English Literature – Poetry ☆ Heart, eyes, and tears… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

Hemant Bawankar

 

☆ Heart, eyes, and tears… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

These tears are surprising

which are very close to every heart.

 

There is a strange relationship

amongst heart, tears and eyes.

Even though,

staying away from the heart,

these are close to every heart.

 

By the way

Eyes cry many times in life.

Sometimes they cry in joy.

Sometimes they cry in sorrow.

Sometimes they cry when we are awake.

Sometimes they cry when we are asleep.

 

People Say –

the woman is so sensitive

having a source of tears in her eyes.

 

However,

I had seen him turning away,

and wiping his eyes

at the time of his wife’s adieu.

 

I had seen tears in his eyes

at adieu of

his sister

and daughter too.

 

I had seen tears in his eyes

even when, as a social responsibility

he brought one daughter from another home

with the feeling of adieu of

his sister

and daughter too.

 

I had still seen tears of joy in his eyes

when you had given presence

in your mother’s womb.

 

I had still seen tears of joy in his eyes

when he preached the good stories

when you were in the womb

so you may get lessons of life

to overcome the life’s trap.

 

I had seen tears of helplessness in his eyes

when he found himself constrained

to meet your urgent needs.

 

I had even seen tears in his eyes

when someone could not understand him

when someone could not honour

his feelings

his relationships.

 

I had still seen tears of joy in his eyes

when you moved ahead

to fight with life’s lessons

rejuvenating yourselves.

 

These tears are surprising

which are close to every heart.

 

There is a strange relationship

amongst heart, tears and eyes.

Even though,

staying away from the heart

these are close to every heart.

(This poem has been cited from my book The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.)

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Enigmatic Illusion… – ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem ~ Enigmatic Illusion… ~We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji, who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages for sharing this classic poem.  

☆ Enigmatic Illusion… ?

Apparently, life itself is an illusion…

–more realistic than the existence…

–a reflection of enigmatic virtual mind…!

Exposing man’s frailty and weaknesses,

falling for the detrimental effects

of luring tenacity of the ever-tempting illusion,

For, illusion knows no bounds,

swallowing the inherent vulnerability of

the human sensory impulses,

especially, targeting one’s eyes..

But, must not, one should blame the illusion,

Man treading cautiously and attempting

to complete the earthly sojourn,

must have strike a balance between the

illusionary senses and the stark ground realities.!

~ Pravin Raghuvanshi

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ Anonymous litterateur of Social Media # 177 ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain (IN) Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

? Anonymous Litterateur of Social Media # 177 (सोशल मीडिया के गुमनाम साहित्यकार # 177) ?

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi NM—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’. He is also the English Editor for the web magazine www.e-abhivyakti.com.  

Captain Raghuvanshi is also a littérateur par excellence. He is a prolific writer, poet and ‘Shayar’ himself and participates in literature fests and ‘Mushayaras’. He keeps participating in various language & literature fests, symposiums and workshops etc.

Recently, he played an active role in the ‘International Hindi Conference’ at New Delhi. He presided over the “Session Focused on Language and Translation” and also presented a research paper. The conference was organized by Delhi University in collaboration with New York University and Columbia University.

हिंदी साहित्य – आलेख ☆ अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हिंदी सम्मेलन ☆ कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी, एन एम्

In his Naval career, he was qualified to command all types of warships. He is also an aviator and a Sea Diver; and recipient of various awards including ‘Nao Sena Medal’ by the President of India, Prime Minister Awards and C-in-C Commendation. He has won many national and international awards.

He is also an IMM Ahmedabad alumnus.

His latest quest involves writing various books and translation work including over 100 Bollywood songs for various international forums as a mission for the enjoyment of the global viewers. Published various books and over 3000 poems, stories, blogs and other literary work at national and international level. Felicitated by numerous literary bodies..!

? English translation of Urdu poetry couplets of Anonymous litterateur of Social Media # 177 ?

☆☆☆☆☆

अधूरी कहानी पर ख़ामोश

लबों का पहरा है,

चोट रूह की है इसलिए

दर्द ज़रा गहरा है….🌺

☆☆

Guarded are the silent lips,

On  the  incomplete story…

Wound  is  of  the soul, so

The pain is rather intense….

☆☆☆☆☆

अधूरी कहानी पर ख़ामोश

लबों का पहरा है,

चोट रूह की है इसलिए

दर्द ज़रा गहरा है….🌺

☆☆

Silent lips are the sentinels,

Of  the  unfulfilled fairytale…

Wound is of the spirited soul

So, the pain is rather intense….

☆☆☆☆☆

हंसते हुए चेहरों को गमों से

आजाद ना समझो साहिब,

मुस्कुराहट की पनाहों में भी

हजारों  दर्द  छुपे होते  हैं…🌺

☆☆

O’ Dear, Don’t even consider that 

Laughing faces are free of sorrow,

Thousands  of  pains are  hidden 

Even behind the walls of a smile…

☆☆☆☆☆

चुपचाप चल रहे थे

ज़िन्दगी के सफर में

तुम पर नज़र क्या पड़ी

बस  गुमराह  हो  गए…

☆☆

Was walking peacefully

In  the  journey of the life

Just casting a glance on you

Made my journey go astray

☆☆☆☆☆

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ The Grey Lights# 36 – “Game” ☆ Shri Ashish Mulay ☆

Shri Ashish Mulay

? The Grey Lights# 36 ?

☆ – “Game” – ☆ Shri Ashish Mulay 

I have learnt to remain calm

but I am not silent

I have learnt to not talk

but I am making statement

with the experience comes the pain

but when goes the pain, wisdom is a gain

time has taught me

how the love fails

but moment has shown me

how the love gains

 *

despite the odds and injustice and battles

I have learnt to keep the heart alive

for life is a sea of uncertainty

where your ship gives a try

one beautiful evening

my ship will sink

and my heart will cease

but till then it shall beat

 *

that’s what being human is

to give always a try

Winning and loosing become illusions

as the game goes by

and what remains real

is the heart that gives a try…

© Shri Ashish Mulay

Sangli 

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Human-Snake… – ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem ~ Human-Snake… ~We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji, who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages for sharing this classic poem.  

☆ Human-Snake… ?

O’ dear Snake !

You haven’t even

become fully civilized-

You aren’t even

adept at city life…

Nor have you mastered

the guiles of city-norms…

 

May I ask you something?

Will you bother to answer?

Why haven’t  you got the

deadly  poison  as yet..?

Why haven’t you learnt

 to bite like humans, the way

they excel at backstabbing..?

 

~ Pravin Raghuvanshi

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ Time… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

Hemant Bawankar

☆ Time… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

People say –

time is a great ointment

that heals

large wounds.

 

However,

over the years

I don’t know

Why are not healing

my heart’s wound

why that drips

constantly ….

Is it so because?

I’m living

in present

with nostalgia

with the false expectation

that

sometimes

these wounds will be healed

that

were given by my loved ones

or

I had only ever given

to myself.

 

It is true that-

time never halts

it slips

like sand slips

from the fists

and

life does not happen again

still we watch dripping wounds

of loved ones

in relation to each other

even though

none raises their hands

to heal the lesions.

 

Maybe

all mouths are stitched

all hands are tied

with the ego that –

why should I be the first?

(This poem has been cited from my book The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.)

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Who will do then…? – ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem ~ Who will do then…?… ~We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji, who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages for sharing this classic poem.  

☆ Who will do then…? ?

Who will tend to the wounds of the

ones, who have been hit by the stones

Everyone will take away the fruits, but

Who’ll take care of the wounded trees?

*

Fire will neither favour you nor me,

Don’t fan it, fire never spares anyone

If my flaming house turns into ashes,

then who’ll be able to save your house?

*

Hide your craftily carved artifacts

in your bag and beat a hasty retreat

People are woefully blind here,

Nobody will see your artistic talent

*

Everyone is sitting so assuredly next

to their own water filled canals

Who will ever quench the thirst of

the millions of dying thirsty people?

*

When I reach home, everyone will

recklessly pounce to ransack my bag

Who will ever bother to see the dust

of the journey stinging in my eyes?

 

~ Pravin Raghuvanshi

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ War for… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

Hemant Bawankar

☆ War for… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆

I’m crawling

in the battlefield,

towards

widening jaws of death

ready to swallow me.

 

My heart is melting

with moans of wounded knights.

Lightening of shells

and

the thundering of bombs.

 

Instantaneous light smiles

incessant dark laughs

and

I’m hanging between them.

 

I’m feeling

What’s death?

Death is not so easy

as we think.

It’s far beyond

from imagination

and

at the point of

realism.

 

It is felt

once in a life.

 

Soul feeds

respiration and pulsation

to fulfil

the incessant hungry stomach

of wild death.

 

Those are lucky

who return

from jaws of death.

Their experiences and feelings

are far beyond

from our hypothesis.

 

Ah!

Oh! My God!

One more dead,

and one more will die;

may be me

or

yourself.

 

No;

I can’t fight

with life; for life

but,

I’ll not make

my hands up

I’ll wait

for death!

 

That dangerous death

in the lap of whose

thousands of knights slept

in battlefield

on the earth

vigorous than any world war

the life’s war!

11th August 1977

(This poem has been cited from my book The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.)

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Birth of a Poem… – ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem ~ Birth of a Poem… ~We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji, who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages for sharing this classic poem.  

☆ Birth of a Poem ?

The  hapless day,  when  the

heartful  writing  is not done,

Pen has not danced elatedly

on the mystic spotless paper,

Is a day utterly wasted with

the  night,  grimly  sleepless..!

 Until the effusive emotions

flow like mountainous river

Never  does  the  field  of

letters get fully soddened,

Soddened to get sown with

seeds to give birth to a poem..!

 

The pen has lightened the ever    

overpowering  worldly  anxieties,

How else, would I ever be able

to carry so much of cosmic burden             

Everyone may know how to read,

But may not, comprehend a poem!

 

~ Pravin Raghuvanshi

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Nostalgia… – ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem ~ Nostalgia… ~We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji, who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages for sharing this classic poem.  

☆ Nostalgia ?

The feeling of losing him

is still there, —fervently alive

Whatever happened,

shouldn’t  have happened,

this glumness is still there..!

 

Neither that roof exists there

nor is there that huge tree,

I probed into the reason for

falling of that snuggly tree…

 

Understandably,

the nostalgic memories

got better of him and

it uprooted itself…

 

When have the

results of war

ever been decided

in the battle field..?

 

Till the time,

pining memories

are simmeringly alive,

It wages on, ceaselessly…

 

Now, the only struggle left

is that of forgetting him

to cease the everlasting war..!

 

~ Pravin Raghuvanshi

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