LITERARY CRUSADER
T.V. Ramana Murty
Rare literary voice of Visakha city
Smoking Cigarettes in charismatic smiles
In neat inshirt and handsome bespectacled face
Surrounded by literacy and theatre lovers often
Known as Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry
Singing the old English and Telugu lyrics melodic
Emotionally involved in the game of foot ball
Rolling and drolling on the streets of the town
Browsing on ragging poverty and dirt
Unleashing thoughtful short stories and novels
With maze of words and unimaginable phraseology
Divulging the darker zones of human life
With a gold nib unstinted and unfazed
With a surge and challenge uncompromising
Storming the corridors of self and pelf
With unflinching temper and emotion unbridled
Crowning the Visakha dialect as literary realm
With a grammar and diction unknown in the past
Like Nayagara water falls with an indelible gush
Till he breathed last with contentment and clamour.