Song 59

A self-criticism on my poems.  But there is a theme in this poem that what I babble as poems is not really poetry.

59 கவி ஆமோ

எழுதவேண்டும் என்பதற்காக

எழுத்துக்களை வார்த்தைகளாக்கி

கருத்தேதும் அதில் இல்லாமல்

கவிதை என்ற பெயராலே

உளறுவதும் கவி ஆமோ

பேதை என் வார்த்தைகளே

Lucknow, January 1996.

59 Can you call them poems?

Just for the sake of writing something

By joining letters as words

Without having any meaning in it

In the name of poetry

What you babble as poems

Can they be called real poetry?

Lucknow, January 1996,