Mango Bites

Kaveri

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02-మే-2013

1
A pining
for not having drowned like a paper boat
when you were impregnably brimming over the banks;
For having failed to play like a pearl of water
on the sickle of your waist
when the first signs of youth blossomed over there;
For not sharing a piece of firmament
standing at the threshold of your teary looks

2
Kaveri!
You are now an abridged version of your own epic
And me,
a worn out boat on your attenuating banks, and
a childhood running into the crimps
of those aureate saris drying up on your sands

3
As for the contentment, well, there is.

There is that satisfaction that you lie here
at the tips of my cilia

4
But,
It is to harbor oceans in my eyes
that I came here
It is to ripple handy around your ribs
that I came here.

5
Isn’t it Kaveri?

 

(On the Banks of Kaveri at Srirangam one morning)
 

Original: Afsar (Telugu)
Translation: Nauduri Murthy