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| Sri N Srivatsa |
Bio: Chennai-born Sri N Srivatsa is a retired banker living in Noida. Over the years, his poetry and translations mostly from Tamil to English and vice versa plus a handful to and from Hindi, have been featured on several journals and platforms. Ten volumes of Tamil poems by ten different poets and one volume of English poems translated by him into Tamil of yet another poet have been published so far. A collection of his English translations titled "Modern Tamil Poetry: A Miniature Canvas - Volume I with a poem each of 153 poets has just been released.
Have you ever heard
the tiny chirp of the hummingbird?
Or the fluttering
of a swarm of butterfly wings?
Perhaps your ears
have registered the plop of tears
shed on leaves by the night wind
which you call dew
as dawn nears
of a day new.
Maybe you have listened
to the earthworms
burrow into the soil
somewhat like men that toil
in search of fuel oil.
The worm leaves the ground
richer in its wake,
way different from man
who cares only for what he can take.
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