Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
R. S. SUDARSHANAM
(Translated from the Telugu by the author)
At creation’s first dawn
you and I, flower-petals
enfolded in soft slumber
slippedâ€� Â
sailing apart to unknown shores
in a quest mutual.
Do you know me?
Experience’s imprint has drawn
many time-wrinkled fantasies,
life has deprived me of all tenderness,
I am a love letter
scratched with sharp finger-nails
by a maiden desperately love-lorn.
That was Shakuntala’s, no doubt,
her innocent bright heart flashing thro�
the lightning etches on the lotus leaf.
But this one is flaming
incarnadine with the blood of endless separation.
You forget
our gandharvamarriage!
Well, mind is a tear-drop on the lotus leaf,
when it is set free
from the prison
of remembering and not-remembering
shall the reunion be
in oneness!
in the night of deluge?