Gedicht
Varavara Rao
The Bard
When the order is amissAnd billowing pitch-clouds of time
Strangle the throat
Neither blood trickles
Nor tears drop
Lightening swirls into thunder,
Drizzles surge into deluge, and,
Absorbing mother’s tears of agony
Purl out from prison grills
Voice of the poet’s missive.
When the tongue pulsates,
Tone manumits the air, and
Song turns missile in battle
The foe fears the poet;
Incarcerates him, and
Tightens the noose around the neck
But, already, the poet in his notes
Breathes among the masses
The scaffold
Like a gravitating balance
Disseminates into earth
Challenges to death
And hoists the paltry
Hangman colonist
© Translation: 1997, D. Venkat Rao
From: Pretext: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Vol. 18: Nos. 1-4
Publisher: Victor Vitanza, Clemson, 1997
From: Pretext: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Vol. 18: Nos. 1-4
Publisher: Victor Vitanza, Clemson, 1997
For Benjamin Franklin Molaise
THE BARD
© 1986, Varavara Rao
From: Bhavishyattu Chitrapatam
Publisher: Vijayakrishna Printers, Vijayawada
From: Bhavishyattu Chitrapatam
Publisher: Vijayakrishna Printers, Vijayawada
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THE BARD
From: Bhavishyattu Chitrapatam
The Bard
When the order is amissAnd billowing pitch-clouds of time
Strangle the throat
Neither blood trickles
Nor tears drop
Lightening swirls into thunder,
Drizzles surge into deluge, and,
Absorbing mother’s tears of agony
Purl out from prison grills
Voice of the poet’s missive.
When the tongue pulsates,
Tone manumits the air, and
Song turns missile in battle
The foe fears the poet;
Incarcerates him, and
Tightens the noose around the neck
But, already, the poet in his notes
Breathes among the masses
The scaffold
Like a gravitating balance
Disseminates into earth
Challenges to death
And hoists the paltry
Hangman colonist
© 1997, D. Venkat Rao
From: Pretext: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Vol. 18: Nos. 1-4
Publisher: 1997, Victor Vitanza, Clemson
From: Pretext: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Vol. 18: Nos. 1-4
Publisher: 1997, Victor Vitanza, Clemson
For Benjamin Franklin Molaise
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