The perils of morning walks!

hello


kaathu vaanga ponen
kavithai vaangi vanthen..
enru paattu undu..
kazhudai vaangi vanthen
enru thirithu paaduvathum undu
ingu echam vaangi vanthen enrum
naayay konjam viratti...

vathi potti maadigalil
kudiyirukkum manithargalin
chinna chinna aasaigalai
viratti viratti aditheere..?
walking povathu
oru kalai...
veettilirunthu thappiyo?
thanni pidikkavendum
kai vaangavendum
kulithu odi bus pidikka vendum..
ithanaikkum naduvil
intha paazhapona vayirai
nirappavum vendum
kaatrillaamal
ingu silar athanai baloon enru solli
viduvaargal

nadai pondra sugam
athuvum
kadarkarai oram
koduthu vaithirukkavendum
menmaiyaana kaatru varuda...
ozone enrum..oxygen enrum
pirithellam pesamal...
jillendra kaatre...

sathya

Sathya
Extempore pesupavargalai parthirukkiren
Extempore kavithai ezhuduvadai ippothuthan paarkiren
Thangal keybord kavithai mattumthan adikkuma?
urai nadai thangal nadai muraiyil kidayatha?
Ithanai thiramai IL thaandi veliyil vara vendama?
Sri

Cheeniya sir,

Quelle horreur! I missed this one till this forunate moment.

And what an active and varied picture you have painted with the morning walk piece! I am reminded of the one I read and enjoyed in college, I think it was by GK Chesterton. Your piece is just as awesome.

You have covered almost all the joys and jeorpadies of a morning walk. I must add the occasional bore who buttonholes us in the midst of a sweating, aerobic power walk to share the finer details of his mappilai's promotion in the US!

Keep em coming Cheeniya sir! You rock and roll!

regards
Vidya

And Vidya again this time comparing me to no less than GKC himself!
Its going to be tough for me to maintain this tempo with the kind of expectations you place on me!
And you keep increasing the height of the pole!

Let us shake hands on a piece well written and a piece well appreciated.
(Well, the glove is sometimes velvet, sometimes iron. This piece warranted the velvet side).

Basically, the bar in IL for writers is very high. Which is amazing since IL is not excatly a literary site. The good side is we get to read sterling works by starwalts like Nuggehalli Pankaja, Varalotti, Ambika Anant, Cheeniya, Tamildownunder. Bad side, a wannabe writer like poor V 24 can hardly dare to post her work in IL.

See u round!

Dear Vidya
You have already made a writer of me!
now I am in elite company too!
Tnx, tnx, nx
Sri

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

The detailed picture that you have drawn about your morning walks is simply great. Seems to me morning walks are definitely a peril in Adyar area along the coast.
Now coming to the pleasures of the evening walk that Chithra posted. I have a tough decision to make, when I come to Chennai next month for good. Whether to go for morning or evening walks when I move to the Adyar area...:confused: or stay off both and just visit a gym hmmmmmm...

Regards,
Jothi.

Dear Jothi
If you want to avoid being bitten by a stray dog, avoid morning walk!
If you want to avoid being mowed down by a speeding truck, avoid evening walk!
Best option is to go to Maverick and remain in Shipshape!
Sri

hello Sir

Now i'm here.

read it when you wrote it, i mean yesterday only, but couldnt find words for appreciation... this is just fabulous, how you really sketched the whole scene of your morning walk for us, i really could picturise it completely...

this is wonderful...

~Abha

Dear Cheeniya,

That was one awesome writeup. I could visualize what you have written. Though not familiar with the Chennai scene, I am familiar to the Mumbai Morning walk scenario. We used to live in the suburb Bandra, and before they built an specific "JoggersPark" so to speak, we used to go walking on the famous "Carter Road" daily in the morning. Apart from the perils you speak of, the worst one we had to face if we didn't not faint was the fumes from the sea of dead fish etc.. and ofcourse the numerous slum residents who made it a point to use the road as their public toilet!!

Well after the Joggers park was built, it was so much more nicer to go for morning walks. This was about 16 yrs back. Don't know what the scene is now!.

As for me, the best place to walk nowadays is on my trusty treadmill catching up on the latest " weeping contest" on Suntv!!

Vandhana