English Literature – Poetry ☆ A Spark Away… ☆ 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 “~ A Spark Away… ~”.  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.) 

~ A Spark Away… ~ 

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Seeing the brazenness of the world

Ask me not how am I coping…

I’m sitting on a pile of explosives

And every person is a live fuse..

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In a world that wears its

brazenness like sheep’s skin

Don’t ask me how have I

managed to cope within

*

As I sit on dynamite, a

precarious abode

Every other face a lit fuse,

waiting to explode

*

The air is charged with

tension’s spark

Each step a risk, each

word, charred dark

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The world all-around is

nothing but a volatile sea

I’m just desperately trying

to stay afloat and free

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Uncertainty rides the mind

with a heavy weight

A constant hum of a

potential dark fate

*

I’m navigating through

live wires and fire

Searching for a refuge a

place to peacefully retire

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In this fragile balance

I precariously stand

A single misstep could

explode the land

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Every moment, every day

a test of enduring will

A delicate dance on the

edge of a perilous hill

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM