Bal Kavita

मैं तो वही खिलौना लूँगा – सियारामशरण गुप्त

मैं तो वही खिलौना लूँगा - सियारामशरण गुप्त

Children do not care about the cost of their toy. If they like a toy, they would like to play with it leaving behind much more expensive ones. Here is a famous poem of Shri Siyaram Saran Gupta that gives this message. Poor Deena’s child is enticed with the golden …

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इतिहास की परीक्षा – ओम प्रकाश आदित्य

इतिहास की परीक्षा – ओम प्रकाश आदित्य

Here is a hilarious poem from Om Prakash Aditya Ji. An utterly unprepared student gives History test! Rajiv Krishna Saxena इतिहास की परीक्षा इतिहास परीक्षा थी उस दिन‚ चिंता से हृदय धड़कता था, थे बुरे शकुन घर से चलते ही‚ बाँया हाथ फड़कता था। मैंने सवाल जो याद किये‚ वे …

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उठो लाल अब आँखें खोलो – अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय हरिऔध

उठो लाल अब आँखें खोलो – सोहनलाल द्विवेदी

There is some thing magical about simple and wholesome poems for children. In today’s complex world, this simplicity and its immense beauty can move one to tears. Read on the gentle exhortation of a mother to wake her child… Rajiv Krishna Saxena उठो लाल अब आँखें खोलो उठो लाल अब …

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आया वसंत – सोहनलाल द्विवेदी

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 …

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पुष्प की अभिलाषा – माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी

Desire of a flower

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, …

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झंडा ऊँचा रहे हमारा – श्यामलाल पार्षद

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 …

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गिरिधर की कुंडलियाँ – गिरिधर कविराय

गिरिधर की कुंडलियाँ – गिरिधर कविराय

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 …

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माँ कह एक कहानी – मैथिली शरण गुप्त

माँ कह एक कहानी – मैथिली शरण गुप्त

Most of us have heard this story of Siddharta and the swan wounded by a hunter. The story has a moral that the savior is far bigger a person than the killer. Here when Siddhartas son Rahul insists on hearing a bedtime story from his mother, she tells him his …

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हम सब सुमन एक उपवन के – द्वारिका प्रसाद माहेश्वरी

हम सब सुमन एक उपवन के – द्वारिका प्रसाद माहेश्वरी

Here is a lovely poem most of us may have read in school days. Unity in diversity is emphasized here. Rajiv Krishna Saxena हम सब सुमन एक उपवन के हम सब सुमन एक उपवन के एक हमारी धरती सबकी, जिसकी मिट्टी में जन्मे हम। मिली एक ही धूप हमें है, सींचे गए …

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कहां रहेगी चिड़िया – महादेवी वर्मा

Were will the bird live?

Mahadevi Verma had been a pillar of the Chhayavadi era of the Hindi poetry. Several of her famous poems are available in Geeta Kavita. Here is one of her simple poems for children. Those who have read the stories and memoirs of Mahadevi Verma would know how much she loved …

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