Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Get addicted...

It's about a month, since I started writing poems in tamil and it's about 20 days, since I started posting them in my blog. Even though people around me keeps bullying, I consider myself as a budding poet. The nice part of being a poet is that you always need to dream something. If you dream on 10 things you will get at-least nine poems. The hardest part is to write things that you dream in a way that it won't offend anybody. If you do that, eight off nine will get discarded. The remaining one will get a place in my blog.

People say that getting words is the difficult part in writing poem. I would say, convincing critics is the most difficult part. Most of the time it will be countering critics. Critics play an important part in any work. Some help you streamline your thoughts and some helps you to think in an entirely new angle. Criticizing is an art. Believe it or not, everybody can't criticize on something. Every work look perfect for my eyes. Famous poets never cared about critics. Ya, they need not. They had seen enough till the time they become famous. Most people become famous after their death or they would be in their last few pages of life. Most of the time I feel that, these people are correct in some sense. Only way to deal with critics is to ignore them.

In my school days, I wonder how these poems are getting evaluated. what determines the its quality? The answer lies in its beauty. The beauty of poem doesn't lie in its meaning. It lies in its depth. Again, depth is often getting confused with the deepness in meaning or the detailed explanation of complex logic. That is not deep. If you read a good poem, you will feel it. It may not be complex. It may not have a rhythm in it. It may not have complex well chosen words. You might be seeing it every day. But you feel it only when you read it. After you read it, you will be feeling like seeing the whole world from the top of a hill. You know, no camera in the world can freeze it. No word in any language can explain it. You feel like surrendering to it. Asking permission to stay there for ever. Most of the time you will not get permission, because nobody is there to grant permissions. I get to read some of the most beautiful poems by Pablo Neruda (Thanks to Velu, One of the guys how has the gift of criticizing). Now I could realize, what kind of work I was doing. Still I will call my self as a budding poet :).

Many people complained that they could not understand poems. As a part of bullying, many people advised to post explanations (Koonar Urai) along with the poem. I would say writing explanation to any poem is the worst thing it can get. It is not a definition, not an experiment, not a computer program to ask for comments. It is the feel. It is like enjoying the music, like tasting the tastiest dish, like seeing the most beautiful girl. You should enjoy it. Nobody can teach you to enjoy something, it should come from within you. If you can't get something on the first shot, don't worry. It's like a baby crying on mother's first touch. You will get addicted to it soon :)

10 comments:

  1. :) coincidental/whatever.. check this out.. http://nesamithran.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_20.html

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  2. Engalukellam 'kavithai' elutha varathuOctober 26, 2009 at 12:48 AM

    @senthil kumar
    Intha blog background ayum sevappu , neelam , karuppu intha mathiri oru colourla mathi sidela pidal castro padam onnu pottudalaam -enna solra?
    Suruttu viyabaramaavathu soodu pudikkum.

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  3. @Engalukellam 'kavithai' elutha varathu

    Anna, unn sinthanaie sinthanai da.. enna thaan irunthalum pidal castro'vium, surutu viyabarathaiium link pannine pathia. nee ange thaan nikkure. I think inimel, nee intha mathiri punai peir ellam vechu elutha thevai illai. ellarukkum thrinjirukkum, intha mathiri sinthani yarukku varumnu.... :)

    innoru matter, ithukku reply pannarenu sollittu "I think illaiga, I karuvadu" nu adiche, ticket eduthu vanthu adippen...

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  4. maams.. rendu perum onnu miss paniteenga.. athu fidel castro ila.. che guevera.. :P ungaluku theriyama irunthurukathu.. :P also ithukum rendu perum senthu kummitruntheengana comedy..

    athu sari avaru photo va vachu enna panrathu, namma enna guerilla va illa communist ah.. venum na keezha "ads by google" nu potukalam.. athukum namakum sampantham illa nu solika.. :P

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  5. we are not CHE GUEVERAOctober 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM

    @Senthil Kumar aka Kilu
    Antha 'idukai'la (athu enna karumam da athu idukai - olakkai kelvipatturukken athu enna idukai ) che irunthaa intha blog post la avaru 'thozhar' pidal iruntha oru kutha irukumeennu thaan sonnom...I object this very act of concidering us as ignorant idiots. I also seriously condemn your racist act of correcting our Tamil pronunciation of 'pidal' as 'fidel'.
    Also when we say 'Che found a hardcore communist in-fidel'.It sounds as if Osama was saying that.
    Stay with the Tamil pronounciation it sounds like 'ghee rice' as one of your kavithai-mate claims.

    I would also like to know if che guera has ever pronounced himself as a 'communist'. Ellorum che guevera na odane communist appadeenreengale athaan... He was guerilla..He fought against US.. He fought 'with' the communists...He killed 'with' the communists.. does that necessitate he was a communist...This is just my question ... I am not very clear about the answer(s) ;)

    Ithellaam irukattum, neenga rendu perum en climate change ukku ethira kavidhai elutha koodathu :P

    A poem 'inspired' form "Rain Rain Come Again" would be good to start with.

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  6. dei, niruthunga da. Intha blog'a padichittu, intha comment ellam yaravathu padikkalam nunecha ethavathu puriuma? ethavathu sambatham irukka, intha comment'ugalukkum, intha blog post'kkum?

    erkanave naan elutharathu onnum puria mattenguthu nu ore complaint. Nallu peru vanthu blog'a padikkurathe oru peria visiam, ithu la neenga vera merkondu naalanju elumicham palathai pulinju vittu ennda seivinai vekkiringa?

    sandai podura mood'la irunthinga nna, ethavathu oru hotel'la room pootu sandai poodunga, atha vittutu aduthavan idathula ennda kalavaram pannuringa?

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  7. annan "we are not CHE GUEVERA" avargalukku :P

    athavathu, ungaluku ulagam therila nu solra alavuku nan muttalaa?? neenga maranthu poi mathi adichuteenga, athai inga yarum thappa eduthukapadathunu oru nallennathula soliputan.. ambututhen.. :)

    "I also seriously condemn your racist act of correcting our Tamil pronunciation of 'pidal' as 'fidel'."
    ayya raasa, athukulla enakoru label kuthita pathiya? :) ithula nan unaku kuthitatha vera solra? athavathu, naama thanglish ayum english ayum sethu adikirathala vara prachnai ithu? ithuku karanamum google thannu nan solran.. karadiya pudichu kelunga.. easy ah transliterate panra mathiri venumnu.. ithuku poi enna kumureengaley? :P

    aprom intha mathiri 'word-dropping' lam thevai thananum yosika vaikuthu unnoda comments.. irunthalum paravalla.. pora varaikum povom..

    aanalum kelvi kekkurathula neenga killadithanunga.. enaku thericha varai avan soviet-communist ah illa.. aana chinese-communist ah irunthurukan.. sari, ipdi pesipappom.. avan panna ninachathai ellam oru 'ism' ah aakuna(ethuku da innonnu nu kekkurathu theriyuthu.. :P) athu enna varumo athaiye namma vachuppom.. maoism irukum pothu cheism nu onnum irunthutupoguthu.. namakenna varthaika pancham? :P

    aduthathu enga 'kavithaiya' kindal panni pesinathala ungala patha udaney kothuparota poda utharavu.. nee yaruda utharavu poda, oppression apdi ipdi nu adutha comment vanthuchuna nanga appeat!! :P

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  8. aprom Ragu, :) ithellam appappo nadaka than seiyum.. azhapadathu.. venum na intha comment lam delete panidu.. onnum periya matter illa..

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  9. :) vittupponavai sila..
    intha Tamil pronunciation'ungaratha nan apdi pakala.. neenga yetho comedy ku than adichutruntheenga nu nan ninachan.. enga 'Tamil' ah 'Thamizh' nu adikirathu illana 'Tamil' nu adikirathula enakulam yegapata kelvinganna.. athanala inima adikiratha iruntha தமிழ் la ye adichudurom makkaa.. :P முடிச்சுக்குவோம்.

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  10. checked your blog after a long time. On a roll polirukku ?

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