ITHAKA 649 THE ISLE OF LIFE
There is an Isle of Life
I will take you there
It has never known iron bars
Come with me to the Isle of Life.
There is no government there
The seas rule and the ocean winds
Seasons change at the word of poets
Come with me to the Isle of Life.
Gabriel Rosenstock, Ireland
TRANSLATION
TAMIL
Dr. N V Subbaraman, Chennai, India, 9840477552
வாழ்க்கைத்தீவு
ஒரு வாழ்க்கைத்தீவு இருக்கிறது
அங்கே உங்களை அழைத்துச் செல்வேன்
இரும்புக் கோல்களை என்றுமே அறியாதது
வாழ்க்கைத் தீவிற்கு என்னுடன் வாருங்கள்!
அங்கே அரசாங்கம் கிடையாது
கடல்கள் அரசாளுகின்றன, சமுத்திரம் காற்றைத்தருகின்றது
கவிஞர்கள் சொற்கள் கேட்டு காலங்கள் மாறுகின்றன
என்னுடன் வாருங்கள் வாழ்க்கைத் தீவிற்கு!
ஐரிஷ் மொழியில் ஆக்கம்
கேப்ரியல் ரோஸென் ஸ்டாக், அயர்லாந்து.
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Good morning.
My friend GERMAIN says: “Today is my birthday but what can I do better than make people happy with poetry because: Poetry is my message…
The new poem is from our latest Ithaca member, translating into Irish. He is an internationally well-known poet and translated and published in Ireland my poetry book “In the Stream of Time, Meditations in the Himalayas”.
He dedicated the poem to an Indian poet who apparently – your age – is imprisoned and has corona virus.
Best regards
Germain
Second post of the day wishing GERMAIN very many happy returns of the day it is ” 649- THE ISLE OF LIFE! ” is in Envius Thoughts in https://nvsr.wordpress.com/ for your kind read and response. Thanks.
Prompted by the weekly prompt of Blogging Meet here is prompted poem:
RAINY DAYS have made grand arrival! Yes the great gift of Nature alias God!
PAINY DAYS are these to many-going to schools and offices and outside home
With umbrellas failing to protect from rains heavy, Rain coat
Out of its place from the cupboard helps walking or driving two wheelers!
Getting cold and fever as a result of getting drenched in rain-a pain!
Even after the RAIN stops, drizzles continue through TREE LEAVES and branches!
RAIN essential for the world as the Saint Poet of Tamilnadu says in his Magnum Opus THIRUKKURAL written years two thousand and three hundred ago!:
Chapter Two
GLORY OF RAIN
11.
On rain, rests the world
Sure for its prosperity
Treat rain –nectar bold! (11)
12.
It helps grow great food
Sans water no agriculture
Quenches thirsty world! (12)
13.
Water all in sea
Helps not life on earth so well
Rain water gives glee! (13)
14.
Rain sustains the world
Makes the fertile land yield more
Sans farmers can’t mould! (14)
15.
By absence, rain destroys
Life, living, people and the world
By care it creates! (15)
16.
If rain fails to grace
The earth with its compassion
No grass you can trace! (16)
17.
Ocean becomes dry
When the sky bears not the clouds
People made to cry! (17)
18.
Rain – gift of nature
Whenever denied to the world
Bleak – nobles’ future! (18)
19.
When powerful rain fails
Noble charity gets failed
Nobles’ penance falls! (19)
20.
Sans water no life
When the Lord of Rain conspires
Virtue faces knife! (20)