Poet Minnoor Seenivasan with the blogger

Poet Minnoor Seenivasan worked as a Tamil Professor for more than three decades.The blogger had the opportunity to work with him for several years in the Presidency college,Chennai.Minnoor Seenivasan retired as the Head of the Department of Tamil at the Presidency college.He is an able administerator,voracious reader,eloquent orator and erudite scholar.If he had some well-wishers in the political field he would have been given Vice-chancellor positions.But our beloved poet Minnoor did never search for higher posts as he found great pleasure in writing poems,delivering literary discourses.Later he dispalayed his skills in
painting.

Time is a wonderful maid!

Minnoor Seenivasan is a wonderful poet capable of captivating the eternal time in his poetic creation.You can enjoy his visualising skills and radiant thoughts in this poem.(All poems quoted in this blog have been translated by the blogger.)


Time is a wonderful maid

Time is a wonderful maid:
She is changing her name daily
As-“Yesterday” “Today” and “Tomorrow”!
She never stops her travel
Like wind and river, moving always,
Her journey is on, on and on!
Time is a wonderful maid;
A virgin maid for ever and ever;

Then and now I have seen her beauty
Here and there I have observed it;
Desire is my brush to hold it with grip
Here and there, in my heart
which is a screen, to preserve it
I am drawing with my might.
In her beautiful forehead
She keeps dark night as a dot;
The marble moon is
Her adorable face;
Perpetually she preserves her youth
Everlastingly young,
She never becomes old;
The morning star is a flower for her
She decorates her head with it
Before the dawn blossoms;
The bright color of the morning
Becomes the turmeric paste for her
After applying it for face
She plucks the evening sun
And puts it in her forehead
as a beautiful Tilak.
She covers her face
With fog as a veil;
After a while
She rises again
Like an awesome painting!
Oh! Eternal beauty!
The red sky in the dusk
She takes with much pleasure
To adorn her feet as a red paint!
The early night darkness
Is a cosmetic ointment
for her eyes;
Time-a wonderful maid
Never becomes old
Like a poem highly classic
She lives a life of eternity!
The rhythmic musical sound of rivers
Is a wonderful tribute for her;
The spring, full of flowers, is the
Enchanting smile of the maid, Time!
The Fame which never withers,
Remains as her friend for ever!

Come on!Sing merrily!

Minnoor Seenivasan has given a valuable counselling through this poem.It promotes self-development and induces motivation for a brisk and brilliant personality.Please have a reading and judge yourserlf.



Come on! Sing merrily!

When the hard rock clashes and
Dashes vehemently
Without any worry the creek sings
Sweet melodies mellifluously;
Even if difficulties dash against you
Come on sing like a creek!
Sing charmingly!

Black clouds in the sky
Bombard each other
Without any fear for the
Terrific thunderstorms
The lightning laughs at it
With a flash of smile bright!
If troubles dash in your life
Happily laugh at them!
Enrich your thinking!
Bloom! Be cheerful!
Bright vision and right decision
should lead you to heights.

Neither hurricane nor tempest
Can shake the Assembly of stars;
Without any fear, they smile brightly.,
Driving away darkness, they adore the sky;
Whatever storm that meets you in life
Should never bother you!
Laugh away your worries!
Brighten up your mind!
Cheer up your heart!

Even if our hands bang and beat
The Drum is never hurt;
It produces rhythmic treat
To make us dance with joy!
If misery and grief strike you
Please don’t get shattered!
Let sweet music fill up your heart
Brush up suddenly!
Let your mind absorbed in music
Come on! Sing merrily!

Poet Minnoor Seenivasan

Minnoor Srinivasan is one among the famous poets of Tamilnadu, noted for his dedication to Nature poetry. He is also one among the pioneers who took the cause of developing literature for the younger ones. Avoiding nonsensical rhymes and absurd verbal gymnastics for children, he always uses lucid language with crisp phrases and catchy idioms. Both the form and content of his poems try to mend the young minds in the correct path to grasp lofty ideals and noble thoughts.

“Kanmanippaattu”, a collection of songs and rhymes in Tamil, is a laudable venture which deserves appreciation from both sections, the younger ones who are in search for the best books they can read, and the lovers of poetry who crave for poems with a humanist mission. Being a collection of Sixty-two poems it offers kaleidoscopic, verbal paintings of human life.

The first poem in this volume is on mother”Amma” and the concluding poem is on the child”paappa.”This volume of poems emphasizes human relations and illustrates the roles of various people in the making of our society. The Peasant (uzhavan), the toiler (uzhaippaali), the Fisherman (meenavar), the Goldsmith (thattaar), the Sweeper (kuppaithotti), and the postman (anjalpetti) are described in an apt manner with a view to teach the children to respect and realize the dignity of labor.

Poems on Nature in this volume sincerely try to inculcat6e a sense of aesthetic appreciation in the younger minds. Domestic pets and wild animals are beautifully portrayed with vivid descriptions; some poems directly take to teaching of morals and some with the help of fascinating rhyme and alluring rhythm.

The work “Kanmanippaattu” may rightly be called as a classic among the children’s literature.

“Minnoor seenivasan Kavithaikal”, his volume of poems for the adult readers is not only

a thought-provoking collection but also a valuable social document depicting the modern life with all its complications. After a thorough reading of this volume, it would justifiably be said that Minnoor Seenivasan is more a shaper of the modern social consciousness than any one among the modern writers.

His”Vanna Vanna Minkal” and “Mazhalaikkanavukal” are the best works, which not only deserve appreciation but also need to be propagated among school children.

Minnoor, the modern Santa Claus of Tamilnadu always carries many bags of best poems for the Tamil-knowing children. If the goods are delivered through audio and video channels hope his mission may get a speedy realization.

It is no exaggeration to describe Minnoor as a Myriad-minded artist and versatile genius,

I always consider Minnoor as a Tagore of the present age.

His laudable works on Nature and his sincere aim to make children as true lovers of Nature has no comparison.

Here we find a High Priest of Nature in this modern age, who strives through his writings to mould and shape the minds of the children-Citizens of Tomorrow-in a nobler direction to respect and appreciate the Nature.