A vacana kavita by paapinEni Sivashankar

Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Tue, 11 Jun 96 15:30:41 CST



Sometime ago there was a 'high horse' castigation of environmentalists,
by a self styled corporate guru on the net. That was, I believe in
response to another nettor's introduction of a short story by OlgA in
which MNCs were shredded to pieces for making arable lands arid for
profits. The present poem by Sivashankar, a Ph.D., in literature, a poet,
a critic, an editor and essayist who makes a living as a lecturer in
Bhagavaan Sree SatyaSaaibaabaa College in taaDikonDa. Sivasankar has
published stabdata-calanaM, oka saaraMSaMkOsaM, poetry volumes and maTTi
gunDe, a short story collection. He has co-edited kavitA O kavitA(1994),
an anthology of 100 vacana kavitalu that were published during 1981 - 1990.

The following poem is dedicated by the author to the cotton farmers that
committed suicide in 1988, and it should be an irritant eye-opener to the
convoluted thinking of the MNC supporter-gang! But any way, should the rest
of us care for the Strom Thurmonds of Environmentalism!!


nAgali viriginappuDu

by

pApinEni SivaSankar

purugunu caMpalEni maMdulu
raitu prANaM teeyagaligi nappuDu
maMdullO kalteelEdani rAbaMdulu prakaTistayi
paMDiMcE nEla AkASamai tiragabaDi
tana nettinE kooli nappuDu
nEraM prakrutidani siMhAsanaM tElcEstuMdi

saMcalana vArtalu udayaM Tee lO naMjukunE vALLaki
okka kshaNamE AScaryaM
maLLee evaDi murugguMTalO vaaDE
aarcEdevaDu atani kOsaM EDcEdevaDu
kAsEpu doMgEDupu kuLaayeelu kaarataayi
vicaraNa taddinAlu nirvighnaMgaa jarugutaayi
booju faiLLalO vaastavaalu samaadhu lavutaayi

maTTi manishi tana kaTTu taaDu teMcukO lEDu
meDa meeda kaaDeMduku mOpayiMdO
paMTeTlaa paraayidaiMdO
pasi gaTTa lEDu
abhimanamE migiliMdi ganuka
appuDappuDu aatmani dhvaMsiMcu kuMTaaDu
mEtEsina ceyyi buggi paalainaMduku
koTTaMlO mooga paSuvE rOdistuMdi

nEnippuDu
nepaM nElameedO gaali meedO tOsEstE kudaradu
nEla mOsaM ceyyadu
nEraM tappakuMDaa manishidE
nEnippuDu
vaaDi cEtilO paMTa nollukoni
kaMTlO kaaraM jallina vaaLLanE praSnistaanu

khamDaaMtara laavaa dEveellO
jaati vennemukani taakaTTu peTTina vaaLLanE praSnistaanu
Savaala vusuru pOsukunE ceekaTi Dabbunee
daani kaavali kukkalnee praSnistaanu
maTTini nammukunna batuku maTTI lOnE poli ayinappuDu
adi khaccitaMgaa hatyE -
cEsiMdevaranE nEnu prasnistaanu


Regards.

--- Venkateswara Rao Veluri