Valliyur
Providential wish!
Daughters of Thirumal, to the eye-born sisters
Amirthavalli and Sundaravalli
Preached Lord Muruga Shatakshara mantra
Offered in return the sisters gratefully
Both themselves to marry Muruga
But ordered them Muruga to be born anew
Then to conjoin Him
Deivanai and Valli hence their incarnate next
Providential command!
Demon Padmasura to be slain
Amid the oceanic silence of Tiruchendur
Prior slain brother Taraka the hill-demon Krauncha
Gifted, much cheered Devendra
Daughter Deivanai to valorous Muruga
Seated the couple encaved at Tiruparankundram
Tri-pieced Taraka, slain head hurled off
Mahendragiri hill defending it
Taraka's head transformed into a rock- cave
Providential wish!
Vallimalai bore Vishnu on penance
Deer-guised Lakshmi consorted Him to bear Valli
New-born Valli later found abandoned
'Vallikizhangu' burrow supporting the babe
Found and fostered the hill-king Nambi Valli
Sneaked out to Muruga everything sage Narada
Valli now grown beautifully
In proposal disguised Muruga
Played all tricks and gimmicks
Unaware of the divine being
Tender Valli hid herself in 'valliguhai', Tiruchendur
However helped Vinayaka His brother
And matched Valli with Muruga at Tiruthani
Desired Valli to settle in the rock-cave
Demon-Krauncha where concaved
Consented Muruga to Valli's wish
Spear-struck 'saravanapoikai'
The spring for Valli to relish
Enlightenment the divine proximity did pave
Thereon named as Poornagiri the rock-cave
Valliyur thence the name after Valli
She dwelt with Muruga gleefully
Bliss of love in predominance
Exempted can not be even the providence
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Kaumaram-5
Tiruttani-fifth of six special
abodes of Lord Muruga
Ichcha be desire and caprice and nomad
Who else than Thee can conquer 'Ichcha'
Ichcha be masqueraded as Valli
Masqueraded hunter Thee to espouse then
On valorous peace seated, a mystic myth
Tiruttani that allayed Thine heart causally
In pacific confinement blissful Thee
Sage Agastya to master birthed 'Tamil'
An ambrosial spread around the earth
Ah, Thanikachala, inebriated so many versifiers
Sing and praise and extole 'Arohara, Arohara'
Kudos, kudos...so too we 'Vel, Vel, Vetrivel'
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Jazz was my first love.
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You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
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I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
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Kandhar Anuboothi
Aadum pari Vel ani cheval yenap,
Padum paniye paniyay arulvay,
Thedum kayamaa muganai cheruvil,
Chadum thani yanai sodharane.
Oh Loard Muruga,
The brother of Vinayaga,
who is having an elephant face,
destroyed asuras in great wars.
You are dancing in beauty, with spear,
peacock and with the flag of
cock.bless me so that i have a single duty in life - to sing of Thy fame
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Oh Lord Muruga
Brother of the elephant faced One (Vinayaka)
The destroyer of the asuras in the epic wars
Who dances with such splendour
Whose symbol is the spear and whose flag is that of the rooster
Bless me, oh Lord. so that my singular duty in life is that of singing Thy fame
Translated by shivayadav.
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Kaumaram-6
Pazhamudircholai-Sixth of six special
abodes of Lord Muruga
Secrecy is Thine rejoicement
In dense wooded secret tranquil green
Thine spear in valourous placidity aghast
While Thee in clever design aloof
Consorted left and right tranced in NoopuraGanga
Settled sentinels..uncle Perumaal and amman Rakkayi
Wish Thine be albeit undisturbed
Thou herd in eventful memoir to disturb
Avvaiyar whereat bestowed with Jumblem fruits
O'Muruga ripened wisdom how Thee blessed
Wonder, how Solaimalai in lofty verses fertile
Booming now 'Vel Vel Vetri Vel'..privacy Thine shattered
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Kaumaram
Handsome an ism of an ism
Outsparkled Shanmukham of Shiva's ism
Wary Spear of Shakti's ism
Heroism of slaying demonism
Supreme Knowledge of GnanaSkandam
Subhramanya of sprawling macrocosm
Awesome His charismatic blossom
On earth august His truism
Related isms relative to His Theism
Valli-Deivanai-ataraxia delightsome
Rooster-peacock-amity winsome
Reigning Kumara of sacred Kaumaram
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And So It Goes
Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton, Yaya Alafia, Frankie Valli, Sterling Jerins, Paloma Guzman
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I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
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Alankar(Decor) -26
It's Thou Pride (Rondine)
(Based on a mango-contest between
the Lords Ganesh and Muruga
as per hindu mythology)
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'It's thou pride, gyre gyre o'lord
Winning the game no easy
Going around worlds too queasy
Yet flinch not, gyre gyre o'lord
There thy peacock, get on board
Finish the rounds so easy
It's thou pride'
Much unthought but Ganesh scored
His parents His world, rounds easy
Lost Muruga got preachings uneasy
Shiva said'Ganesh, You the first Lord
It's thou pride'
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Monstrous Fortnight
On the day of Deepavali
Misty and pleasant was Udumalpet
Perhaps for the guests from Nellai
A city of only high or low heat
Getting back after happy celebration
No rains blessed us on our way
Crossed Palani a place for devotion
O'Muruga, give us rains I did pray
Nearing the 'Welcome' of our junction
Showers greeted us anyway
Thereupon beyond my expectation
Rained, rained and rained to make a boat-way
Boat-way by all means quaffed whole Tamil lustre
Ferocious the flood ate every home
Hid the deads like an ogre
So much stronger my prayer overdoing the loam?
Water-logged everywhere for a fortnight
Wreaking the wreck of transport busses
Gulping passangers, a miserable sight
A valiant demon of scary virtues
Tamil-Nadu a beautiful piece of earth
Now rain-ravaged and devastated
In our long time an unmet wrath
Slapping us to be woe composed
Relief and rescue machinery is high
The demon's lust, the damage remains
May the sacrificed souls in peace lie
I'm too angry with the Lord on Palani hills
So much havoc, so much disaster
O'Muruga is this fair?
Never to meet a monster
Do our hearts desire
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Kaumaram-2
Thiruchendur-
second of the six special
abodes of Lord Murugan
His wonderment ocean-king hurrays
Lapping Thine each victorious grain
Commendably circumambulating celestials
In Thine ambient prcincts lauding
O' Thou valour on demon-slaughter
Exult Thine herd 'Vel, vel, vetri vel'
In nectarean Naazhikinaru in silence
Thine abluted wary paroxysm solaced
Penancing on pithy PanchaLingas
Pleading Thee for incaved Valli
Blessed Brihaspathi portending omen
Beatified Panneer tree broadcasting kudos
Panneer tree-Indian Lavender(Guettarda speciosa Linn.)
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Indian gods
Kali solves immediate wants,
Muruga solves long felt wants,
Krishna, the perpetual wants,
And Siva, the eternal wants.
Kali is police more in awe.
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Monsoon
Father sun isn't rude anymore
For he is in his transition chore more
Aippasi is all set at Libra's door
Farther monsoon is nearer to pour
Heigh ho sing, 'clouds are scudding forth'
Sultry souls are out to graze
In the field of showery grace
Aippasi embarks on with revenent mirth
Sunbaked earth is in quenching race
Monsoon is merry with magnified girth
Interim events illumine monsoon
Celebrated celestials marry soon
Sin-hewn demons defeated to maroon
Ravana, Narakasura slain to a festive boon
Heigh ho sing merrily 'merry merry Deepavali'
May the ignorant heart doesn't croon
But let the lit up soul tune
Monsoon thence on cloud nine rapturously
Monsoon is heaven of bliss-immune
Say so, a harp of pattering music lifely
Monsoon is dexterously good
Yet sometimes opens its monstrous hood
Thamiraparani expels Kurukkuthurai Lord
Even so spears Tharaka, Padmasura the Lord
Heigh ho sing, 'vel vel vetrivel vetrivel'
Marries happily Valli the victorious Lord
Enlights the house of earth monsoon savvied
Abashed monsoon assures to shrivel
Leaving its imprint in wintry cold
Say so 'may His fulgency our pride too quell
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A Visit To Thiruchendur
Niceties of November rains
In a lordly remote touch
Brought in guests
Who took me on a state-highway
That was anew greenish afresh
Paddy-sided right and left
In big puddles but tanked
That the grey sky puffed bulky
Very willingly was duplicating itself
To which betwixt sunshine peering
In a play of hide and seek
Upsetting the watchful Ayyanar
All which His evidential horse
In silent neigh signalled, reported
That other village-deities spared
In secret enjoyment but in open escorting
In divine drizzles then and there
And new, new visiting birds
In total rejoicing coo-cooing colourful
On rhapsodic trees swaying in dancing plies
While the rainy breeze rollickingly caressing me
I lost myself in a different world...
But approaching sea-roaring
Brought me back diligent
To step into the Lord's abode
Ramping up and down, up and down
Through the cramming swampy crowd
Unto Lord Muruga's feet
Which beat back once the conceited tsunami,
Like the defeated three demons aeons back
Alike even this soul be conquered
I held the Lord's feet tight in full surrender
But as Matter mattered much I left my soul there
Just to return with this stale body
And started spinning around the precincts
With my heart and mind once, twice, thrice
In restarts of abrupt slokha-recitation
And when my soulless feet got fatigued
Transcient me on sudden realisation..
Where are the accompanied guests...?
And almost on a fall I sat O'Muruga...
Just to hear prompt that moment
From the godly tower an utterance
From a beautiful peacock in unfurled dancing
An unsyllabled cry but voicing special
'Searching the Truth...? '
To which unanswered my heart pondering on still
Though I joined the guests on return journey
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A Flower To Auroville Mother-2
Madurai Malligai( Jasminum sambac, Gundu Malli)
Rubied of the twilights the loam
Redolent of the Malligai grown
Circumambulating aroma aromatizing the zone
City of Meenakshi for Malligai well known
Charmed of pleasance, Malligai's elegance
Even superjacent Muruga raving with diligence
Queen of night as wafting with fragrance
Scene of love to the moon in florescence
Manured of a godly land rich
Made of pentapetaled Malligai much
Trading of the blossoms even abroad reach
Malligai's puissance divine as Meenakshi such
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A visit To Batu Caves
Hitherto visits to the six abodes
And all else seemed not sufficient
Dusty heart started sneezing sick
Signaled for His brand of cleanser
As earlier trip so to Batu failed
Undone heart vowed now a visit
Fourhundred million years' strength
However could support me climb well
Those twohundred and seventytwo steps
Began saluting Him from His Holy feet
Chandan-gold He stood there handsome
Much kind ready to adore me heartily
Mindless to leave from His pleasance
Halted my heart and soul timeless
But soon heard 'hurry up, hurry up'
More handsome my husband from that end
Readily He kicked me to reach him fast
To fall unto His feet therein we both
Lord was His usual look proven godly
In His usual den of that unusual cave
He creates, He protects, my mind inferred
At the sight of His expanse all around
Those patterned Stalactites, stalagmites
A charm ineffable uttering 'we are His'
A silent subdued beauty I got imbued with
My usual secret link with Him in solitude
A pristine breath melodizing innerly new
Life of whole yuga seemed salved heavenly
Temple crowd has never disturbed me at all
But those monkeys..! ending us from moving
Intruded on our way.We couldn't, we stopped
Valli, Devasena albeit waiting still up high
Those steps steep and high up and up man's
But His are many more in furtherance unseen
Down the hill waiting high and handsome He
Stroked in hush 'I decide your time blest'
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Bakula
O'Bakula, Bakula
Tell me
Your secrecy why sri Krishna
His Bansuri played under your canopy
Whilst you shedding your drizzles
Gathered the cows in gentle breeze
Tell me
St.Sambandar why under your shade
To marry assured Sangili Nachiar
Whilst you murmuring in gentle sway
Played concealed Shiva in your shadiness
Tell me
Temple lords all choose why you
In tranquility seated by your side
Tri-faceted turned why even Lord Muruga
At Elangi in your courtship importunate
Tell me
Your medicament exercised why to luxuriate
Usage of barks, flowers, fruits all yours why
Prized ethereal your gardenia why
Blossoms yours laced into laurels why
O'Bakula, Bakula
Look, handful mine your aromatic blossoms
To open up here truth of your heavenliness
Sunny-tiny, their celestiality wafting fragrance
Speaketh of trees five of providence
'Sandhanam, Mandharam, Karpagam, Parijatham
With Devatharu their evil fate suffered
Be out of demonism sought they to Shiva
Blessed then into one Bakula tree all five
Up His words seated at Thiruvotriyur
Shiva in shadiness beneath the Bakula tree'
O'Bakula, Bakula
Firmament so is your mother factual
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Kaumaram-4
Swamimalai-fourth of the six special
abodes of Lord Muruga
Be so the cause for Brahma's imprisonment
Nescient be Rishi Brigu's angst
Nescient even Thine father be
So angst Thine on nescience be
Cause be so for Thine preaching
So, so high up the sixty stairs crowned
O'Swaminatha, well, fair in aloof dignity
In sylvan pride upping more on an elephant
Fatherly to Thine father, a Guru Thyself be
In dazzling dangling decibels of 'Pranava'
Bow like bowing father Thine adown to hearken
Won't Thee to the flighting crescendo 'Vel Vel Vetrivel'
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A Flower To Auroville Mother-13
Vetchi, Idli poo(Ixora coccinea)
It's their paradise I find all and well
Multi-coloured and sized dwarf and tall
Sponging pally in a gentle breezy dwell
Palming multi-fingered 'come, come'say all
It's their decor I see all over and abode
Mindless to picking mindful to hugging I adore
It's their decorum of guarding of a healthy mode
I feel a glow in a swish all over and more
Faced palm crowned in a heart of colours
Sundries she and she and she and so on
Bunchy, bushy in clustered merry gregarious
Adorn 'Vetchi' morn and Muruga, a triumphant dawn
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