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"Punarnava" (lit. ''The Ever Renewing'') is a popular award winning poem by the noted Indian English poet and literary critic Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya. The poem won First Prize in the Third All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1991. The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals and scholalry volumes on contemporary Indian poetry. ==Excerpts from the poem== :"Punonnoba"-Punarnava? :In some rainy month, did you decide :to climb up our lichened wall, to reach :the rusty tin-roof, transforming :its shabbiness into velvet-green, :to hang your emerald-pendants :around the neck of our home? ::: * * * * * :All knew the perennial Madhavilata; :the fragrant Hasnuhana; queen of the night. :They gaped when they saw you :running wild on our roof – :Velvet-green, strange, unknown. :We shouted with glee, "It is Punonnoba … Punarnava." :That you had medicinal properties :that your juice soothes and heals :we never knew till the Vaid :sent his servant, :a demon who expertly climbed our roof :hacked away at its emerald-fringed coverlet! :Oh the despair and the hope :the running out in soaking rain :to watch your extending tendrils, :sprouting leaves, :growing in greenness … Punarnava … :eternal companion on the root-top. :That home was left behind, :as birth-strings snapped. ::: * * * * * :A refugee, wanderer, I :look for you, but no one here :knows your name. No one knows :a velvet-green medicinal creeper. :Lost to me, Punarnava, :your shade, your cool décor, :your healing magic. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Punarnava (poem)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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