#cempulappeyanirar

[judyworldnew]

Red earth and pouring rain - Cempulappeyanirar 1st - 3rd century AD

[fairerhousethanprose]

What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But in love our hearts have mingled like red earth and pouring rain.

Cempulappeyanirar, “What He Said”, translated by A.K. Ramanujan

[cdnsongbirdme]

What He Said

What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But in love our hearts have mingled like red earth and pouring rain.

By Cempulappeyanirar, 'poet of the red earth and pouring rain,' from Kuruntokai, a classical Tamil poetic work. Translation by A K Ramanujan, from The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems

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[antigonick]

But in love our hearts are as red earth and pouring rain:                                  mingled beyond parting.

Cempulappeyanirar, excerpt of Kur 40 (tr. by A. K. Ramanujan)

[poemsiheart]

What He Said

What could my mother be to yours? What kin my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But in love Our hearts have mingled like red earth and pouring rain.

Cempulappeyanirar

(Source: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.in/)

[sombrerofullofpeanuts]

What He Said

What could my mother be

to yours? What kin is my father

to yours anyway? And how

did you and I meet ever?

                            But in love

our hearts have mingled

like red earth and pouring rain.

-Cempulappeyanirar

Translated by A.K. Ramanujan

[asuddenline]

What He Said

What could my mother be to yours? What kin my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But in love Our hearts have mingled like red earth and pouring rain.

Cempulappeyanirar