# Selected Poems

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- Published: 2017-08-21T21:23:56+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** P. M. Narayanan [](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/WP_20170807_13_45_03_Pro-1.jpg)
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Translator: **Muraly. R **Pages:** 88 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs
200 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-154-0 (9789350451540)

_**About the Author**_
 Born in 1945, P. M. Narayanan is a Malayalam poet, critic
and translator who has published extensively for the past forty years. His books
include collections of poems, articles, translations, edited works and a biography.
He has received the Sahitya Akademi award for translation. This collection covers
poems he has written from the late 1960s to 2016.

_**About the Translator**_
 Born in 1950, Muraly. R is the nom-de-plume of Ramakrishnan.
R. He has translated European and Latin American poems, and stories by writers from
Europe, into Malayalam. At present he is translating a collection of poems from 
various Indian languages into Malayalam.

_**Teaser**_

_The Lake_

The two – like two words.
 Between them The huge lake Like a soft silence.

Ye sorrowful words
 Desiring the oneness of essence Breaking through the water’s
expanse,

Here they come, the dreams,
 Throwing open the portals of heaven Riding the wings
of lightning.

Ye ever-separated souls,
 You start your journey, To meet, To unite.

Coming closer,
 Your cheeks blush. You melt for a moment, In the languor of a kiss.

The sky, a blazing star for a single moment,
 The pyre then burns out.

Bearing the ashes,
 The endless blue of Time Like the dense silence of the lake.

1982

_**Contents**_
 51 poems spread across 3 sections