nanna compoundinalli nAne beLasida thengu
nOdu nOduthidhante ettara beLadaddu gOthiddaroo
biru-bisilinallOmme manege baruvAgge
rasthegoo adu neraLa chelliddu arivAdaddu
A neraLalli nintha yAradO cAru kandagalE
are, endu ondu kshaNa aascharya-patte.
AlOchiside:
neraLu nanna maraddu, nillisabedayya cAru
andare tappe?
adara neraLalli ninthaddarinda A cAru
nannadendare thappe?
dhabhAisadare ava heege: beppe,
thengu ninnadirabahudu, Adare neraLu ninnada?
dina-beLagadare garigaLalli araLuva hakki ninnada?
adara kicha-picha, aleyuva have, hOLeyuva kiraNa,
thOguva chandra - ninnada?
idu sArvajanika rasthe - nillisalu,
alli chellida neraLO nannadennalu, hakkuntu.
allade, neraLa nepadinda vahana nilluthe,
hAgagi sancharakke adachaNe, kattarisu
marava-nendare ellide nannali javAbu?
kshaNa dhigilAgi
cAralli yaaroo illaddu KushiyAgi
neraLa nOdade
bari cArina-andava mechhutha sara-sara oLage nedada
-
K.S.Nissar Ahmed
This was one of the poems in Modern Kannada Poetry
a book brought out for Silver Juiblee Celebrations
of kannada adhyayana pIta, Karnatak University,
Dharwar.It has 72 Poems by best Kannada poets,
both in kannada & their tranlations in English.
(thanks to my friend Ganesh for providing this
book).
--
Sridhara Murthy T.R.