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Village life

Victoria A.M. has used village life to focus on the various environmental problems that today largely affect the lives of people. Displayed through village women, her `Woman' that shows numerous women in groups; speak of their needs and wants. In her `Pushkaramullakal Pookum Kalam', Victoria through a jasmine bush tells us of her own childhood, the sudden bloom of flowers in her backyard whose beauty exists only in traces in her life today.


TANYA ABRAHAM

writer

THE HINDU

Sunday, December 23, 2007

DREAM SKETCHES

















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Of the Indian villages

Filled with goodness

Of the fields, lakes, peaks and seas.

Wanders the mind

Like the grazing cattle

Scattered on the hillside

From the slopes of the valleys.

Where rural children

Gather cluttering seeds

That fall free from the tree.

The music of temple bells

Heralds the peaceful return

Of the doves to their coop.

The lush green fields

Rich in grains

That the winged friends indulge in,

The land of “kunjan”,

Kerala, the god’s own country.




Discrimination

Loneliness makes me graze

In the spiritual valley,

There the beautiful land follows me

And becomes lyrics of magic.

The light of night gleams

And the gleam reflects,

Due drops shower on my mind,

My mind of discrimination.



Vales

Snow falls across the deep valley

Like clouds,

Like sailing chariots,

Across the misty sky.

Alone you outrun

The hills that fly

Like a dot you overshadow

The golden rays

From hill to hill.

You spread yourself like

A dark woollen blanket,

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Childhood

As twilight spreads its blue wings

And the nightingale sings,

A thousand dreams unfold

As the sweet pomegranates bloom.

The sweet petals unfold

And wield the pollen dust

Heralding the song and dance of

The rustic maiden.



NISHAGANDI

Listening to the sorrow of a small little flower,

I sat down in the dawn for a long time,

In the blue moonlight,

Somebody had stolen her nectar.

While she distributed

The fragrant smell for other hearts,

A wandering fly had come,

Had stolen her nectar and was gone.

With this great grief,

Her petals slowly close,

Who would know my sorrow

At this phenomenon?


NEELA KURINJI

The pouring crimson hues from oil

Instilling the fragrance of sandal,

Your blossom overspreading

The snow-covered valleys.

The forests awake

To behold your wild beauty,

The blue fowl swims

Across the wild streams.

Under the blanket of snow

That hides the valley

You appear every 12 years

To make heaven on earth.

To change the colour

Of the earth,

To fill our dreams

Like the divine stream.



DREAM

Twilight sets in,

The birds fly homeward

To their nest,

The silvery ribbon sails across

The darkening skies,

A light breeze wafts through

The glass window panes,

The silver stars twinkles in the sky.

The pangs of emotion rise from within

Towards the blue sky

And borrow a blue lily from the heavenly lake

And places within its bosom,

There it nurtures with the warmth of life

In an earthen pot.

The spirit embodies itself in this earthen pot

And bursts forth into the five elements,

From which originates many twilights,

Hence this beautiful blue lily bloom,

The golden rays of solace and hope

Now spreads itself in the radiance of the world

Symbolised by the crescent moon in the blue sky.

The engulfing darkness which blankets

The sleeping hills and valleys,

Now heralds the glistening rays

Of the golden rising sun

The rustic beauty of the village fence

Overladen with flowers of various hues,

Visited by the angels of the earth

Fluttering about to greet

The dawn of hope.