Spgm 036 - The Story Of The Spring Season. Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

SPGM 36 - The story of the spring season

(The spring season came. The pang of
separation of Kovalan was hurting Madhavi.
She sent her maid as a messenger to him. He refused
to entertain her maid. She was very much over it
on the hope, "If not today, he may come tomorrow"
and she spent every day with her broken heart.)

THE SPRING SEASON CAME

The Vindhya Mount in the north,
The Kumari Sea in the south,
As Tamil-borders they served
Here the Tamil-land spread.

In this land were there,
Four cities more popular,
Madurai, Vanji, Uraiur,
And the port city Pugar.

King Maravel the great,
The ruler of the Tamil State,
Well-received the home coming
Of the season, the Cupid's spring.

Every alert notice was given,
O'er the advent of this season,
For the modesty of the women.
Thru' the king's tom-tom-man.

MADHAVI IN THE MOONLIGHT COURTYARD.

From the time, out of the spring garden,
Near the sea shore, when Kovalan
Left Madhavi in desperation,
She couldn't bear his separation.

The arrival of the lovely spring,
It increased her passionate feeling,
That gave her an intense craving
For his company everlasting.

She went to the top floor,
To relax in the cool air.
This way she tried her best,
But still her mind wasn't at rest.

Even the cool sandalwood paste,
Or, all her ornaments the best,
They didn't lessen her pain,
When she suffered in vain.

She then sat flat on the ground
For the pleasing veena's sound,
She played sweet songs first,
But it ended in sad tunes at last.

Her every melancholy song,
It brought a signal wrong?
Something she felt missing.
She swooned while singing.

MADHAVI'S GIDDINESS.

While brooding o'er her past,
Her hands moved on the strings fast,
But every time her thoughts
Slowed her hand movements.

He was uppermost in her mind.
Not knowing a way to find,
She swooned once again,
With her heart full of pain.