English Literature – Poetry ☆ ‘Blazing Earth…’ ☆ 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 “~ Blazing Earth ~”.  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.)

~ Blazing Earth… ~ 

When the havoc of meteors unleashed,

every star in the sky made a hue & cry

Where would the birds fly around now

when daggers keep flying across the sky…

With demons occupying every branch,

Made the lustre of the buds vanish,

How dare you could even survive…?

Thus, the buds were ordered to banish…

Showering the flaming rays is the Sun.

As if the world is kept hostage by devil

Why is that the Sun keeps raining

its fiery embers with the intent evil

The sweet lakes got transformed into

reservoirs of salt, in billions of tonnes

The sandy soil creates a discord with the

fertile land, turning it into barren ones;

Space has been shouldering the brunt of

fallen satellites and their flying garbage

Heaven and earth lose their consciousness,

in an unprecedented disgust and outrage

Planet faces the worst ever crisis of era

Alas! But there’s nothing auspicious left

As the mountain of satellite trash, turns

into a towering inferno, with sense bereft…

What will the salty ocean change now,

as the rivers too have become a salty zone

Where’ve those bouncing streams of life

giving, perennial fresh water rivers gone?

The petals of passion, sadly wither away with

the gone memories of joy and amusement;

Roaming on summits, fairies used to dance

in their sheer ecstasy and endless merriment…

When would the flames of wrathfulness go away

from the stream of unprecedented sombreness…

When would the earth turn into a serene world,

But then who’s bothered to remove the sadness..

~Pravin