Life And Time Poems

In youth we remain so busy in making careers, building houses, raising children, living a life etc. There is no spare time. Later in life when children have grown and left and career considerations dwindled, there is suddenly nothing much left to do and that motivation to “achieve” dwindles. A …

Bal Swarup Rahi is one of my favorite poets. Here is a poem that is a realistic advisory for living a life. Rajiv Krishna Saxena अक्ल कहती है अक्ल कहती है, सयानों से बनाए रखना दिल ये कहता है, दीवानों से बनाए रखना लोग टिकने नहीं देते हैं कभी चोटी …

[learn_more caption=”Introduction: See more”]In early summer, fields are empty and dried leaves fallen from trees fly all over in warm wind. Poet presents a shabda-chitra and likens the scene to the loneliness in life. Rajiv Krishna Saxena[/learn_more] जिंदगी बदल रही है जब मैं छोटा था दुनियाँ शायद बहुत बड़ी हुआ …

End of the year 2016 was rather unusual. Demonetization of high value notes brought tough times for all. However, common people in general were convinced that these hard times would usher in a better future. There were lots of expectations from the emerging leadership of Modi Ji! Here are few …

Here is the latest and rather realistic report of the country from the pen of Acharya Bhagwat Dube. Rajiv Krishna Saxena राष्ट्र की रपट नेतृत्व गया है भटक  बंधु क्या लिखूँ राष्ट्र की रपट बंधु कशमीर, आंध्र, आसाम सहित जलते हैं केरल, कटक बंधु सूखे चेहरे कुटियाओं के महलों की …

Youth has so many dreams and aspirations… Life however takes its own course and age marches menacingly on us every moment. As we hit middle age, dreams remain unfulfilled even as dwindling courage forces us to bury those dreams and ideologies in the deep gorge of inaction… Rajiv Krishna Saxena …

Most of our lives are spent in doing routine things. Some times we desperately feel that the routine should break and some thing exiting should happen… Here is a famous poem of Gopal Singh Nepali – Rajiv Krishna Saxena कुछ ऐसा खेल रचो साथी कुछ ऐसा खेल रचो साथी कुछ …

Some times, a very empathetic and persistent enquiry from someone very close, moves one to tears. Here is a lovely poem by Balkrishna Rao. Rajiv Krishna Saxena उत्तर न होगा वह कोई दुख नया नहीं है सच मानो, कुछ भी नहीं है नया कोई टीस, कोई व्यथा, कोई दाह कुछ …

Here is an excerpt from the classic epic Bharat-Bharti written by Rashtra Kavi Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886-1964). The topic is very contemporary as beef eating is being discussed extensively these days. The poem is very moving and in a way argues against killing of defense-less animals by all powerful humans …

It is amazing how some people derive pleasure from sabotaging or spoiling things for others without any reason. But when the wisdom dawns, we tend to take even such people in stride and forgive them. All human beings are after all creatures of circumstances and they do what they must …