Poetry in stills

Born and brought up at a time when the City of Pearls started flourishing, Satya Srinivas is a Social Ecologist, Writer, Poet, Painter and Photographer. While being associated with various national and international organizations on several natural resource conservation initiatives, he travelled intensely to rural areas and forests in order to make the rural and tribal population aware about the environment around them and accessing their rights. During the course of these years of travel, he found a companion in his Manual SLR camera.
What started as means for documentation led to much more.  Through his travels and photographs, he was inspired to write, especially poetry. The poetry led to an occasional sketch too at times. He considers poetry to be an emotional outburst of a moment, much like William Wordsworth.
He recently held his first solo art exhibit called ‘#20 Memoirs’; he’s published his poems in both English and Telugu. While his photographs weren’t available for sale earlier, he is soon going to put them up for the same. Organized, simple and humble, here are a few photograph, sketch and poem compilations from his archives:

Womb

Received first message from the earth
Reciprocated last wish of mine to it
Now saplings and soil
are in constant conversation
Musings spread everywhere

వర్షం

అడుగంత

ముద్రకోసం

లేడిలా

గెంతుకుంటూ

ప్రతిఅణువు

తడిపేయడంయెందుకో

Why does the rain ought to wet every inch of the ground like a prancing deer for a single footprint?

(Duchharti Bheemavaram, 18^th May 1996)

Companion

He departs by narrating everything
in few words
A parched earth
turns into green meadows
with a shower.

జ్వరమొచ్చినఊరు

వేయిన్నొక్క

కోరికల

తర్వాత

మళ్ళీ

ఓ తీరని కోరిక

జన్మ

ఒకేఆలొచన

దీర్ఘకాలవ్యాధిలా!

భుజానున్న

గోనెసంచి

జీవితాన్ని

గొంతుకు

చుట్టుకున్న

మాయతీగతో
మోస్తూ…

(30-5-96, రేగులపాడు)

After a thousand and one wishes, there comes another unfulfilled wish – Life
The same thought like a chronic disease
A jute bag over the shoulder; life tied around the neck, bearing with an invisible thread…

(Regulapadi, 30^th May 1996)

Walk-Inn

Star seeds
Sprout in me
Like clouds
spirit mission
I will
spread on galactic
space
With an attire
of light
To imprint
the Earth
for ever to cherish

Boy and the Sea

His thoughts
float
For the return of his father
In child’s memories
concerns are
paper boats.

సూర్యుడు

కరిగిపోతున్న

రాత్రికల

The Sun: A night’s melting dream
(6^th June 1996)

Posthumous Poem

Beneath the tree
Coal relics
mine my
requiem
– G. Satya Srinivas
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