Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
You handed flowers to me
priceless blooms
What can compare with them?
At dawn we stood on nectar-steps
bathed in sunrays
In front loomed the highway.
A carpet of grass around
with dew drops, glistening pearls.
A harvest of fruit and
a girdle of green woods.
Far away the birds lost their way in blue void.
You plucked some flowers
what flowers I can’t tell
You gave them to me
and they tuned in me
some mystique symphony,
flowers of velvet feel
in my closed palm
priceless blooms
a petal of love with flowers
fairer than the blooms,
what ravishing smell
what colours that defy
all the fancies I have
It sets a limit to love infinite.
The blooms smile in my hands
as it smiled before
you giggle and whisper words
while I fail to understand
neither can I hear
I only know
the flowers are priceless.
–Translated from Oriya by the Poet