Lukewarm Heart Beat... Poem by Ch J Satyananda Kumar

Lukewarm heart beat
(gOruveccani guMDe cappudu)

Telugu original: Vijaya Bhanu Kote
English Translation: Ch J Satyananda Kumar

(Vijaya Bhanu Kote writes poetry in Telugu and English. She is a teacher by profession and lives at Visakhapatnam)

Like the lukewarm heart beat
Which changed her course
As if some cardiac pulse
Gulped down its own rhythm somewhere
As if born for me alone amid the sun rays
As if the eye’s gloom given way to rays of light
As if the dreams awoke in soul’s lap
As if a dense voice called near and took into embrace
All the crazy thoughts
The alphabets which departed leaving me alone
Have returned back in the way they departed
Sprouted hopes
Are smiling invisibly
Joy became a galloping wave
Surging ahead
Do you know what I am thinking of?
Perhaps I may swallow the ocean with much ease now
Perhaps I may soar high in sky with out any wings now
Look at me
All the fragrances of the blooming flowers are mine
All the fragments of the luminous moon light are mine
If I touch myself and see
All the singing tunes are, but yours.

Telugu Original:

gOru veccani guMDe cappuDu
tana gatini mArcinaTTu
ekkaDO EdO hrudaya spaMdana
tana layanu tAnE mriMginaTlu
ushassulu I madhya naa kOsamE puDutunnaTlu
kaMTi niSeedhi velugu rEkhalaku daariccinaTlu
Atma oDilO kalalu mElkoMTunnaTlu
cikkani svaramEdO dariki pilici akkuna chErcukunnaTlu
okaTE picci aalOcanalu
nannu vaMTarini cEsi veLLipOyina aksharaalu
veLLina daarinE tirigi vaccEsaayi
ciguru toDigina ASalu
guMbhanaMgaa navvutunnaayi
saMtOsham uttuMga taraMgamai
egasegasi paDutOMdi
naakEmanipistOMdi telusaa?
aMbudhini avaleelagaa taagagalanEmO ippuDu
rekkalu lEkanE AkASamlO egaragalanEmO ippuDu
chUDu nannu…
viccukunna kusumaala sourabhaalannI naavE
vennela veluturula tunakalannI nAvE
nannu nEnu taDimi cUsukuMTE
palikE raagaalu mAtraM nIvi! ! !