Veerankutty Mehfil

Veerankutty Mehfil Oct 2017

Embrace

Worried, the leaves
Might brush each other,
We planted the trees
Apart from one another.
Under earth with roots
They hug all together.

Translated from Malayalam by Ullas R Koya

Veerankutty Mehfil Oct 2017

Still

Why doesn't God
Still end the world?
Must be waiting
For two lovers
In world's some corner
To wind up their talk.

The end of the world
Seems no where near.

translation from Malayalam by Ullas R Koya

Veerankutty Mehfil Oct 2017

within the woods

Within the woods
You shall keep
Looking at me
And me at you.
Just to know -
who among us
Will wither first
When autumn comes.

Translated from Malayalam by Ullas R Joya.

Veerankutty Mehfil Oct 2017

Hidden

The river can
Keep its love
As a secret strong
Only until the waterfall.

Translated from Malayalam by Ullas R Koya

Veerankutty Mehfil Oct 2017

secret

What rain couldn't say
Lightening scribbled the same,
Thunder
Is such a fumbler friend
Howled aloud the whole bit.

Translated from Malayalam by Ullas R Koya.

Oct 2017

Sara Teasdale

Message

I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!

It was your voice I heard,
You waked and loved me so—
I send you back this word,
I know, I know!

— The End —