THE HOT TEARS OF MY MOLTEN SINS

Mother dear!
On those distant days
I remained the fountainhead
Of your perennial tear springs!

'Live you long'!-
You blessed me
With overflowing mercy.

As a heartless boulder
I blocked your highways of breath;
'May you attain
The heaven on earth!'-
raising your godly palms
you blessed me tearfully
With no trace of bitterness.

Justices that were lip-locked
On those days of my arrogance
On to the thorny thickets
Have thrust me today.

yes,mom-
Encircling me today
Are the gory dances of weird miseries,
And the carcasses of peace and sweetness!
Jet forth today
From the caves of my eyes
The hot tears of my molten sins!

---S.CHANDRA KALAADHAR

O child ! should you weep?

O child !
Should you weep?

Who had shot scorching words
Into your delicate heart?

Who had rooted out
Your tender desires
With a blast on your back?

The expansive skies..
The countless clouds..
The kiss full moon..
The crawling breeze..
They all line up for you only-
All yours only!

O ignorant fools!
O tempestuous guys!
The children..
Are they not soft flower-balls?

Have you failed to notice
The reign of heaven
On the resting face of
Even a naughty child?

Have you not enjoyed
The shower of velvety flowers
In their moist prattles and
In the toothless laughs
Soaked in pranks?

Oh.!they are
The Nature's musical flutes..
Must birth only joyful songs..
Never the ooze of tears!
--S.Chandrakalaadhar

sunset and beyond

Stout-waisted clouds slowly limped across the skies.
When the sun withdrew his last glance from this world and slowly slipped behind the mountains I stood in rapt attention and saluted him in overflowing thankfulness.
Then ,all of a sudden an emboldened star peeped out of the skies in full blossoming smile.
In the distance a train speeded up as if in great hurry;it seemed to me as if its wheels ran over the other crashing.
At midnight some confused crows cawed feebly from their unseen nests.