My muses

dr k g balakrishnan

                         My mind the dancing whirlpool
                         Its depth immeasurable;
                         Its fulcrum the Time, the endlessness;
                         It is the eternal intuitive speck of mine.

                         My selfish self is dead an’ gone;
                         I am anew, the nascent view;
                         Immortal; lone an’ non-duel;
                         -The nameless formless Hue.

                          The Light illuminating my mind,
                          The hush ecstatic tranquilizing;
                          The solitude of calmness mutes;
                          -The bliss blossoming to the Nought.

                           The thought who am I lingering;
                           The hymn whispering: “you, you are!”
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My Birthday

dr.k g balakrishnan

                   

                        Bright, brilliant the sky;

                        Am inquisitive; the why;

                        Is as usual bewildering;

                        Me the knowing unknowing!

                        The spontaneity of this speck;

                        The uncertainty of this clock;

                        Really what does it speak?

                        O it is past; the next is in sight!

                        Happy I am for this dawn;

                        My 68^th birthday is born;

                        How much I saw sang;

                        Heard tasted smelt an’ ran!

                       

                        Still my eyes, eager to view;

                        The next morn nascent new;

                        My wings winging to the show;

                        That conjuring swirling glow!

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കൂട്ടാളി

ഡോ.കെ.ജി.ബാലകൃഷ്ണന്‍ 

കടലിലും കരയിലും 

കായല്പ്പരപ്പിലും

ഇടതൂര്‍ന്ന കാടിന്റെ

ചുടുനെടുവീര്‍പ്പിലും

പീടികത്തിണ്ണയില്‍ 

അന്തി  ഉറങ്ങുന്ന 

പേടി ഇടം തേടും 

എന്‍ കരള്‍ കാമ്പിലും

കുന്നിന്‍ ചെരുവിലും 

വിണ്ണിന്‍ മറവിലും 

കുഞ്ഞിളം കാറ്റിനു 

കൂട്ടാളി നീ കവേ!

THE VIBRATIONS

dr.k.g balakrishnan

The minutest, the micro-string

Of my inmost, I transcend,

Pulsing in infinite rate,

Oscillates my apprehension,

To make me swirl into the fulcrum,

The unmoving,

-The Bliss, the Quiescent.

The Shanti the Rishi spelled;

Inadequate the Bhasha,

Fragile skeptical ambiguous

Yet inevitable!

Still, the Guru, the Love

Transmitted mum the Jnana,

The codeless Code, the Sutra!

The solemn Mouna!

The stream singing to converse

With the lovely woods an’ the green,

The mountain echoing the thundering,

The orchestra of the breeze, wind

And the roar of the lion merging

To the thrill eternal smooth soothe and sweet.

Into that tranquil zeal,

The Man cruel crooked,

In his harsh khaki,

With his loaded gun,

And greedy eyes!

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26-11-11

Notes-Santi=Tranquility

Bhasha=Language

Jnana=Knowledge

Sutra=Abbreviation

Mouna=Eternal Quietness,

Calmness of mind.

THE AXIS

DR.k g balakrishnan

Turning round and round,
Day-night, spell by spell
The lucid core the Light
Energizing to the Ultimate
Giving birth to the Dawn anew
And to the Dream tranquilizing,
-To the Doom the damn the Past.

Lengthening to the length,
Measuring the Measured,
The unmeasured and the Measure
In vain, waving to the Wave,
To the Longitude of the Infinite,
The Magnitude Indefinite the Full,
Shining as suns billions- seen
More an’ more, unseen-in seen-
Sightseeing, the Source less, the Source
Ultimate, the Selfsameness the Dark, the Torch
The Tune mute, the Dumb eloquent, me the grief
Thee the Fragrance, the Touch remote to my fingertip
My teardrops dissolving to the earth, becoming
The Time the Lie!

Me the virtual;
The Alert, the Dream,
The deep deep Sleep,
The Thureeya!
Revolving round an’ round
Thee-as the planet earth!
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29-10-11

Note-The Thureeya=the fourth state in the life-death cycle,
A state beyond wakefulness, dream and sleep,
The individual soul’s merging with the universal soul.

Dr.k.g.balakrishnan:-Well known Malayalam poet, essayist.10 collections of poems to his
Credit, latest (2011) being AGNIGEETHAM—upasanakandam.Writing poems and essays
in leading periodicals.Practising Geriatric Physician(Modern Medicine).Studied at Cailicut
Mdical College.Native of Kaippamangalam,Thrissur Dist.Now residing at Kattoor 680702.
Mob-9447320801.e-mail drbalakrishnankg@gmail.com

This poem THE AXIS is from ‘The Waves of the Ganga’’-collection of English Poems
By dr.k.g.balakrishnan (to be published by 2012.)