English Literature – Poetry ☆ The Cremator… ☆ 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 “~ The Cremator… ~”.  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 this beautiful translation and his artwork.) 

~ The Cremator… ~ 

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 Composed mind, unshaken hands

with calming glance

Witnessing life’s gory scenes

and  cremation’s  dance

* 

 Cremating corpses, scattered bones

and flesh decays,

Yet  they  stand  unfazed, with

an equanimous gaze

*

Lamenting strangers surround,

yet they’re like kin,

Their hearts untouched and

souls unperturbed within

 *

Homeward  bound, they shed

their  solemn  guise,

And join  life’s  revelry, with

joyous, grinning  eyes

 *

 Fists clenched tight, we arrive

with hope and fear,

Empty-handed, we depart,

when death draws near

* 

They’ve seen it all, the birth,

the  death, the  strife

Yet in stillness, they manifest

liberation of the life..!

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The Cremator is inspired by Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj ji’s Hindi poem स्थितप्रज्ञ. Please click on the following link to read 👇

हिन्दी साहित्य – मनन चिंतन ☆ संजय दृष्टि – स्थितप्रज्ञ ☆ श्री संजय भारद्वाज ☆

~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM