- Dr. Rao K. Velchala

O, Writer!

When you write

Write not like writing but like painting.

Let your script be the flowers,

Content, the fragrances.

Write your thoughts as the very feelings,

The emotions, the sentiments,

Bleeding, pleading, touching, moving,

pulsating.

Write not, like you are writing

But like your very feelings are writing.

Write as a lover writes to a lover

tensely, intensely,

A friend to a friend, a comrade to a comrade

Feelingly, healingly,

Write not like writing an idea but an ideal,

Not as logic but as magic.

Write something fresh, afresh

Verily the lush to refresh,

To make the reader wish, wish and wish.

Write like the upswing of a spring,

A note of music’s alighting ring.

Write to elevate, enlighten, enrapture,

Like the heart itself writing to heart,

soul to soul.

Not like writing with ink, but with "drink"

As "Khayyam" wrote his "Omar Khayyam".

O Writer!

Writing is not mere writing

But creating, discovering, inventing, innovating,

Telling something new, novel and unique

Producing splendor

to make the listener wonder.

Writing is to paint the real as the ideal,

The ideal as the real,

The fact as the fantasy,

The fantasy as the fact,

The truth as the myth

The myth as the truth,

The logic as the magic,

The magic as the logic.

Otherwise, O Writer!

Why write at all something light

Like unveiling the eve, even before the eve,

Night, even before the night.

And why write poetry at all

Otherwise an angel

To look like a dipping kite

Sliding and slipping from the celestial height?

And why still fight on the right to write

As if it is the ‘Birth Right’,

"A Fundamental Right"?