English Literature – Poetry ☆ Fragility of Life… ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —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’.

We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Fragility of Life… ~”.  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) and his artwork.) 

~ Fragility of Life… ~ 

(Air India crash was really very sad and disturbing… Such incidents shake the inner self… A few verses emerged out of this melancholic tragedy…)

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In life’s fragile somber frame,

a shattering moment’s sway

Can shatter our frail destinies,

in the most unpredictable way

*

A vacation’s heavenly bliss,

Lost to terrorists’ cruel hand

Leaves innocent lives shattered,

in a far off unfamiliar land

*

A stadium’s roar, get crumpled

under a stampede’s deadly stride

Crushed lives, lie under a chaotic,

helter-skelter, panic ridden tide

*

A flight takes off with hundreds

onboard, having dreams galore

Crashes down in a jiffy, imperiled

in a fatal, unalarmed fiery eyesore

*

The students’ quiet hour, a cozy

Lunch break turning errant

Is ravaged by a plane’s weary

uncontrolled catastrophic descent

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A life’s unpredictable trajectory,

altered in a heartbeat’s space

Leaves the loved ones shattered,

in a grief-filled hapless place

*

Frangible life’s uncertain hours,

a fragile, flickering dying flame

Dances with fate, in a capricious

and unpredictable fatal game

*

One moment’s calm, the next,

a life threatening tempest’s rage

Leaves us breathless, on a huge

sorrowful, death-dealing stage

*

Yet, in the face of misfortune

and uncertainty’s darkest night

We find resilience, in God’s kind and

gracious yielding, the divine light

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM