Frustration Poems

Home sweet home! We live there but do not realize that it changes each day. Children grow up, parents grow old and die, girls get married and go away, boys marry and bring strangers home. If we go away for long time, changes become visible when we return. We miss …

Here is a famous poem by Ram Avtaar Tyagi. One has to strive constantly because the moment of success can come just at any time. I especially like the last stanza “our own two feet take us to our destination, there is no use unnecessarily pleading with the path”. Rajiv …

In the night sky, a star falls and vanishes in horizon. In this short lovely poem Bachchan Ji likens it to the short and un-sung human life. Rajiv Krishna Saxena देखो, टूट रहा है तारा। नभ के सीमाहीन पटल पर एक चमकती रेखा चलकर लुप्त शून्य में होती-बुझता एक निशा …

I recently saw the movie “Zindagi na milegi dobaara”. A nice movie indeed. A poem of Jawed Akhter was effectively used in this film. I would like to share it with the readers. Rajiv Krishna Saxena यूं ही होता है जब जब दर्द का बादल छाया जब ग़म का साया …

Two lovers who cannot disclose their love to the world, have to be very careful indeed. Here is a poem of Devraj Dinesh saying just that. Rajiv Krishna Saxena यह बात किसी से मत कहना तेरे पिंजरे का तोता तू मेरे पिंजरे की मैना यह बात किसी से मत कहना। …

In today’s world, only falsehood survives and prospers. Genuineness has no scope. We all feel this at times as we see the non-deserving sycophants get ahead in life whereas the truthful hard-worker languishes. Here is a lovely poem depicting this scene. Rajiv Krishna Saxena सूर्य की अब किसी को जरूरत …

“Upset you may be, please come to me even if for hurting me again” says the first line of this famous gazal.  This lovely gazal has been sung equally beautifully by Mehdi Hassan, Rajiv Krishna Saxena  रंजिश ही सही रंजिश ही सही, दिल ही दुखाने के लिये आ आ फिर …

Here is an excerpt from a famous poem of Dr. Dharmvir Bharti written at the time of Jai Prakash Narain’s movement of 1974. This sounds so apt in today’s scenario when Anna Hazare is leading a mass anti-corruption movement that seems to have mesmerized the people of India. Rajiv Krishna …

Perhaps we all live two lives. One that is real and the other that we wish we had lived. Our childhood ambitions may not have been realized but while going through the trials and tribulations of the real life, we often think how different the life could have been. Many …

We work so hard in life. Running tirelessly here and there, always busy, as if we are daily wage labourers hired by some master. What is the compulsion? Who is that master? Kunwar Narayan asks in this lovely poem. Rajiv Krishna Saxena काँधे धरी यह पालकी काँधे धरी यह पालकी, …