Life And Time Poems

 Here is a tribute to  Rajesh Khanna  and Anand Bakshi .   Rajiv Krishna Saxena अच्छा तो हम चलते हैं अच्छा तो हम चलते हैं फिर कब मिलोगे? जब तुम कहोगे जुम्मे रात को हाँ हाँ आधी रात को कहाँ? वहीं जहाँ कोई आता-जाता नहीं अच्छा तो हम चलते हैं… किसी …

Some things in life give us immense satisfaction. Here is an excerpt from a poem written by the well known poet Shri Ramdarash Mishra. Rajiv Krishna Saxena आप आये पास तो अच्छा लगा आज धरती पर झुका आकाश तो अच्छा लगा, सिर किये ऊँचा खड़ी है घास तो अच्छा लगा। …

Here is about innocence of early youth that should be allowed to stay just as such for some more time. A very pretty little girl, too young to enter the emotional minefield of love. See how Bharati Ji describes it. Rajiv Krishna Saxena अभी न सीखो प्यार यह पान फूल …

Here is some philosophy of life from Dinesh Mishra. Third stanza shows how we unnecessarily get scared at times. Last stanza is my favorite. We accumulate so much experience through out the life, but the life ends before we get to test what we have learnt – Rajiv Krishna Saxena …

You may have heard that song filmed on Amitabh Bachchan – “Apni to jaise taise, thodi aise ya vaise, kat jaayegee – aapka kya hoga janaabe aali”. This poem has similar sentiments of a detached soul not too interested in this world. Rajiv Krishna Saxena आँचल बुनते रह जाओगे मैं …

Who wants to sleep on the footpath? Yet out of sheer helplessness, millions do. On a hot summer night, how uncomfortable and frustrating it should be to sleep on stones and gravel. This precious poem by Kaifi Azmi captures the frustration and its essence. It traces human evolution from animals …

In todays world, rather than being an integrated social being, man is more of an individual who is supposed to increasingly use his mind and find his own path. While this change has made him in-charge of his own life, it has also made him lonelier. This gets increasingly reflected …

It is the law of nature, when some one rises; it is on the cost of some one else. As the world rushes to felicitate and welcome the victor, the vanquished is forgotten. A beautiful poem indeed. आ रही रवि की सवारी नव-किरण का रथ सजा है, कलि-कुसुम से पथ …

Innocence and humanity of village societies is distinct from the clever selfishness of cities. Here is a nice poem by Kunwar Bechain depicting this fact. Rajiv Krishna Saxena अंतर मीठापन जो लाया था मैं गाँव से कुछ दिन शहर रहा अब कड़वी ककड़ी है। तब तो नंगे पाँव धूप में …

“Haril” is a bird that always keep clutching a wooden twig and never leaves it. This is a metaphore of strong attachments we develop in the life to worldly wealth and events. Worldly events however are beyond our control and we invariably age as we experience the life. The wealth …