Poems

Abdul Rahim Khankhana (1556-1627) was one of the nav-ratnas of Emperor Akabar. He was a great warrior as well as a poet. His dohas have important messages and a great deal of worldly wisdom. He also wrote many dohas in praise of Lord Krishna and Rama. Here is a sample …

Famous poet Bal Swaroop Rahi has written a large number of muktaks. Here are a few of them. Rajiv Krishna Saxena राही के मुक्तक मेरे आँसू तो किसी सीप का मोती न बने साथ मेरे न कभी आँख किसी की रोई ज़िन्दगी है इसकी न शिकायत मुझको गम तो इसका …

November here denotes the twilight of life. One remembers the by-gone love of yesteryears that was lost. What would she be doing, one wonders… The years would have aged her too. This bit by bit aging (til til kar pakna) would go-on till the end of life … beautifully stated …

Sometimes we get fed up with every thing in this world. Nothing matters any more. One tends to be indifferent to pleasure or pain at that time. Here is a nice poem by Thakur Gopal Sharan Singh. Rajiv Krishna Saxena मुझे अकेला ही रहने दो रहने दो मुझको निर्जन में …

Absolute beauty cannot be defined. It is in the eyes of the beholder. A time comes in the life of person when he discovers beauty followed by love. Poems praising the sweet-heart spontaneously arise in his heart at that time. Ashutosh Dwivedi’s poem tells about the beauty of the lovely …

Heart-break of losing the love of one’s life is unbearable, but if the loser is a poet, the verbalization of depression can be very eloquent. This is second poem of a set of two poems from Bal Swarup Rahi. In the first poem [click here to read], the poet was …

Remember your first love? Well, Bharti ji puts forward two points of view. Firstly every one forgets the first love as it is not very important. He also puts forward an alternative view point that no one ever forgets the first love. I leave the decision to the readers. Rajiv …

Fast changing social system and increasing complexity of modern life have bewildered the modern man. This feeling is reflected in contemporary modern poetry too. Here is a lovely poem expressing the rather undefined sense of being lost. The feeling that we don’t even know what we actually want in life… …

Dear readers, my mother Dr. Veerbala who was my inspiration and a great help in the editorial work for Geeta-Kavita, is no more. She was 79 years old but remained alert and intellectually active till her end came on Monday the 9th August 2010. The only sister of the famous …

It was in 1960s that I heard on Aakashvani radio, the so called “Tuktaks” written and recited by the well know poet Bharat Bhushan Agarwal. I could not locate them in print but some readers have occasionally written to me about presenting those tuktaks. I remembered four of them that …