K V Venkataramana is a poet in English with six poetry books to his credit. Two of them, 'Vales Of Mystery' and 'Refreshing Breeze' were published in Canada. He is the recipient of several Awards for poetry at City, Taluk, State, National and International levels. His poems have been broadcast over All India Radio, Mangalore. They were also transla ...
K.V.Venkataramana as a poet is of a mystical strain apart from being contemplative and meditative apart from wit, fun, pun and humour he inducts in. Sometimes he is uniquely mystical, sometimes down to realities. His capsule poems are just like cocoons of words.
A Bit Of Soul
When someone suffers
I, too, do;
For a bit of his soul
Lives in me, too!
Style is the man and this can be said about K.V.Venkataramana and his poetry-writing. A poet of a mystical strain, he is witty, epigrammatic and one of practical wisdom. Apart from yoga, he is down to realities with his searching looks as yoga into the bad hands turns into bhoga. On reading him, marking his craftsmanship, we feel it within if his poems were epigrams turned into poems.