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Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Fri, 26 Jul 96 17:20:44 CST



For your weekend pleasure, here is a nice poem in the teleMgaaNaa telugu! !
I have stumbled upon it while reading/preparing for another post(which may
turn out to be a long one, I am afraid!), on the transformation of old
symbols by some of our modern poets to convey new messages!

Krishna Murthy Yadav published a collection of poems entitled
'tokkuDubaMDa' in 1988, and the following poem'kotta bhaarataM' was
reprinted in 'kavitaa O kavitaa' anthology. krishna Murthy works as an
adult education teacher in the Labor Department of of AP Government.



kotta bhaarataM


maa taata bhaarataM SeppiMDu
kauravulu - paMDavulOLLu
nallala daggara koTlaaDiM-DrannaDu

draupati maana bhaMgaM
laaDgiMg laiyyiM-dannaDu

abhimanyuDu balla meeda katti peTTi
pareecca raasiMDannaDu

paMDavulu saccedaaka
vanavaasaM pOtaaM-DrannaDu

kauravulu yellakaalaM
rajyaM ElaccannaDu

kisTa paramaatmuDu geeta arjununiki
biyyaM lainla nilabeTTi seppinDannaDu

bheemuDu gaaMcu noone dorakaka
vaMTalu sEyalEdannaDu

ghaTodgajuni peMDli
biyyaM dorakka aagi pOyiMdannadu

Sakkara lEka bheeshmuDu
caaya taagalE-dannaDu

aakhariki raajyaM
kauravulOllaku dattamaiM-dannaDu

taata gidi bhaarataM kaadE - aMTE
kotta bhaarataM
ippuDu naDustunna
bhaarata mannaDu


-- Krishna Murthy Yadav (1988)

Regards

--- Venkateswara Rao Veluri