Nostalgia Poems

दीवाली आने वाली है मानसून काफूर हो गया रावण का भी दहन हो गया ठंडी–ठंडी हवा चली है मतवाली अब गली–गली है पापा, मम्मी, भैय्या, भाभी बूआ, चाचा, दादा, दादी राह सभी तकते हैं मिल कर हर मन को भाने वाली है दीवाली आने वाली है चॉकलेट को छोड़ो भाई …

Here is another poem of nostalgia. Noatalgia about the village life where the author must have spent his childhood. Many readers would identify with the feelings. Rajiv Krishna Saxena मेरा गाँव वो पनघट पे जमघट‚ वो सखियों की बातें वो सोने के दिन और चाँदी–सी रातें वो सावन की रिमझिम‚ …

There is always nostalgia about the country we left long ago. Even as we wade our way through alien society and land, heart often pines for good old Home. Here is a poem of this nostalgia from Ramdhari Singh Dinkar – Rajiv Krishna Saxena रे प्रवासी जाग रे प्रवासी‚ जाग‚ …

One more day has passed. Did it add some thing or took away some thing from the enigma that life is? How do we, or can we really evaluate any day? A lovely poem by Ramdarash Mishra Ji. – Rajiv Krishna Saxena यह भी दिन बीत गया यह भी दिन …

Here is a simple dream described by Girija Kumar Mathur; and everyone would like to own this dream as their own! If only it can be realized… Rajiv Krishna Saxena मेरे सपने बहुत नहीं हैं मेरे सपने बहुत नहीं हैं छोटी सी अपनी दुनिया हो, दो उजले–उजले से कमरे जगने …

Little girls are like angles. They live in their own world of stuffed toys and fantasy. Then they grow up… and one day leave the house. Stuffed toys they once played with, are left behind, a constant reminder to parents of their little daughter. Rajiv Krishna Saxena दीदी का भालू …

These days no one write letters. In past-years, people wrote letters and the receivers preserved those letters, at times for life. Those old preserved letters were magic and the following lovely poem tells us why. Rajiv Krishna Saxena पुराने पत्र हर पुराना पत्र सौ–सौ यादगारों का पिटारा खोलता है। मीत …

Here is a lovely poem about a family missing their son that many readers may identify with. Poem is written by the son (Bhawani) who left home for studies / work. Here on a rainy day, Bhawani sorely misses home and imagines how his father, mother, brothers ands sisters too …

                         रिम झिम बरस रहा है पानी गड़ गड़ गड़ गड़ गरज गरज घन    चम चम चमक बिजुरिया के संग ढम ढम ढम ढम पिटा ढिंढोरा झूम उठा सारा जन जीवन उमड़ घुमड़ कर मेघों नें अब आंधी …

Atal Ji’s poems have deep roots in the India tradition. Here is one that describes a typical rural Indian house hold of the yester years. It is a picture that we are sadly losing rapidly under the pressure of “modernization” – Rajiv Krishna Saxena आओ मन की गांठें खोलें यमुना …