English Literature – Poetry ☆ ~ Dogged Perseverance ~ ☆ 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 ‘Dogged Perseverance’ inspired and based on the poem ‘अनुभव’ written by Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj ji narrated in his article 👉‘संजय  उवाच – अनुभव’.  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.  

~ Dogged Perseverance ~ 

Had just walked a few steps only

but with the feet above the ground,

with a desire to grab the sky in my fist…

Suddenly-

The ground moved from below my feet

The height also started slipping rapidly,

The sky began to laugh at me

with an acrimonious sarcasm

I also began to feel embarrassed

being mocked at by the world,

But, here I am again-

With ‘Never say die’ attitude,

trying with all my indefatigable

strong willpower,

Such small is my fist,

and so big is the infinite sky…

But surprisingly-

This time the sky looks fearful,

Experience has opened up

myriad newer vistas of life,

Now I know victory is for sure

Because this time my steps

are not above the ground

but firmly grounded on it…!

~Pravin Raghuvanshi

© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM