Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Saaku hrudayagala ee antara...

My latest Kannada Poem. I wouldn't probably rate it as one of my best but hopefully it ain't that bad either.

One of my friends asked me sometime back : "why are all your poems hell-bent on creating suspicion amongst your female friends ?"... For some reason, I find it almost impossible to avoid using sakhi, gelathi or one of its synonyms while write a Kannada Poem.. Here is one more to that list.

Sakhi, hope you are reading :)

ninna prati vondu nenapu hrudaya geeteyaagi moodutide..
premada sarigama indu manavu hrudaya tumbi haadutide..
Sakhi, saaku hrudayagala ee antara, indu vondaagona baa..
nanna haaDige ninna haaDanu berasi merasi haaDona baa..


prati vondu kshanavu ninnade nenapu, ninnade kanasu..
ninna jothe-goodi jeevana saagisalu tudiyutide ee manasu..
Sakhi, saaku hrudayagala ee antara, indu vondaagona baa..
nanna kanasige ninna kanasanu berasi merasi saagona baa..


nanna payanake haadiyaagi, baalige deepavaagi nee bandiruve..
usirolage hesaraagi, dehadolage aatmavaagi nee beretiruve..
Sakhi, saaku hrudayagala ee antara, indu vondaagona baa..
nanna usirige ninna usiranu berasi merasi baalona baa..

P.S : Like usual, any grammatical mistake is poetic license :)

5 comments:

kv said...

never knew you could write kannada poems too.. hope 'sakhi' is impressed :-)

scorpion said...

so deep , abs love ur thought in this one !

good wrk :P

Sudhir said...

awesome kaNo.. I read it two times, and i liked it more the second time. I like you kannada poems more than your hindi shayaris\ghazals.. I think its because i understand them the very 1st time i read it, and i can admire the kannaDa words without having to look it up in the dictionary.

Shishir said...

@ kv

I do write in Kannada but not often.. just once in a while..

Shishir said...

@ sudhir :

Thanks kano.. I find it tough to write in Kannada and also I feel that it is not as sweet as urdu-mixed-hindi.. but ya, am getting into writing more Kannada poems.. Lets see..

P.S: I am learning Telgu.. Maybe, one day who knows.. guftugu-e-hayaat would become nena jeevana sambhashanam and sakhi would become priyuraalu ammai :P