Here is a lovely poem for a lover by the well-known poet Gopal Singh Nepali. Rajiv Krishna Saxena यह दिल खोल तुम्हारा हँसना प्रिये तुम्हारी इन आँखों में मेरा जीवन बोल रहा है बोले मधुप फूल की बोली, बोले चाँद समझ लें तारे गा–गाकर मधुगीत प्रीति के, सिंधु किसी के …

Here is a simple poem on spring for children. The scenery described comprising the mustard fields and flowering of mango trees is something that many urban children today would not be familiar with. For old timers, these things arouse nostalgia. Rajiv Krishna Saxena आया वसंत आया वसंत आया वसंत छाई …

Here is an old classic, the desire of a flower by Makhanlal Chaturvedi Ji – Rajiv Krishna Saxena पुष्प की अभिलाषा चाह नहीं मैं सुरबाला के गहनों में गूँथा जाऊँ चाह नहीं, प्रेमी-माला में बिंध प्यारी को ललचाऊँ चाह नहीं, सम्राटों के शव पर हे हरि, डाला जाऊँ चाह नहीं, …

Geeta-Kavita has become very popular amongst school children and their parents who find on this site poems to recite in class, or for home-work. It is therefore important that poems well entrenched in public memory should be available on this site. This famous poem of desh prem should be of …

Soul of India resides in her villages. Agyeya said so in his poem “Hamara Desh” and in this famous poem Sumitranandan Pant Ji makes the point that the gentle, compassionate, enduring and caring Bharatmata lives in villages. We should keep in mind that the poem was written perhaps 70-80 yers …

मामा जी (डॉ धर्मवीर भारती): कुछ संस्मरण बचपन की हम बच्चों की मामा जी डॉ धर्मवीर भारती की यादें बड़ी लुभावनी हैं । अम्मा के साथ  हम तीनों भाई गर्मियों की छुट्टियों में अक्सर इलाहबाद (अब प्रयागराज)  चले  जाते थे । पिता जी डॉक्टर थे और उनका अपने मरीज़ों को …

Rashmirathi is quite a phenomenon in the world of Hindi poetry. Here is another excerpt from third chapter. Lord Krishna had failed to convince Duryodhana to avoid the war. Duryodhana had refused to give any thing back to Pandavas and Krishna had left after declaring that a war in now …

Giridhar Kavirai, the famous medieval Hindi poet wrote kundaliyan that contained common wisdom . Here is a sample. Rajiv Krishna Saxena गिरिधर की कुंडलियाँ लाठी में गुण बहुत हैं, सदा राखिये संग गहरी नदी, नारा जहाँ, तहाँ बचावै अंग तहाँ बचावै अंग, झपटि कुत्ता को मारै दुशमन दावागीर, होय तिनहूँ …

Old is banished as the new comes. Yesterday what was new and was welcomed by the world with all enthusiasm, today lies discarded and forgotten. This is the rule of Nature. Here is a touching poem by Balkavi Bairagi – Rajiv Krishna Saxena झर गये पात झर गये पात बिसर …

Affluent persons have the luxury to indulge in a range of activities that the poor have no time for. Here is a lovely poem by Deviprasad Shukla Rahi. Rajiv Krishna Saxena गरीबों की जवानी रूप से कह दो कि देखें दूसरा घर, मैं गरीबों की जवानी हूँ, मुझे फुर्सत नहीं …