Category: Poetry | கவிதை – ENGLISH | ஆங்கிலம்

I NEED YOUR STORIES MUMMY  / INDRAN / 1981 Mummy You have not told me any stories of Cinderella’s   getting golden gowns Grandmas baking cakes in the moon But you have taught me How to […]

The Fort of Delgres The head of Delgres alone Rises buried in the slopes of the green meadow As a wondrous stone sculpture. I stand beside the statue rising just above my head To be […]

The Solitude of the Island Yellow butterflies circling white acacia flowers. I sit Searching for my real self In the island’s solitude. My Indian soul Getting wings from the sea breeze Flutter On the blanched […]

I’m taking a rest Under the cool shade of the neem treeIn the cremation ground. Butterflies sucking honeyFrom yellow flowers tossingOn the mounds of graveFluttering their tiny wingsCelebrate absurdity. He’s enquiring everyone of the mourners In the […]

Every syllable is a sea.A void lies hiddenInto the roar of the waves.A glass of heady liquor,Full to the brim with red wine;A blood-stained dagger,Wrenched from out of the stabOn the back of a friend;An […]

Tamil original – : Indran Rajendran SudalaiI’m taking a rest Under the neem treeIn the cremation ground. Butterflies sucking honeyFrom yellow flowers tossingOn the mounds of graveFluttering their tiny wingsCelebrate absurdity. He’s enquiring everyone of the […]

Shadow-1/ Indran Shadows are mischievous.In front of our own eyesThey throw us on the ground And see a rehearsal today For tomorrow’s drama.– From ” Syllables of Silence” – 1981 Shadow 2 / Indan Amidst abominable city […]

On a lonely eveningTime came silent on little cat feetto the doorsteps of my artist studio . Peeping inside With its three faces –past, present and futureWhere eternity was written on every foreheadTime asked me politely“May I […]