சூரிய உதயம் -புங்குடுதீவு கவிஞர் சு.வில்வர் -ஆங்கிலம்
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"The wavesin a ritual,carry away all footprints.Look!within the teeth of the wavesmy footprints lose their mark.The more I tread on the sand,the more the capturing waves return,smooth away my footprintsand laugh through their foam.Gently they drawfine lines upon the sand.Sometimes comprehending, sometimes notI read the handwriting of the wavesall along the seashore.Innumerable civilisations, lost to the sea,are spread out like pagesin front of my eyes.The deep sea writes with a brushsteeped in the antiquitiesit has swallowed and digested:fine, curling threads of letters.Before I can read them clearly,the waves have moved on;destroying, re-writing, destroying, re-writing.Giving up my footprints,- as my sacrifice -I wait for a new languageon the spreading sands of the seashore.Unmoved by the net I spreadand my provoking words,the sea is silent,containing all it has digested.I walk on, swallowing the sealike Agastya, Tamil dwarf-sage.Within the sage's vessel holding holy watera small ripple begins -the River of Time, ready to draw a lineupon our earth, and leap forward."~ Su. Vilvaratnam, 1950-2006 ~Isle of Skye Set
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