A Chinar leaf falls
Glued
In human flesh and blood.

Frightened Jhelum
Flows feverish.


*Jhelum, a river.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

GLOSSARY OF PRINTED MATTERS , ANTHOLOGIES

*Mathrubhumi Daily(Nagaram,August 8,2009)
*Mathrubhumi Weekly (August 14-20,1994)
*Madyamam Weekly(New Year Edition,January 5-12,2009)
*Madyamam Daily(Sunday Edition,January 18,2009)
*Kunkumam Monthly(March,2010)
*Keralakaumudi Daily(Sunday,April,26,2009)
*Kalakaumudi Weekly(Onam spcial,August 22,1999)
*Sahithyalokam(Kerala Shithya Aademy,july-August,2009)
*Keli(Kerala sangeetha nadaka academi,August-November,2007)
*Malayalam Weekly(July 4,2008)
*Deshabhimani daily(Inter National Film Festival edition,2009)
*Bhashaposhini Magazine(September,2005)
*Veekshanam Daily(Sunday,October12,2008)
*Malayalam Weekly(July6,2007)
*Padabhetham(February,2003)
*Madyamam Weekly(November 5,2007)
*Janayugam Daily(Sunday,July 19,2009)
*Kalakaumudi Weekly(June 15,2008)
*Janayugam Daily(Sunday,November 16,2008)
*Tejas Daily(Sunday,September 28,2008)
*Kalaveekshanam Monthly(September,2001)
*Vishakalanam Monthly(December,2002)
*Nilapad Monthly(November,2007)
*Athirdisa Monthly(March,2008)
*Kavithasngamam Monthly(May,2000)
*Madyamam WEekly(December 31,2007)
*Madyamam Weekly(August 3,2007)
*Gulf Voice Monthly(December,1998)
*Janashakthi Weekly(September 6-19,2008)
*Tejas Varshikam(2009)

ANTHOLOGIES

*Akashathile Arupikalku(Mulberry publications,Kozhikode,August 1996)
*R.Ramachandran,Kaviyum Kavithayum(Poorna Edition,January 2006)
*Malayalathinte Pranayakavithakal(Mulberry,2000)
*Yuvakavithakuttam(D.C.Books,1999)