Sitting under Banyan, viewing East
Masculine, 'He' is.
Lights ON and OFF. White in colour.
Lights ON and OFF. Black in colour.
Wobble, even in 'Him'.
Then, why not, We.
Pure Bright, Pure Dark
Twelve fortnights each,
evinces, dithering,
impure red-blooded society.
Sitting inside safely, viewing West
Unmasculine,'He' is.
No change, connotes static
effeminate society.
Virile in West, Effete in East
insinuates,
both are even-handed to 'Him'.
Masculine, 'He' is.
Lights ON and OFF. White in colour.
Lights ON and OFF. Black in colour.
Wobble, even in 'Him'.
Then, why not, We.
Pure Bright, Pure Dark
Twelve fortnights each,
evinces, dithering,
impure red-blooded society.
Sitting inside safely, viewing West
Unmasculine,'He' is.
No change, connotes static
effeminate society.
Virile in West, Effete in East
insinuates,
both are even-handed to 'Him'.
Paraphrase of the Poem
In Kanyakumari District there is a place called Keralapuram(on the way to Trivandram). One famous Eswaran temple is there at the entrance of that village. In that temple a Vigneshwara statue which changes its colour naturally(6 months Black & 6 months White). But in Suchindram( on the way to Kanyakumari) God Vigneshwaran is carved like goddess & the ancestors named it as Vigneshwari). Here in my poem I have compared both Vgneshwaran & Vigneshwari with this society).
12-04-2002 ; 09:10 pm - 10:30 pm
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