What do I write about love
What do I write about love
I don’t know if I can or ever
will
Love is a star shining so far
away
I look at it and guide my way
as He looks at me with kindness
Sweetness I can feel for a
split second
He fills my heart full of
emotion
I experience the new wave of
passion
I guess love is this sparkling twinkle in his loving eyes
I feel terrified when I get
weird thoughts
That I will never be able to measure the infinite
Lengthy distance bearing the
earth e’ the star
Except in my feelings
surmounting it all
When I turn my head and find a fallen rose
I pick it up to save my
healing heart
From falling apart or
shattering
Growing the feeling far from lust
I pick the flower from the
rusty
Train of leaves lying on the
ground
Reminding me of my duties I
left
Incomplete and, unfinished dust filled
Like the poem I intend to
complete
I keep it in a vase filling
the empty space
In every corner of my quietly
weeping
Mind, body, soul e’ heart
staring
Glaring the darkness around
Stopping my tears from
falling down
Running along so as to sowing
and raising the hopes of joy in their place
to Transfer onto mother earth
cover the spaces, blooming into
a rhapsody Of happiness,
Giving me smiling bouquet of
roses
Full of hope, returning the
embrace
Holding me in his tight hug
Identifying me with the larks
at the sea
Flying freely during sunset
or sunrise,
May I sing your sweet name o Lord, if you please,
Accept my appeals e’ bless us
O heavens,
Allow me into your temple,
church or Darga
to offer my prayers
God Bless us all with heavenly
success
For my beloved countries e’ civilizations
For my beloved, friends e’ wellwishers
from stars across the
universe e’
extra terrestrial space.
Thank you o Lord for
showing me that love thou are.
Dream
Lets be one tonight,
With each step that you take
In swinging me in your arms
And swirling in the sky
As I look into
Your smiling face
As it presses my lips
With the gentle
Softness and sweetness
I can feel touching
My soul and
Raving me with
Desire
I can only sing
That you love
Me tonight
Hold me close
To your heart
Let me be
With you
As I imagine in
The moonlit sky
The twinkling stars
And see you in my dreams
Vanishing into the
Night wishing
It to be true...
Life's Tests
My hands are
shaking
As I want to
write
My eyes are
crying as
I want to read
My heart is
Pounding heavily
As I want to
hold,
My memory is
fading
As I want to
remember
The things
waiting to be done
Except for one
thing
In my life,
My spirit is
calling
And my soul is
reaching out
To you in such
great happiness
And to such
great heights
Trust me
Everest ain't no
tallest
Compared with
your
Challenges and
tests
The Girl Child
My lovely child,
My unborn baby,
My future unseen,
May you live!
May you lead
The lives of many
To survive the times
Not be a pawn
In the game of power
I pray that you may
Be a light to millions
Showing path from
Darkness to light
Your Love!
Whenever the seasons change,
When the black birds sing,
When my heart springs with
The sweet songs in a melody
When you cared for nothing
In the wide world
Except to look into
My eyes with pure love
I looked at the blue sky
Reflecting as an ocean
Deeper than the seas
In your gentle stare
When it is the moment
Of your tender care
The roses in the garden
Felt so un-cared and
Dried up in the sun
As there was no softer
Touch than yours
For your love is enthralling
As a sweet song
That comes from a distant
Over the mountains
And hills where
The little birds nest and
The brooks run amidst
The pebbles and rocks
That cover the ferns
And the wild flowers
Swing in a fresh perfume
That fills my heart
And spirit with
Fulfillment
As if saying
You will love me
tonight
My Heart Seeks You Tonight
Tonight my heart
Seeks you
Tonight I feel like
Holding you
Tonight my mind goes
Swaying in air as if
You are taking me
In your arms, and
Swaying me off my feet
Tonight I feel like
bursting out in tears\
Tonight I want to
Wander into the thin air
Tonight I love to be with you!
Tonight I feel like I am
Young all over again
Tonight my heart desires to
Touch your lips
and be lost in the love
The colors I like
It
is blue all along-
she fills her heart e’ soul
Purple
was just another
Cross
of blue hue with pink
Jasmines,
jades and penguins
Almost
all shades in between
Black
e’ white are traversing
Her mind in
rays of the sun
So
are the moon and stars
Shine
in space sparkling
White,
with the proud
Colors
o’purple heart
Pink
healthy note o
Red,
blue e’ white
Sounds bright?
No
it looks great,
Nothing’s
more right.
What
is this she finds as if air tight?
Oh
jeez, this is her delight
To
hug him e’ hear him sigh
Giving
out a painful cry in shy
she knows he will not stop that night?
I
guess she will have to call it a night
Yet
it seems so tranquil and pleasant,
Worshiping
him e’ pouring her heart,
At a
magenta rose like Ajanta deity’s feet.
Stop
this please, she says out loud,
as she needs to read and write
It’s
ok for a little while, not throughout,
I
guess she can not stop with a thought e’
Ahem,
I cannot put my pen to write
Although
it is impossible to fight
I
guess she knows who he is
No
wonder he
was ecstatic,
O it is him, her sweet love
There
seems to
Be
no end nor a beginning
With
no rhyme or rhythm.
she has to
go to work right now
she finds it hard to concentrate or do anything
as she is falling so much
Behind she cannot
Watch
where she is
Treading
her feet are
so Heavy that she can hardly
See her toes, without bending
His piercing looks
are breaking
her shyness, and breaking her
backbones
O
please be gentle, she seems to say,
for
someone is bearing her heaving song
and wants to leave her sweetheart to continue at
A
later time and date till she completes her
work pending, yet she cannot help
How she loves his blue eyes shining bright
Lover
boy holding her captive, yet to preserve
the
home of her junior to come
With
round bright eyes, brown and curly locks
Of
hair playing on his temple, touching cheeks,
Eyes
and ears, with the softness of silk, looking
Like
bronze and copper with dark clouds of nimbus
Touching
the stratus joyously floating on waves o
Horizontal
parallel curves blooming colors of blue
With
a creamy transparent dew, dreaming under the
Stars
and sunshine not minding day or night waiting
To
arrive in a fine care of a nurse assisting the doctor
Untangling
the baby from her uterine home dominating as
The
moments pass increasing the rhythmic
Lamar
breathing of inhaling, exhaling withholding e’
Relaxing
each passing minute with pain throbbing with the wet
Sticky
slurge of amniotic fluid gushing out without an
Outburst
o’ complain, may I continue later sweetheart
She
seems to be saying just then the nurse says mantra
breath in and breath out and stop no further,
as she is
going faster, and slower on e’ on
The
cries of the baby bring the mama back to senses
Gushing
out the clear fluid out of her mammary
Giving
the baby energy and vitamins for life
Keeping
him off of the infectious germs
What
a lovely feeling it is every time
Holding
the new baby born, softer
Than
finest muslin or French
Chiffon
in ranges of rose
To
pink sweetly clean
Lovely
as a freshly
Bloomy
jasmine
O
baby mine
The
proud Mama’s Smiling
As
though her eyes are saying
Love
you kissing the papa, it is the new life that's
begun.
oh wait, it is just a dream, she is fantasizing,
may be in a different life it will come to be realizing!
IdentityI am that which is a dream to you!I am that which you can only imagine! I am that who touched the brightness, that you hoped you would see one day! I am your love, your ambition, your spirit that you cannot hold except see your reflection in me! I am your mirror! UHV Student Poetry |
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| Seeing you by Umadevi Pochampalli The first time I saw you, coming into the corridor, All I could remember Was the sparkle in your eyes! The freshness of being yourself, The agile way you carry yourself, it was a sight to behold! I still see you there, with your gazing stare, That can pierce any soul, to wake up and still be cool! And then when I saw you again, You stood for us With the strength of a mountain! Carrying the world On your shoulders, And never seeming to be tired! I sometimes saw you in pain, Although you would never complain, Sometimes just in concern, However I know After all that, I do not know you at all. May be a zillion years may not do, to understand the way I do or to perceive what you would. |
A decade back: An afternoon in
College Station by Umadevi Pochampalli As I sat in front of my porch, I saw one lady gathering flowers. She had a bunch of roses and lilies, Along with some daisies and also violets, she wore a blue flowing gown, and her high heeled sandals were quite dark for her pale blue stockings; She had a scarf darker than the sea, with flowers painted on it as if they were clouds. She had a light blue hat, to give her shade from the bright sunlight; she bent down to pick the blue bonnets, and looked at them with her pale blue eyes! I stood there for sometime, looking for the yellow school bus, and wondering why it is taking forever today. I went back again and was folding brown bags, tucking the stale newspapers within, and was thinking why my child wearing his green Peter Pan shirt is not home yet and what caused the delay. I was looking through the window, with my dark brown eyes as I stood there and watched the glare. |
Oneness
I came here to seek you,
To believe that it is true,
That I had never lost you,
To begin with
no matter what
you may say
I do know however,
You had never wanted,
Anything more than a gesture
To show that we respect
How then did this happen
That I am deluding myself
That one more time
I am none other than
Yourself,
And you and me are
Just one?
Love is an Enigma
I am not at all sure
Why I believe you
Or whether you do
Believe or not
Once the days are all gone
And the nights are gloomy
Whatever will
Be left for any one
Who could never
Know what true
Love is
Nor was it ever there
In this world
As I want to see clearly
I can not hold my self
In this spinning wheel
Of passion
And compassion
And sublimation
Spinning into
Colors
Unfolded or unseen
Ever before as if
Never before
A Wish From Heart
Each day ends in
turning into an evening,
Each moment counts and runs
to bring in a new moment
each moment folds itself in
delivering a new ray of hope,
although every day passes
through all these phases
it is never more new
than what it is today,
as I see you and recall
how sensitive to feelings you
are.
What is it that makes you
Give attention to what I do,
I wonder.
I really am so surprised to
Know someone ever had
Time and interest in
Dwelling into what concerns
me
So long my friend,
pleasure knowing you
hope to meet you someday,
before I say Au Dios
Be
Now you are
What you wanted to be
Now I am
Trying to achieve
What I believe
What I long to be
Now it is that
We are ourselves,
Now
We are
Moving
on
With
our lives
To My Love
I love you so much,
it is hard to hold it,
I love the way you look at us,
You care for us
And you are concerned
about us-
I sometimes did not do
What you thought I should,
I sometimes thought
It is all just some fun
Although I never imagined
Until I realized that
by hurting you this
bad
I will be hurt and
feel the pain forever
God, forgive me,
Bless our souls
Blunt reality
No matter how much she works,
Nor convinces herself,
She does not ever overcome
The emptiness in her heart.
Once she was innocent,
Had to face a blunt reality,
It's too late now,
Having faced the brutal knife of life,
That she can never regain
What is gone,
What was left
Undone or unborn.
Long road to travel..
With ups and downs and pebbles and sandOut in the moonlight or in the hot sun
Under the stars or in wilderness
One has to keep on going
Keep on moving, no matter
You have that friend going with you
Or takes a curve across the
Turning and leaves you
Without saying a goodbye,
You know he is out there
Safe and sound inside his home,
Wish him well as you move on with life.
Sparkling eyes
I look at the stars twinkling in the sky,Remember the sparkle in his eyes
The stars with phosphorescence
Shine through the space and time
Must have been quite long ago
Since they sent that luminescence
It is such a dark and cold night,
But the stars are shining bright,
Winter is clear of haziness
Once in a while I see some flutter
In the trees, the mocking birds
Seem to be disturbed a trifle
May be my night light has
Disturbed the baby birds a little
Out through the window panes
Starry sky surrounding the moon
Blasts a crescent laughter
Resembling his smile I adore
Filling my heart he smiles
Creates waves of blue blossoms
Breath taking and bountiful
Loving his naughtiness in the arc
Blushing in sweet melodious
Songs sung from the misty
Mountains in the rocky West
Resound the Western Alps
Until the Himalayas and east
Sages and saints chant aligned
In the day or night, dawn or dusk
Bring total peace e’ enlightenment.
You made my day!
I gathered some flowersOn my way from school,
Long stalked white and
Full of fragrance
I made a garland of
Those flowers and
Placed it around my
Neck at one time and
Looked in the mirror
The little girl that I was
Looking all so beautiful
Then I placed it over
Braided hair and looked
Up again in the mirror
I liked my face but not
What I was wearing
So I changed into
A long flowing skirt
Flowers embroidered
On it and a matching
Blouse that goes with
That beautiful work
Of art, and felt very
Very happy that
I could be the princess
Of my day and swing
And sway and sing
My mom was working
And looked at me as
She was passing through
The hallway and smiled
I was so happy and
Proud that I was loved!
Little did I realize that?
Up there is another
Creator, watching us all
Grow in our learning
And is equally happy!
His smiles flowering
In the valleys and hills
And brooks and bayous
As we made His day
By realizing!
- Uma Pochampalli Dec 19, 2011
Translations
H
Heart is a poet tonight
Heart is a poet tonight, and
Sadness is a poem
Every thing is a song tonight,
Listening to the songs of others, o you
May you (not) have fate of this kind
Come and look for your sake how I am living
With streaks of tears I have as
I am living from the wounds that you have inflicted
Having taken the dices from
The parliament of passion
I played with my fortune and
Though I won over the world
Here I finished my
game
lost my bet with you
Oh the way I did love
Was there anything to compare
Oh love how much we had
Holds no meaning
today
When I am not there
The world will weep for me
Looking for my traces,
Hey love is not a toy
That anybody can take
away from anyone
Suffer like what I am doing
Then think about it
I am just a traveler
Will go on today
However, what I have bet and lost,
I am going to win it back for sure
Pyar Maanga Hai Tum Hi Se
Pyar Maanga Hai Tum Hi Se
All I asked is love,
Do not say no
Come sit with me
Just come closer
Accept my love
Don't send me away
Sweet heart
What a beautiful night it is
Looks as if like a new bride
Let the awoken emotions
Speak for them
Do not restrict me tonight
Let me love you
All I ask you is love
Do not stop me
I saw you before,
I longed for you before,
I found you so precious
Give me your friendship
and do not stop me,
I ask for your love, do not go away
What a beautiful journey is it,
That you are my companion,
Think about those days that went by
And love me
Love me
I am asking love from you alone
Come sit by me and
Bend closer,
Do not stop me tonight,
Do love me
Just love me tonight
Transliteration of the song "Pal Pal Dil ke paas Tum Rahti Ho" sung by Kishore Kumar ji
Each moment I see you
By my side,
Each moment you are so close to my heart,
Life is a sweet thirst for love
You keep saying,
Every moment so close are you to my heart
Each evening brings a sunset veil on your face, dances
before eyes
Bringing me the fragrance of the dusk into your stature,
Brings me a sweet welcome song,
And my heart beats to its rhythms
I saw you last night
In my dreams
As if you were asking me to hold you in my arms,
What kind of a dream is it, what a relation is it
Though you are not any where with me
Why do I feel you are mine?
I keep thinking about it although I get scared
I keep wondering as I listen to you in my dream
Why don't you ever understand that I love you so very much,
As much as I am almost mad,
Would my words make sense
to only those who are so madly in love ?
You are each moment in me
As I dream of you day and night
Transliteration of the song "Chalte Chalte, Mere yeh geet yaad rakhna, kabhi alvida na kahna" by Kishore Kumar ji
As you keep travelling,
Remember my song
Don’t ever say good bye
While laughing and crying
You just mumble my song,
Never say good bye to me
No not ever
As we keep loving each other,
Let's get lost in some world,
And sleep in the lap of the winds,
Tired in one another,
You arrange the dreams
For us in the same way
Don't ever say good bye to me,
Keep singing my song
In the midway if we
Happen to part sweet heart,
And you find it difficult to be alone,
I will return to you my love,
Keep singing my song for me,
Never ever say good bye to me,
While weeping or laughing
Or just singing,
Never say good bye my love.
