Haiku Poems of Thamizhanban
Thamizhanban is a prominent poet of Tamilnadu,who has contributed volumes of Modern and modernist poems in Tamil and celebrated by millions of Tamil readers throughout the world.
He has produced meaningful and thought-provoking Haikus and they can be seen in the volume titled"Crescents of Sun"(Sooriyap Piraikal).
I have translated some Haikus and do hope it may be of interest to you also.
Satire
The Dawn's feet bound in chain
The Moon is varnishing
The Jail's iron bars.
The writings invited for
A Royal dinner-
The writer's soul hanging in the pen-nib.
I just dug a fountain in my mind-
Thousand people rushed
To sit and drink.
Self-pity
I was lying as a corpse
Felt immense pleasure
Never intended to stand again.
Metaphysics
Death--
The torch of the soul
In the journey of life.
Personality-builder
To the person who fell down ten times
Mother Earth kissed and told:
Already you have stood erect nine times!
Again andf again
The moonlight fell on it-
The rock blossomed into a flower!
Realism
Darkness remained in the hands
Which pushed out
The night.
Poetry --
Possesses thousand hands
Its begging bowl has a lot of holes!
Irony
The sky is beautiful!
The Earth is also beautiful!
I have a loaf of bread in my hand.
The fishes in the glass tanks
Dreaming much about
Rubbing shoulders with oceans.
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