Before Leaving The Inn Comments

This is a wonderful tribute, heart rending and very moving....thk you Sir for sharing..................

beautiful tribute and dedicated with loving words....... Good work and reflects your gracious approach............

My prostrations are unto thee, Oh! pleasant mother earth, I leave thy inn- Herewith I return my keys. Thanks for all the dales and kindly lease..........most brilliant tribute to great poet Mahakavi P.Kunhiraman Nayar, hats off to his poetic glaze by curve of meaning by mortality and ultimate genuflection to mother earth at finale by surrendering all belongings what he had with him all through life, wonderful feeling yet utterly evocative, and translation certainly reaches the niche to delve truth, well done dear, i applaud,10+++, thanks for sharing

Great Tribute to Mid aged Mother Earth and our great poet, Mahakavi P.Kunhiraman nayar always waked, played, and sung on the lap of his mother, onthe sandy bank of Bharathapuzha and the green paddy fields etc etc. thanks,10++

We can't survive without Mother Earth and this is a fine tribute indeed to her. Also I admire the translation you have done in the first stanza. 10 love Karin

all the tribute poems that you have written so far good, including this poem, fine verses that start and finish the poem perfectly.

the first stanza and the rest go hand in hand very well...a fine tribute to the poet...he had thanked mother earth...we should thank you

oh! really great.it is wonderful to know when some one is leaving and to thank mother eath where one lived is indeed a great gesture.nice poem full 10 posted surya

Thanks RAvi, for this wonderful information.This is indeed a great tribute.

The first stanza is really touching, the poet's thanksgiving to this mother earth before taking leave of her once for all. The way he has presented his feelings, he must have been a Mahakavi, I can understand. The rest of the lines have been made up as if he would have written the same. Nice work.

mother earth will forever give birth to all that we need, everytime that she plants her seed. but! humanity must learn to respect and give back to her. a ten

A fine tribute the great poet and great planet mother earth. I bid goodbye to books in my poem 'Good bye books.....' under similar circumstances. Very fine poem.

this poem expresses different faces of life..i has multi meaning..well done..

A good tribute to mother earth, may MAN be conscious enough to care for mother earth and preserve it for the future generations....

Writing of Mother Earth is always an upbuilding subject and this is one of your best verses Ravi.... loved the final lines too....10 from Fay

how can we ever repay what she's gracious enough to give us all...a wonderful tribute to mother earth...hats off to your poetic genius that could take off from those original lines as if it's all one flow...

Yeah but before leaving the inn. One must fulfilled the purpose for which inn was rented. And purpose was to get enlightenement. And once you achieve this it doesnt matter whether you care for inn or not. When you cross the other shore of samsara there is no need to think about boat(body) .Still if you want to take care, just take care so you can help others to cross the ocean.........a good write.......

I can vaguely make out the great original in Malayalam. Recently I met Sri Sridharan, an eminent Malayalam Poet, at Nellore. When he sang one of his lyrics (it seems he is writing for movies) (his voice was melodious too) we were all immersed in the beauty of the language and his great expression, though our understanding of Malayalam is very poor. But the language itself has got some magic in it. This poem has such great content, which proves the rich literary heritage of Kerala. Thanks for inviting me to read this one.