lullaby-Tha tha thabungton

The following is a song in Manipuri that I like. It is a song sung as a lullaby in a movie,”Matamgi Manipur” by singer, A Kamala Devi. Written by, KH. Phulendra, the lines are profound and very sweet. I have tried to translate it, so that you can get the essence of it. It is much better in the original as the words rhyme unlike my poor attempt at translation, and blends well with the soothing music.

Moon, Moon, the gentle moon;

Shines quietly over the clouds,

The stars are aligned and looks on dreamily,

The silver clouds float sleepily,
The swaying winds have rested the trees.


In the night’s cradle, the living have rested.

Pull a clouds’ horse and a wagon of stars,

Listen to mother’s lullaby and sleep o little one.

Beyond the velvet clouds,

Embark on your dream world. "

thinking pictures

You immortalize some relationships by talking and writing about them, while there are some, which you carry only in your heart.

Ad Finem-Poetry

On the white throat of useless passion

That scorched my soul with its burning breath

I clutched my hands in murderous fashion,

And held them close in a grip of death;

For why should I fan, or feed with fuel,

A love that showed me but blank despair ?

So my hold was firm, and my grasp was cruel—

I meant to strangle it then and there!

I thought it was dead. But with no warning,

It rose from its grave last night, and came

And stood by my bed til the early morning

And over and over it spoke your name.

Its throat was red where my hands had held it;

It burned my brow with its scorching breath;

And I knew the moment my eyes beheld it,

"A love like this can know no death."

For just one kiss that your lips have given

In the lost and beautiful past to me,

I would gladly barter my hopes of Heaven

And all the bliss of Eternity.

For never a joy are the angels keeping,

To lay at my feet in Paradise,

Like that into your strong arms creeping,

And looking into your love-lit eyes.

I know, in the way that sins are reckoned,

This thought is a sin of the deepest dye ;

But I know too if an angel beckoned,

Standing close by the Throne on High,

And you, adown by the gates infernal,

Should open your loving arms and smile,

I would turn my back on things supernal,

To lay on your breast a little while.

To know for an hour you where mine completely——-

Mine in body and soul, my own——

I would bear unending tortures sweetly,

With not a murmur and not a moan.

A lighter sin or lesser error

Might change through hope or fear divine;

But there is no fear, and hell has no terror,

To change or alter a love like mine. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 -1919)