Saturday, May 31, 2014

Listen and Thou Shall Hear



I see the clear blue skies
The birds in the blue
The dew on the flowers
And flowers in bloom

The white crane flock
In a V-shaped crew
Glide to the field
In low altitude

The rain after a while
Changes the mood
Of the dusty brown earth
Of us dwellers too

The huge green trees
By the sidewalk stand
While capitalism
Shakes our hand

How the simple day break
With hopes generate
Yet another new hope
From yesterday’s grey

The little humming bird
By the office window sill
Raps on the dark glass
With its large curved beak

How the wag of a tail
Or the mew of a cat
And a pat on each head
Takes the mule off the pack

Thank God at least some
Of Nature’s still free
Innocently they speak
In their vibes- carefree

Monday, February 24, 2014

A mother’s lament

When you chose to give your love
To that man on mobile phone
Did you ever thinkg
He would love you more than I?

I chose to go for work
To give you a better life
An erroneous decision
The cost today- your life

What is my life today
That remembers in every way
How your lifeless body hung
From the bare roof on that day?

I cannot breathe today
Knowing you left your breath the day
He loved not you, but just your face
On this media of such disgrace

My mind and body is immune
Now to all what happens around
For my life’s motive is stung
Made weak by such venom

Of how I failed as your mother
By not giving you the love
Not being there to talk
When that is all you wanted

Hear me, those of you in power
Make heed to stop this disaster
Of facebook and mobile phones
That destroy life so precious

If only I had stayed
At home and given you the love
I still would have your smile, your voice
My sun, the moon in our house

(These lines are dedicated to the grief of a mother, who grieved wildly at the loss of her young daughter of 20, who hanged herself in their house as a result of a love affair on facebook in February 2014)

Friday, January 10, 2014

රුසිරු

අඩි 5යි අඟල් 6යි, සිහින් සිරුර, රන් වරල හෝ
සාමාන්‍ය උසැති,රන්වන් සිරුර, දිගු වරල ලද්දී.
අඩි 5යි අඟල් 8ට වඩා උසැති
ශක්තිමත් දේහයෙන් හෙබි පිරිමිකම.
වෙනත් විභේද නැත්ද?
ඇඟිලි 9ක් හෝ 11කින් හෙබි
අඩි 4යි අඟල් 3ක් උසැති, අන්ධ,
ආබාධිත, කොර, ගොලු,
මන්ද මානසික ඔහු හෝ ඇය?

මොවුන්ගේ ඇති රුව දකින්නට
වෙහෙස දරනා අයවලුන් වෙද?
ඉවත දමනා හිස් බඳුන් ලෙස
ඔවුනගේ රුව විසික් කර ඇති
පිරිමි ඇස උන් මතක නැති කර
ඉවතලන්නට නොහැකි දෑ ලෙස
මෙලොව හංවඩු ගසා ඇති කල

රුසිරු යන්නෙහි අරුත කිමවෙද?

කතුවරියගේ I Picture the Mosaic ඉංග්‍රීසි කාව්‍ය සංග්‍රහයේ “Beauty” නම් කවි පන්තියේ පරිවර්තනයකි