A poem by DEEBACHELVAN
Translation of the poem in Tamil titled
Translation of the poem in Tamil titled
“NIRUVAANAMAAGA KOLAIUNDAVARGALIN PINPAKKAM
Translated into English by latha ramakrishnan
Translated into English by latha ramakrishnan
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In the stagnated water,
writhing in pain
and floating _
the eyes, hands and rear of the necks.
Nudity disrobes everyone.
Terrorizing to the core
the scheming riffle
pierces a hole at the backside of the neck.
The soil gets all drenched
in the sadly flowing blood.
No one’s face is visible.
In the stagnated water,
writhing in pain
and floating _
the eyes, hands and rear of the necks.
Nudity disrobes everyone.
Terrorizing to the core
the scheming riffle
pierces a hole at the backside of the neck.
The soil gets all drenched
in the sadly flowing blood.
No one’s face is visible.
From out of everyone
everywhere blood is overflowing.
In the buses-
in the streets and by-lanes
of the interior city
in everyone’s home
the blood floods out of the
Television set and spreads to
Every nook and corner.
The mothers who have been searching
for their off-springs
start seeking the Channels.
The butchers of the meat-shops
resemble those men-in-uniform.
In the noose, the faces of those men
get tightly entwined-
never to be let loose.
Blood keeps pouring
drenching the entire world.
The faces couldn’t be seen.
As like my children
and your sons and daughters
and of these, theirs and
those
They looked- alas.
On the faces of Mothers
the blood-suck sand-pieces
keep falling all over.
The Mothers whose children have disappeared
just like that
have all wailed and beaten their chests
seeing the backsides of those butchered,
taking them to be
their very own off-springs.
With the heads falling down
in the pool of blood,
the Deaths of those children
whose whereabouts are unknown,
keep multiplying.
The uniforms of those murderers
are filled with the
blood-oozing throats and necks.
Except that they are humans
Everything else is in the dark.
At the backside of one and all heads
blood floods.
In that region
the blood that streamed out of
the Dream that was
smashed and shattered
remain, frozen.
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*On 28.02.2009 the CHANNEL 4 ha released the video-clippings of gory killings of Tamil youths, stark-naked and blind-folded with their hands chained at the back, shown from the rear-side. The gruesome assassinations were recorded in a small mobile-camera and were taken in January 2009, claims CHANNEL 4
everywhere blood is overflowing.
In the buses-
in the streets and by-lanes
of the interior city
in everyone’s home
the blood floods out of the
Television set and spreads to
Every nook and corner.
The mothers who have been searching
for their off-springs
start seeking the Channels.
The butchers of the meat-shops
resemble those men-in-uniform.
In the noose, the faces of those men
get tightly entwined-
never to be let loose.
Blood keeps pouring
drenching the entire world.
The faces couldn’t be seen.
As like my children
and your sons and daughters
and of these, theirs and
those
They looked- alas.
On the faces of Mothers
the blood-suck sand-pieces
keep falling all over.
The Mothers whose children have disappeared
just like that
have all wailed and beaten their chests
seeing the backsides of those butchered,
taking them to be
their very own off-springs.
With the heads falling down
in the pool of blood,
the Deaths of those children
whose whereabouts are unknown,
keep multiplying.
The uniforms of those murderers
are filled with the
blood-oozing throats and necks.
Except that they are humans
Everything else is in the dark.
At the backside of one and all heads
blood floods.
In that region
the blood that streamed out of
the Dream that was
smashed and shattered
remain, frozen.
-------------------------------------------------
*On 28.02.2009 the CHANNEL 4 ha released the video-clippings of gory killings of Tamil youths, stark-naked and blind-folded with their hands chained at the back, shown from the rear-side. The gruesome assassinations were recorded in a small mobile-camera and were taken in January 2009, claims CHANNEL 4
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