Frustration Poems

Bible says that he who increases knowledge, increases sorrow. Faith in God is a great savior of humans and gives then courage to go through life. Post-modern man with his education and rational mind has lost this faith. Bereft of this faith, he is unable to find meaning in his …

Expectations do not get realized in life, more often than they do. Here is a nice depiction by Kunwar Bechain. The poem especially seems to point to failed expectations from children when they grow up. Rajiv Krishna Saxena उँगलियाँ थाम के उँगलियाँ थाम के खुद चलना सिखाया था जिसे राह …

Some one has gone – left for ever – only memories remain and tears. Prabha Thakur describes the feelings. Rajiv Krishna Saxena याद आती रही आंख रह–रह मेरी डबडबाती रही‚ हम भुलाते रहे याद आती रही! प्राण सुलगे‚ तो जैसे धुआं छा गया। नैन भीगे‚ ज्यों प्यासा कुआं पा गया। …

Heart-break of losing the love of one’s life is unbearable, but if the loser is a poet, the verbalization of depression can be very eloquent. This is first of a set of two poems from Bal Swarup Rahi. In the first poem, the poet is shattered as the love of …

The relationship between a husband and wife is based on total faith. A girl leaves her family and adopts the family of her husband. Her expectation is that her husband will take her in full confidence and share all feelings and thoughts with her. Prince Siddharta (who later became Gautam …

Here is a devil-may-care attitude of a girl to falling in love with an inappropriate man. Rajiv Krishna Saxena है तो है वो नहीं मेरा मगर उससे मुहब्बत है तो है ये अगर रस्मों रिवाजों से बगावत है तो है सच को मैंने सच कहा, जब कह दिया तो कह …

Here is a reality check. We may be proud and arrogant but a tiny particle fallen in our eyes may totally defeats us. Rajiv Krishna Saxena   एक तिनका   मैं घमंडों में भरा ऐंठा हुआ एक दिन जब था मुँडेरे पर खड़ा आ अचानक दूर से उड़ता हुआ एक …

There are dilemmas in life at every step. What to do? Which alternative to choose? And there are no authentic and correct answers. We must nonetheless make a choice. Rajiv Krishna Saxena राह कौन सी जाऊं मैं चौराहे पर लुटता चीर‚ प्यादे से पिट गया वजीर‚ चलूं आखिरी चाल कि …

Kumar Vishwas is a well-known contemporary Hindi poet. He was also a leader of AAP party of Delhi. His following poem seems to express his disillusion with the on-goings in AAP party lead by Arvind Kejriwal.  Poem itself is very good and reminded me of another nice poem on Geeta-Kavita …

Sahir Ludhianavi was born in 1921 in a Jamindar family in Ludhiana. He migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition but returned back to India since Pakistani Government had issued an arrest warrant in response to some of his writings. Back in India he received huge recognition for his …