Poems

As the sun sets and darkness prepares to engulf the world, a strange depression some times sets in our thoughts. In this lovely poem Maitreyee Ji has drawn a shabda chitra of this sense of restlessness. I first read this poem on the yahoo ekavita group – Rajiv Krishna Saxena …

Imagine two lovers sitting quietly. A girl’s  lovely feet are in the lap of the lover. Then let Bharati Ji recite the rest-Rajiv Krishna Saxena तुम्हारे पाँव मेरी गोद में ये शरद के चाँद से उजले धुले–से पांव, मेरी गोद में। ये लहर पर नाचते ताजे कमल की छांव, मेरी …

Saket is an epic that tells the story of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, who lived thousands of years ago and is considered to be an incarnation of Lord Vishnu by Hindus. Saket actually means Ayodhya. Different forms of verses in pure Hindi (Khadi Boli) have been used in this …

One of the very many small poems on everyday life by Shri Harivansh Rai Bachchan.  Rajiv Krishna Saxena साथी अंत दिवस का आया तरु पर लौट रहें हैं नभचर, लौट रहीं नौकाएँ तट पर, पश्चिम कि गोदी में रवी कि, श्रांत किरण ने आश्रय पाया साथी अंत दिवस का आया …

This great poem was written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and active political leader. Iqbal was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri brahmins but his grandfather Sahaj Ram Sapru, had to embrace Islam. In 1904, Iqbal, then a young lecturer at …

In this lovely poem Prabhakar Machway Ji has drawn a shabd-chitra of a blind beggar singing unmindful of the on-goings in the bazaar – Rajiv Krishna Saxena रेखा चित्र सांझ है धुंधली‚ खड़ी भारी पुलिया देख‚ गाता कोई बैठ वाँ‚ अन्ध भिखारी एक। दिल का विलकुल नेक है‚ करुण गीत …

Unfulfilled desires in our hearts do not let us live in peace and keep pocking us from inside. Bachchan found a very interesting metaphor in barking of dogs in the night. A lovely poem. Illustration by Garima Saxena – Rajiv K. Saxena रात रात भर श्वान भूकते पार नदी के …

A famous poem of Shri Harivansh Rai Bachchan. A row of birds fly during a storm (jhanjhawaat).  Rajiv Krishna Saxena प्रबल झंझावात साथी देह पर अधिकार हारे, विवशता से पर पसारे, करुण रव-रत पक्षियों की आ रही है पाँत, साथी! प्रबल झंझावात, साथी! शब्द ‘हरहर’, शब्द ‘मरमर’– तरु गिरे जड़ …

Destruction is necessary for new creation. Latter cannot happen in absence of the former. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, the celebrated, famous and path breaking Hindi poet here prays to the God of destruction. – Rajiv Krishna Saxena नाश देवता घोर धनुर्धर‚ बाण तुम्हारा सब प्राणों को पार करेगा‚ तेरी प्रत्यंचा का …

World loves you till the time you have some thing to give. After that you are forgotten. This bitter truth is described metaphorically in this lovely poem by Mahadevi Verma – Rajiv Krishna Saxena मुरझाया फूल था कली के रूप शैशव में‚ अहो सूखे सुमन हास्य करता था‚ खिलाती अंक …