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| - Poet Kannathasan - |
Though you stand far away—
if only your eyes come alone…
Those eyes that arrive, they bring a gift…
A gift that gives a bliss untold…" — Poet Kannadasan
In such simple expressions, Kannadasan excelled at revealing the profound emotions of human love, steeped in experience.
The phrase “Unfinished Night” is a striking poetic image. In Tamil, the word “mūṟṟāt(a)” (unfinished/unripe) carries two senses:
Something that has not reached its end.
Something unripe, like an unripe fruit.
The night stretches on endlessly, lying incomplete, like a fruit that has yet to ripen. In this night, his feelings of love have neither resolution nor end. How beautifully Kannadasan, through the phrase “unfinished night”, reveals his tormented heart—his love that remains both unripe and incomplete. His unripe, unresolved feelings of love gnaw at him, just like the endless night.
- Composed and sung by AI SUNO. | Art ny AI -
This is the translation of my Tamil poem written in the eighties, later published in Thayagam (Canada) and in e-magazines Pathivukal and Thinnai. It is also included in my first anthology of poems published by Mangai Pathippagam.
Poem: Wake up, super human! By V.N.Giritharan
Concrete! Concrete! Concrete!
Walls! Radiating heat and burning with intensity,
The smooth, deceptive white surfaces.
Sidewalks of cement that wear a mocking grin.
Spaces lie entranced, embraced by fearless pillars.
In the filtration of air currents,
Flowing warm rays.
In the playful laughter of frost droplets,
The chill sweeps through,
Amid the sweetness of dreams about meadows,
Underneath the blue canvas,
Lie the sorrowful memories
Of the cold earth mother.
