Re[2]:peddabAlaSiksha bashing...continued!
rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov
Mon, 27 Apr 98 10:02:42 -0600
Sree Nyayapathi Srinivasa Rao on 4/27/98 11:48 AM admonishes
me for reposting Jayaprabha's poems, thusly:
"---Sree Veluri reposts,
[cut] Afterall, it's a repost!
If you want to support feminist argument, you can post any lines
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written by any authoress.---"
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I think the above statement is disputable.
But, your tastes are different than mine. More over,
I don't have the courage or the intellectual stamina to
get into futile arguments about individual tastes.
"---if you want to post what can be called poems, probably you don't
have too many pieces from the authoress whose pieces you so often
post, repost and re-repost!---"
Again, I repeat myself. I know you are disgusted at
my irritating repetitions! Excuse me, Your Excellency!
de gustibus non est disputandum
(There is no disputing about tastes!)
"---'anudukaegaa vaaLLu RshUlu' is possibly the only poem by jayaprabha
which is feminist! The rest are advertisements (i don't wnat to qualify
this noun)!---"
Alfred Joyce Kilmer(1886-1918), an American poet,who was killed
in action in France during the First World War, wrote very little.
He was famous and very affectionately remembered for only one
poem; only single one poem!
It is called,
'Trees.'
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by foos like me,
But only God can make a tree.
What else can I say!
Thanks & Regards,
V R Veluri