Tripuraneni Srinivas - a couple of his kavitalu
Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Fri, 23 Aug 96 11:30:42 CST
I owe it to Tripuraneni Srinivas. He did a favor for me
and I could not reciprocate in time! Of course, hee did not
expect it, either!
This is what he wrote at the start of his 'rahasyOdyaM.'
--- aksharaaniki paalu taapi padaM cEyaali
padaaniki annaM peTTi vaakyaM cEyaali
vaakyaaniki sikshaNa icci kavitvaM cEyaali
kavitvaaniki jeevitaannicci aayudhaM cEyaali ---
ujvala ninaadaM
--- oTTi gODameeda ninaadaM raasi
sari kotta raajyangaaniki Onamaalu diddutaanu
maLLee pasipillaaDinai prapaMcaanni kottagaa oohistaanu
gOpee raMgu nuditi meeda
veera tilakaMgaa diddina jEguru raMgu aksharaalannee
okkO dvaaramai okkO rahasyaM lOki okkokkaTigaa viccu kuMTai
raatri pooTa deepa staMbhaM veluturu kooDaa aTu vaipE naDustuMdi
ninaada praayamaina jeevitaMlO
kavitvaanni niMpE ninnadaalanu
cinnappuDE nEnoo calapatee kalasi raasaM
ippuDu ataDE oka ujvala ninaadaMgaa gODa meeda prajvalistunnaDu
mEmiddaraM okE raatrini kappukoni paDukunnaM
okE svapnaMtO nidranu dEdeepya maanaM cEsaaM
okE jevitaanni sagaM sagaM jeeviMcaaM ---
Read the last line again! Sad, isn't it? I think the above piece
appeared in 'maccu tunakalu' published by TANA!
Tripuraneni Srinivas wrote, sometime in 1990 a very personal poem
"sooryuDinE kaugaliMcukuMTaanu." An excerpt from it tells a lot about him!
Here it is!!
.... okE kavitanu padimaMdi raastunna vaastavaanni nEneppuDoo
marici pOlEdu
manushulu kaaleegaa prati dhvanistunna daaruNaanni nEneppuDoo
dhikkaristaanu
iravai aidu sisira rutuvula saakshigaa anEka maraNaalanu
raalcukoni
anEkaanEka saarlu janmiMcina nEnu eekaalaM civara nilcuni manishiki
saMtakaM cEyaDaM nErputunnaanu
kottagaa oohiMcanidE nEneppuDoo jeeviMca lEdu
addaalanu baddalu cEyanidE nEneppuDoo visra miMcanu
vennela kurisinaa caMdruDini prEmiMca lEnu
daghdamaina sooryuDinE kaugaliMcu kuMTaanu.
Regards.
Venkateswara Rao Veluri