Friday, August 1, 2008

A couple of Poems to Illustrate Thamizhanban's Poetic Techniques

A Couple of Poems to illustarate Thamizhamban’s poetic techniques
Thamizhanban uses innovative techniques to deliver his original thoughts for the benefit of the world.His poems reveal his international outlook, progressive thinking and socialist perspective.
In the following poem he makes a severe criticism of the human mind
Which always try to hide everything.
Human mind which wants to hide everything
The Universe
Which is always open
Never shuts its door
For probing quests.
The Wind
Never refuses
To unlock
It’s deep mind
To the flowers.
The waves
Expose the ocean’s secrets
Even after it is blocked many times.
The earth
Advertises loudly
the whereabouts of
the seed
which goes underground.
Even though
The volcano
Never opens its mouth
We are able to know the turmoil
Of its boiling mind
Explicitly.
Man alone possesses
The mind which is
Hiding all things
And every thing
And still trying to
Bury everything deep.
His views on August 15 (Independence Day of India)celebrations will give a clear understanding of his social perspective.
LONG LIVE OUR DEAR BHARAT.
I swear on
The Sun.
The country has developed
After 1947.
The India of our rulers
Has developed.
The India of Tata and Birla
Has developed.
India of the common man
Has not seen any advancement or development.
In the decorated carts
For Independence day &Republic day celebration
Has attained progress.
August 15 is
Stinking in the pavements of
The towns and slums.
Our people remain as corpses
Slaughtered by diseases and disasters,
thrown out by unemployment
And poverty.
In our country Industry
Has surely grown
By eating the livers of
The laborers.
Agriculture has grown
Sucking the blood.of agriculture-laborers.
after storing all these
whither goes Bharat devi?*
*(Bharat Devi is the personification of India as a Goddess)
She goes to the palaces of
Swadesi and alien capitalists
Who want to bite and pierce
Her breasts!
To The confidential rooms of political brokers
who were introduced by them.
To the kitchens of
Beaurocrats who are waiting there
To roll up or wide open the beds
The manthras
Which roarded
For the independence day celebrations
Are affected by paralysis
The nervous systems
Which gave a call against
Imperialism.
Are in deep sleep.
The fiery and ferocious
Idealists necks are under
The grip of
Opportunism.
Hereafter
Please do not celebrate
August15
As another ritual
Or annual death anniversary.
Let us find a new cheerful day
And name it as "August 15."
The above poem vehemently condemns of the prevailing social evils and try to give a clear understanding of our defects.
Thamizhanban strives to make an awareness in the minds of readers and his poems surely give a helping hand to him in his task.

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