Love Poems

Remembering the love of his life, here is a lovely poem of Kishan Saroj. Rajiv Krishna Saxena याद आये याद आये फिर तुम्हारे केश मन–भुवन में फिर अंधेरा हो गया पर्वतों का तन घटाओं ने छुआ, घाटियों का ब्याह फिर जल से हुआ; याद आये फिर तुम्हारे नैन, देह मछरी, …

Kumar Vishwas is an emerging political face in the country, but he is a popular poet before that. Here is one of his poems that depicts the frustration of love in a very Indian context. Rajiv Krishna Saxena उस पगली लड़की के बिन मावस कि काली रातों में, दिल का …

A woman is proud of her beauty but her lover is proud of his love and dedication to her. She is like the full moon but his feelings are like the perturbation in deep sea. This poem compares the two. Rajiv Krishna Saxena तुमको रुप का अभिमान तुमको रुप का …

Here is a lovely and romantic poem in praise of love. Enjoy the imagination of the poet. Rajiv Krishna Saxena तुम्हारी उम्र वासंती लिखी हे नाम यह किसके, तुम्हारी उम्र वासंती? अधर पर रेशमी बातें, नयन में मखमली सपने। लटें उन्मुक्त­सी होकर, लगीं ऊंचाइयाँ नपनें। शहर में हैं सभी निर्थन, …

Love that graced life is now gone but what does it still means to me? Here is a poem that has all the right metaphors. Rajiv Krishna Saxena तेरे बिन जैसे सूखा ताल बच रहे या कुछ कंकड़ या कुछ काई, जैसे धूल भरे मेले में चलने लगे साथ तन्हाई, …

This excerpt is from the famous epic “Urvashi” by Ramdhari Dinkar. Urvashi, the apsara is madly in love with the earth king “Pururava” to the extent that she wants to relocate from swarga to earth permanently and become an earth woman. Her friends Rambha, Sehjaney and Menaka are perplexed that …

I have often felt that the deep frustration and pining about lost love depicted in Urdu poetry, is rarely seen in Hindi poetry. The Muslim tradition of purdah made the mixing of boys and girls very difficult and that frustration perhaps gets reflected in Urdu poetry. In Hindu tradition, such …

Here is the utterings of a lovelorn man praising to sky the beauty of his love. Rajiv Krishna Saxena मेहंदी लगाया करो दूिधया हाथ में, चाँदनी रात में, बैठ कर यूँ न मेंहदी रचाया करो। और सुखाने के करके बहाने से तुम इस तरह चाँद को मत जलाया करो। जब …

Here is an excerpt from a poem expressing the wishes of a poor poet for his love on her birthday. Rajiv Krishna Saxena जनम दिन आज है तेरा जनम दिन, तेरी फुलबगिया में फूल एक और खिल गया है किसी माली का आज की रात तेरी उम्र के कच्चे घर …

Trying to suppress memories of lost love, while trying to adopt to a new pattern of life, should be very difficult. This poem describes the feeling. The internal turmoil simply would not let the sleep to take over. Rajiv Krishna Saxena जब नींद नहीं आती होगी क्या तुम भी सुधि …