Shooting a sweet
Downy spear of a note
Into my anxieties
From the smooth rosy petals
Dabbed in black soil …
A mother sparrow
Darts off towards her baby nestling
Under the yonder umbrage
Picking one more worm by its beak.
On the last trace of tear
Off my eyelash
There bloomed
A thousand rainbows.
Original: Mamatha K (Telugu)
Translated By: Nauduri Murthy
Source: మెత్తని ఈటె
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