Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Monday, May 11, 2020
Malayalam Poem & Its English Translation
കലാകാരൻ
നീ പാടുന്ന പാട്ടുകൾക്ക്
ഇമ്പമേറുന്നതെന്തേ?
അകലെകളിൽ നിന്ന് നിൻ പ്രണയത്തിൻ മാധുര്യം
ഈണമായ് ഒഴുകിയെത്തുമ്പോൾ
ശേഷിക്കുന്നത് വിരഹാoശം മാത്രം.
വിരഹം നിന്നെ കലാകാരനാക്കി.
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Artist
Why is your
song the sweetest?
As your
love’s nectar flows melodiously from afar
What reaches
hither and remains
is your
wistful yearning.
Alienation
made you an artist.
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©Suma
K Gopal
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Unconditional Confidence
It is a long time since I wrote on this space, though I was regular in writing poems.
Somehow I felt, nothing was worth writing on this space. I, in a way, trivialized all those thoughts…
But now, I thought I should not, any more.
This morning, I was listening to Pema Chodron.
After sometime, I had a strange feeling that it was I who was talking. Like, listening to myself…!
I just could not believe that someone else was talking. She thought exactly like me… spoke like me…. And, after sometime, I realized, that I was at home, and no one was there to listen to me. I am not sure if I actually spoke, whatever she spoke. What weird trance…!
Pema is someone who I can so relate to, when she talks.
It was Daniel Ryan, my coach at Cypress Semiconductor, who introduced me to Pema. I had these set of audios that Danny sent me, for several days and I did not bother to listen to them. And, when I finally did, I knew what I was missing!
So deep, insightful, brave talk.
I began hunting for her audios, videos, articles, on the internet, and I was not disappointed.
Usually, I would say all these things to myself, and never bother to turn them into a blog entry, but as I said before, today, is a different day. I began feeling different. My actions are different. I have no answer. It’s okay. I love being so.
This space is for me, to record these unique days.
These entries are like beautifully entwined beads that stay together though distinctively different.
Pema’s words echo still; she says, Confidence is a synonym of gentleness… the root of confidence is gentleness. And she calls it Tenderhearted Bravery!
Yes, it is with this ‘unconditional confidence’, this ‘shaky tenderness’ that I began today.
Somehow I felt, nothing was worth writing on this space. I, in a way, trivialized all those thoughts…
But now, I thought I should not, any more.
After sometime, I had a strange feeling that it was I who was talking. Like, listening to myself…!
I just could not believe that someone else was talking. She thought exactly like me… spoke like me…. And, after sometime, I realized, that I was at home, and no one was there to listen to me. I am not sure if I actually spoke, whatever she spoke. What weird trance…!
Pema is someone who I can so relate to, when she talks.
It was Daniel Ryan, my coach at Cypress Semiconductor, who introduced me to Pema. I had these set of audios that Danny sent me, for several days and I did not bother to listen to them. And, when I finally did, I knew what I was missing!
So deep, insightful, brave talk.
I began hunting for her audios, videos, articles, on the internet, and I was not disappointed.
Usually, I would say all these things to myself, and never bother to turn them into a blog entry, but as I said before, today, is a different day. I began feeling different. My actions are different. I have no answer. It’s okay. I love being so.
This space is for me, to record these unique days.
These entries are like beautifully entwined beads that stay together though distinctively different.
Pema’s words echo still; she says, Confidence is a synonym of gentleness… the root of confidence is gentleness. And she calls it Tenderhearted Bravery!
Yes, it is with this ‘unconditional confidence’, this ‘shaky tenderness’ that I began today.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
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