Brother and
Sister
JANAMANCHI VENKATRAMIAH
Like two tiny parrots from one parent nest
Like two busy bees hovering round one lotus flower
Like two blossoming eyes on a beaming face
Like two bright flames in one silver plate
And,
Like a pair of goodly pearls on a red silken thread
Like a pair of buds on the bough of a flowering tree
And,
Like the lighted surface and the light emanating
from the self same moon
Like the delight and affection from a single love
And indeed
Like the untainted consciousness and the unmitigated bliss that belong to one essence,
Thus do I think in my mind, beholding the going about,
in the foreyard of my house, two little children and
their active pranks, in great joy of heart.
(Rendered from Telugu by M. Visweswara Rao)