When the Sri Lankan poet reads Fernando in Bays

Chilla. A place for great writing. Send works to [email protected]. Also send photo and detailed address. Selected works will be published by the Editorial Board

1983
July
Colombo

Mother tongue
The mind stretches
Like blue
To novel
Goodbye sweetheart

2020
The plague

ഒച്ചയുമനക്കവുമറ്റു

Out
Coconut palms
Ima Chimmanavathe

Cold consciousness
Hanging
Misleading lines

Mood
Not damaged
Forget it
To be in demand
Worried
Poetry

Reading trembles

Pattappakal manhunt
Colombo
1983
Regular view

Baking dance
Words
Spread out
Defending

Chest swells
Breathing no
Forbidden
Nila called
To the scrolls of the word
Collapsed

The fire is burning
The smell of petrol
Closed carriage
The victims survived
No outstretched hand
Flames
With mercy
Lying

Children

Beyond loneliness
A lifetime long
Charcoal burns
They do not

Genocide
Looking for a new way
Of barley
പേക്കൂത്ത്
1983

2020
The plague
Cancer Treatment Center
Seeing the embodied dragons
Perumnov
മിഴിതാഴ്ത്തുന്നു
Heavy depression
Not in thought, not in sight
Only on the body

പെരുമ്പറയറഞ്ഞ്
One question
To the poet

One of the victims
Blind and deaf
What’s dumb

Where is the crescent
Shuladhari Kalaratri

Here it is
That burned
To point out
Camera or micro
The road is not gone

Even then
And then
Wet the map
Bloodstains
The dark ages
In one word
Poisoned

Milk thistle
The hair is pulled out

Despite the frothy foam
Perumchetham Poranj
Wave
Shaking

പൊയരാവുകളിരുണ്ടു
Atheria *
Did not open his eyes
Ash-covered coals
Shining

Forget it
Are you ready?

Worried
Me too

Neighborhood
Supporting on the shoulder
In water sand
Fresh
A
Ch
R
Th

________
* Fernando’s Poem in Sri Lankan Poet Bays: July 1983, Unprecedented Event;
Shocking picture of a family burned to the ground! This extra poem was awakened in the translation.

* Palmirappana – Sugarcane

* Atheria- nilamulla

If you click here Read, best stories, best poems …

Last Updated Jun 9, 2022, 2:49 PM IST

Leave a Replay