Kannada Poems | Examples

Love for Children

In rooms where futures are decided,
old men argued about small voices,
children who had been silenced
for a thousand years.

"Should we teach them in English,
the language of their masters?
Or let them speak
in their grandmother's tongue?"

One truth burned bright:
every word they chose
would echo in ten million hearts.

They decided:
Let the Kannada child
dream in Kannada first,
let the Tamil child
sing Tamil songs,
but teach them all
that two plus two
equals hope
in any language.

This was revolution
disguised as policy,
understanding that a flower
blooms best in home soil
but must grow tall enough
to touch the sun.

So they built bridges:
from village to nation,
from mother's lullaby
to the world's stage,
from one small voice
to the chorus of tomorrow.

Education became love,
the bridge between
who you are
and who you could become.