Love poem Kurunthogai # 325

White kurugu 

with black legs

in pond

He said “I am leaving you to earn”. (But he did not do). With this deed of hope, once I said “Leave me breaking our relation”. With these words he left me alone. He can alone foster me. I do not know where he is at present. Here is a pond between my breasts filled with eye-drop water resembling the real pond with white crane bird with black legs.  

     

Words by    - heroine

To whom    - her friend-maid

Context       - hero is earning in a distance place.

          

Author of the poem is nanAgaiyAr

2nd century B.C.

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation