The Tree and the grass

Every day the tree grew
I work hard, suck water
While others are sleeping
I stay awake and survive

The grass is lazy and careless
When I am working it sleeps
It doesn't know how to succour
It can't use opportunities

It is not smart like me
It doesn't bring out flowers
A little bit of rain and wind
It loses its confidence

I am straight and tall
Sophisticated and smart
I am born to rule the world
The grass is meant to bend

This happened long long ago
So long ago, so long ago
Before the storm brought
The mighty tree down

The poor grass lived on
It had no intellect to analyse
It did not know it did win
It just existed as its destiny

Theories of right and wrong
Superior and inferior
Ideas did not affect the grass
It lived on till its end.

The tree also lived again
Fresh leaves began sprouting
From the bottom that remained
It started working hard again

The mighty and the little
Lived on, succeeded and failed.

The sun

The sun twisted his/her eyebrows

We can say even it twisted eyebrows

It all depends on how you view

The man sun and woman sun

And the 'it' sun twisted eyebrows

They met on the forehead.

The matter is simple and straight

The sun was angry and brilliant

The sun looked like fire burning

Man, woman, it remembered 

The fire saved them from danger

The sun became a God, why not?

The colour of sun became superior

Gold became the mirror of sun

The metal became superior

Polished brass stole the show

The lamps were made in brass

Some lamps were in gold too

Sometimes sun looked silver

Silver, polished bright was great

Silver was surely superior, holy

The chosen colour and shade

Placed in high places constantly

Reminding people of light

Light has written our fate

Light has taught us to think

Light has trained our minds

Behind light is the fear of night

Night reminded of insects

Night meant uncertainty

Darkness to light became

Knowledge and wisdom

தெரியும் என நினைத்தேன்

தெரியும் என நினைத்தேன்

எனக்கே என்னைத் தெரியுமென  

தனக்கேயுரிய பாணியில்

தன்னம்பிக்கையோடு நினைத்தேன்


தண்ணீர் போல சலசலத்தது

தானாய்த் தோன்றிய நான்

குமிழ் குமிழாய் ஒளிர்ந்தது

சூரியனை வாங்கியது


டக்கென்று மறைந்தது

என்னைத்தொலைத்தேன்

சுழியில் அடங்கினேன்

இன்னும் தேடிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறேன்


சு . ஸ்ரீ  தே வி

Creations

Creations  come to stay

They transform, influence

Live on as stones past

Turning them around

Might disturb balance

Unnatural stuff dies

Not adapting to times

Child labour

The backs ached

The shoulders swollen


Six big revision notes

Six big classwork notes

Two big homework notes

Six big test notes

Two big handwriting notes

Six text books big

Loads of assignments

Charts, activities

Files, sketch pens

Boxes, lunch, water.


Twenty five kilos at least

To be carried to and fro.


Study and study

To earn money later.

Democracy for elders

Autocracy for children.


Sitting for fourteen years

Health goes away running

Searching for hospitals

No time to play, to dance.

Children  become old ones

Worrying even in innocence.


Schools need play grounds

Apart from black boards.