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A few melodic words of cheer!!

A Malayalam song, sung by Umbayi and heard on a drive to Coorg, caught my attention with its simple yet captivatingly positive message. It talked about the faith of a leaf in its last green vein and how the hope spread to everything around it, the branch, the tree, the woods, the earth, the sun and the poet himself. It tells me not to under-estimate the last ray of hope.

Here's the original lyrics in Malayalam and an attempt to translate the content into English, verbatim.

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Oru njarambippozhum pachayaayundennu orila thante chillayodothi..
Pozhiyaathe orila ippozhum bakkiyennoru chilla kaattinodothi..

Oru chilla kaattil kulungaathe nilppundennoru maram pakshiyodothi..
Oru maram vettaathe oru konil kaanumennoru kaaadu bhoomiyodothi..

Oru kaadu bhoomiyil baakkiyundennoru mala swantham sooryanodothi..
Oru sooryaniniyum kedaatheyundennu njaaan padarunna raathriyodothi..
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That a vein is still green on it, told a leaf to its branch..
That a leaf is still on it, attached, told the branch to the wind..

The tree told the bird that a branch is still on it, unshaken by the wind..
The woods told the earth that a tree still stood in a corner, unfelled..

That a forest is still left on the earth, told a mountain to its sun..
And I told the spreading darkness that a sun is still abright, unquenched.
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Umbayi (P A Ibrahim, by the real name), has sung a bunch of songs, possibly the only Ghazals in malayalam. The above piece might not conform to the strict rules of Ghazal, though.

You can stream a few Ghazals by Umbayi, from here

posted by ദീപക് -:-Deepak @ 1:39 AM