Poems

There are problems all around, and frustrations. How do we cope with these? Here is a well know poem by Dushyant Kumar. Criticism of clandestine operations that straight persons are incapable of, in the last stanza is very beautifully put. Rajiv Krishna Saxena मत कहो आकाश में कोहरा घना है …

A really moving poem by the Sahitya Acadamy Award winning poetess Maha Shweta Devi, telling us the essential rules for going through life. – Rajiv Krishna Saxena आ गए तुम? आ गए तुम, द्वार खुला है अंदर आओ…! पर तनिक ठहरो, ड्योढ़ी पर पड़े पाएदान पर अपना अहं झाड़ आना…! …

Here is a funny poem from the veteran writer and hasya kavi Gopal Prasad Vyas, extolling the virtues of resting. The poem reminds us of the famous doha of Das Maluka that said Ajgar kare na chakari, panchhi kare na kaam, Das Maluka keh gaye, sabke daata Ram. Vyas Ji …

Many of us have grown up with this poem. It used to be so popular in the golden age of Aakash Vani and we often heard it in the voice of the poet himself. The nostalgia of riding a train, often pulled by a steam engine is strong with many …

Borders between nations are man-made. Nature however has no regards for these borders. Dinker Ji puts is very well in this poem. Rajiv Krishna Saxena पक्षी और बादल पक्षी और बादल ये भगवान के डाकिये हैं, जो एक महादेश से दूसरे महादेश को जाते हैं। हम तो समझ नहीं पाते …

Here is a beautiful poem by Girija Kumar Mathur depicting the sense of failure that a man invariably feels at the end of his career.  It is very difficult to define a successful life. When a man looks back at his own life, it looks mediocre and unremarkable. Veer Savarkar …

This realization dawns on most of us sooner or later. I couldn’t do much in life. Couldn’t achieve anything worthwhile. So much could be done. Here is a poem of Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Rajiv Krishna Saxena   मैं जीवन में कुछ न कर सका   मैं जीवन में कुछ न …

India has been through a phase of bad times for last few centuries. It was however not always so. Reading Bharat-Bharati by the Rashtra Kavi Maithli Sharan Gupt fills in all Indians a great deal of pride in our country, as it was in ancient times, and generates hope of …

Autumn arrives and Harivansh Rai Bachchan, the famous poet, draws a shabd-chitra. Also a metaphor for an old person reaching the end of life – Rajiv Krishna Saxena   है यह पतझड़ की शाम, सखे! नीलम-से पल्लव टूट ग‌ए, मरकत-से साथी छूट ग‌ए, अटके फिर भी दो पीत पात जीवन-डाली …

Life is short and expectations could be big. Real pain is felt if one knows that one deserves a much better deal, but is there any one out there who is listening to the silent pleas constantly emerging from your heart, and doing something about it? Or there is no …