Thursday, March 15, 2007

An attempt at Marathi prosody

I am experimenting with Marathi Prosody (वृत्त) for the first time ever. I am excited about how poems with syllables bound by rules sound better than with ones that aren't. I am in Switzerland, trying to welcome Spring, but all of a sudden, the weather has changed and it has started snowing. I wrote the following stanza.

वृत्त - भुजन्गप्रयात

वसंतात का हा चमत्कार व्हावा
हवे ऊन वाटे, तु बर्फ पडावा
नको गार वारे पुन्हा बोचणारे
नव्या पालव्यांचा ऋतू आज यावा