An exercise in translation: Loving Loneliness by Poet Pazhani bharathi

Loving Loneliness – a poem by  pazshani bharathi

In the current issue of KUmdham   Life  dt  26-10-2016.

It’s a pleasant feeling to love loneliness

As there is no one new there

Beloved people are close by your side.

In the empty cup in front of us

We shall take our smiles as fog /mist porridge

And drink it( abundantly)

We shall drink  the tears like a

Bitter alchohal

Like the outer mirror of loneliness.

we shall see our face staring it.

We shall float our  heart

As a bubble/a ripple on water.

When that is  sparkling on us

We may be there or cease to exist.

It is a pleasant sensation

To love loneliness.

Translated by prof d Sambandhan of

Pondicherry centrl university.An