saMkuraatri paMDagaMTa !!
Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Tue, 14 Jan 97 15:39:24 CST
[The author, whom I know very well wishes to remain
anonymous for reasons unknown and unnecessary for me
to snoop into!
The author claims to have recited a prosodaical variation
on the same theme in a poets gathering on saMkraanti day
of 1958, in which Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak also read
some of his earlier poems. I have no reason to doubt the
veracity of the claim. The present version, the author asserts,
is published in 1983 and has been recycled several times.
- Venkateswara Rao Veluri]
saMkuraatri paMDagaMTa!
-- anonymous
jeetaM
varoodhini lEta naDuM
piDikiTa paTTina taDuvade
kanu marugai pOyegadE
EdO taareekhE gaDuvade
saMkuraatri paMDugaMTa
padihEnO taareekhunaMTa!
RNaM
Daalee paartan urOja yugaM
bigi kaugali nimaDadu sarigada
iMtai, iMtiMtaii, iMtiMtiMtaii
vaTuDi moodO paadaMbaii
paataaLaaniki passportaaye.
muggu niMDukuMde
mukkanuma naaDu
bali rEDuki lEvu
baggeelu nEDu
boggu baMDilO
bai bai ceppi vEDu
buggitO alaMkariMcu
aggipeTTe nee iMTini.
akkaDa
yama raaju baas
ikkaDa
saNuguDu rojoo spouj
cikkullO paDina yOyOlaa
ninnekkadistunnaMta kaalam
liMgaDi vaahanaM
gaMgireddadElaa?
E manavaaDO O maMtrayitE
ee mana muddula boddula bulliki
asalu mogali poovu bOlu
amerikaa moguDu sElu!
saMkuraatri paMDagaMTa
padihEnO taareekhunaMTa!
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Regards.
Venkateswara Rao Veluri