දිගු ගමන

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ඇරඹුනි දිගු ගමනක්

මහ වැසි කම්කටොලූ මැද¦

තිබුනත් අරමුණක් ගමනාන්තයක්

මහගු"

ඈත ක්ෂිතිජයෙන් එහා

රුදුරු වනපෙත් මරු කතර

තරණය කර යා යුතු"

නොපෙනේ එය කිසිදු ඉමක

බැලූවක් දෑස් සිසාරා සැමත¦

වැසි අදුර නිසා නම් නොව ඒ"

වනවැදී ඇති බැවිනි ප‍්‍රඥාව

තනිකරමින්

රට කරk zදෙව් මිනිසුන්'Z

වසන්ත් කුන්ජ්, නව දිල්ලිය, 26 සැප්තැම්බර් 2012

Existence; Non-existence

It has escaped from my mind
What I was going to say,
What was in my mind;
I am un-moored from existence
And de-linked from memory;
I am here and I see,
But what I see has no reference,
No sense,
No pain,
No pleasure,
No smell.
I exist;
And I don’t.

Sasanka Perera
Vasnt Kunj, New Delhi, 15^th September 2012

නොපැතූ වැස්ස / Unexpected Rain

On 25th August 2012, heavy rains lashed New Delhi accompanied by thunder and lightening. Hindustan Times reported, "Delhi came to a standstill after heavy rain lashed the city, choking drains and leaving large sections of major arterial routes waterlogged. The maximum temperature dropped by three degrees Celsius to settle at 30.7 degrees Celsius, while the minimum was a degree below normal at 25.5 degrees Celsius. With the city having recorded 13.7 mm of average rainfall over the last 24 hours, --- Met department has predicted a generally cloudy sky with few spells of rain or thundershowers" (http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Coming-up-for-Delhi-cloudy-sky-rain/Article1-919422.aspx). If weather was in such a mood, what could lesser mortals stuck at home do other than let the mind wander as only it knows how to do, scribble a few lines, even minimally coherent, in an obscure language in this part of the world?

Image: Rain Drop; Dev N Pathak, 2012

කිමිද සිටියදී සිත
නිම් නැති සයුරේ සිතුවිලි,
මුවා කරමින් හිරු
පළවා හරිමින්
සියොත් රෑන්
ගගන තලයේ නොපෙනෙන අන්තයකට,
පතිත වුනි මහ වැසි
නොපැතූ නොසිතූ මොහොතක.

සිතුනි ඒ කඳුලැල්ද කියා
ඔබගේ
නොපෙනෙන මානයක සිට
ඉකි බිඳිනා,
නෑසුනත් යශෝරාවය,
විරහ ගීතිකා
අසුරා ඇති බැවින්
දෙසවන් මාගේ
සීරුවෙන් ගලා යන
නොනවතින කාලය,
ගිලගත්තත් කාළ වළාවෝ
කෙටි නිමේශයකට පෙර
දිදුලූ හිරු රැුස්,
සිරකරමින්
දිසි සදිසි ලොව
කාලය අනියත
අඳුරු මොහොතක.

වසන්ත් කුන්ජ්, නව දිල්ලිය, 25 අගෝස්තු 2012

Intrusion

Uncouth,
Irreverent ,
Uncivilized you;
Intruding
Into my thoughts,
Conscience,
Space,
Unannounced;
And remaining unmoved
For timeless times;
Memory and recollection,
Will you ever learn
Etiquette of civility?

Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 10 August 2012

Face in the Mist

In its embrace so complete,

The mist obliterated reality;

All signs of known existence,

Gone.

Yet,

The outline of a face

Once familiar

Was sensed,

In the midst

Of this rolling white

Nothingness.

Or,

Was it merely

A remnant of memories

From a past nearly forgotten

The mist

Could not obliterate?

 Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, 4^th July 2012

References

You want to erase me

From your conscience;

Banish me

From the vestiges of your mind;

My heart would be lighter

If I could do the same

With you.

But I am still there,

And you are still here

As we know quite well.

We will remain in our minds

As references to a past

Palatable and not so;

But we can be present

In each other’s conscience

As shadows,

As liminal moments,

As fleeting thoughts

With no reference to the present

Or the future.

Rather than memory

And its selective failings

Let history overtake us some day

And make us insignificant footnotes,

Not referred to by anyone.

On that day,

I would have left your mind,

And you mine.

Vasnt Kunj, New Delhi 29^th July 2012