Ullas R Koya

His fingers caressed her lips
His fingers ran through her hair
His fingers showed her the heavens
Then one day, she tamed down that thing,
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Dear Turtle,
Run slowly my dear friend,
I seek to rest here behind.
To run prodding back the earth-
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The instant I sit idle, you walk in.
I engage, amid turn idle, you walk in.
I choose the crowd but haste back,
sit idle and you walk in.
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Tapping the age old AC's rhythm
I slowly let my eyes close.

Black clouds amassed atop the green.
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Mother's love ran merrily down
Until was built a block trough
Lament she held abaft the skin
Leaked tears via cracks as grief grew.
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[Original: RanduKunjungal by R. Venugopal (Malayalam)
Translation by Ullas R. Koya]

The day before yesterday's
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The crowd is at haste
behind someone they hate.
Can't clearly make it out,
But audible is the shout.
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The sky unclear,
Black patches here and there.
Keen to hear the falls here.
But else says the current of air;
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മഴയോട് പ്രണയമാണെന്ന് നീ പറഞ്ഞു,
ആ മഴയത്ത് നീ കുട ചൂടി.
സൂര്യനോട് പ്രണയമാണെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞു,
വെയിലത്ത്‌ നീ തണല്‍ തേടി.
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പനിനീരോ, നീ പവിഴമോ
തീയുതിരും മലരമ്പോ...
അതുപോലല്ലെന്റെ പ്രണയം.
പ്രണയമേതോ, തമോവസ്തുവോടെന്ന പോല്‍
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പ്രണയം...
എന്താണ് പ്രണയം?
നൊന്തുരുകും വിശാല ഹൃദയം;
മുറുകിച്ചുരുണ്ട കരം;
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In the meadow where love blooms
ripe yellow leaves sprout out.
No glittering in the sun.
No dancing in the wind.
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