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Meleager Translations
...If I am Syrian, what of it? Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals. The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals. —Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch Love, how can I ca......

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Categories: transl, desire, drink, feelings, for
Form: Epigram
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn......

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Categories: transl, bullying, immigration, leadership, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 4 With a Clive Bush Comment By T Wignesan
...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......

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Categories: transl, england, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 2 With Commentary By T Wignesan
...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......

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Categories: transl, america, angst, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Florilege of Distiches From the Thiruk-Kural: K129, K752
...Florilège of distichs from the THIRUK-KURAL: K129, K102 K129: thiiyinaal shutta*pun ullaarum aaraathE naavinaal shutta vadu* (*vadu (n.) = scar, ulcer; *shudu (v.) = burn) In ......

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Categories: transl, art, discrimination, fire, metaphor,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member K1087 and K1089 of Canto 109 In the Thiruk-Kural: Thagainangkuraiththal
...K1087 and K1089 of Canto 109 of the THIRUK-KURAL: Thagaianangkuraiththal (In the transliterations, the capital vowels stand for the repetition of the same vowel: eg., “A” for “aa”) K1087: k......

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Categories: transl, beautiful, emotions, first love,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
...Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133 (Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the......

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Categories: transl, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiruk-Kural On Women Who Know No Bounds: Canto 92 Varaivin Makalir K913,K919 and K920
...The THIRUK-KURAL on Women who know no bounds : Canto 92 – K913, K919 and K920 (Thiru-Valluvar comes down heavily on women of the « oldest profession in the world » in this Canto 92 consigned wi......

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Categories: transl, drink, men, money, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member On Praising Ladies On Their Qualities In the Thiruk-Kural: Canto 112, K1114 and K1120
...On Praising Ladies on their Qualities in the THIRUK-KURAL: Canto 112, Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal, K1114 and K1120 [Please see "introduction on the plight of young girls" in the previous post on......

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Categories: transl, beauty, child abuse, mother,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal
...Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal [The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amor......

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Categories: transl, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Impartial Insights Or Intellectual Snobbery In Thiru-Valluvar's Thiruk-Kural: Canto 84 Peethaimai
...Impartial insight into Human Nature or intellectual Snobbery in Thiru-Valluvar's THIRU-KURAL: Canto 84 - PEETHAIMAI* [Note: Throughout his oeuvre, there can be found aphorisms which broadly hin......

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Categories: transl, abuse, character, sympathy, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900 [* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought t......

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Categories: transl, political, power, tamil, ,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K895 and K897
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897 [* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to......

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Categories: transl, leadership, political, power, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural Highlights the Role of the Ambassador As the King's Messenger-Spy: Canto 69
...The THIRUK-KURAL highlights the role of the AMBASSADOR* as the King's Messenger-SPY: THUUTHU, Canto 69 [*THUUTHU in Tamil translates as ENVOY and principally connotes variously as: "messenger",......

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Categories: transl, leadership, patriotic, political, power,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiru-Valluvar Discourses On the Duties of the King's Ministers: Amaichchu - K637 and K639
...THIRU-VALLUVAR discourses on the duties of the King's Ministers* in the THIRUK-KURAL: AMAICCHU - K637 and K639 [* In presentday context, read as Minister(s) of State, Secretary of State, Special ......

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Categories: transl, political, power, , cute,
Form: Epigram

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