(Translation from Malayalam of excerpts of poem Mugdham {മുഗ്ദ്ധം} by G Kumara Pillai)
Like a drop of dew, like a
Young flower bedecked by dew,
Like the flower's tiny tender
Pollen resting on its petal;
Like a remembrance old or a
Despair damp dozing mystically
In the gentle scent ferried by the
Breeze from distances far away;
Like the caress of the breeze
Slowly melting away craving
One more faint melody from the lyre,
With the traveller, shocked
Off his sleep aboard a boat
Docked in the immensely silent,
Vast lagoon standing witness;
Like the lamp sparkling somewhere,
On the horizons that shine as a
Thick shadowy line on the edges
Of an already-dusky universe;
No one can describe you, thou
Intense fragility, who will crumble
To dust even at the smoothest
Touch by a language's cusp;
Secure storge I keep clipped,
And I fly for eternity, thou
Emollient charm, all around you.