English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Ode of the Yore… – ☆ 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 ~ Ode of the Yore… ~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.  

☆ Ode of the Yore…  ☆

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The river keeps flowing in

the quietitude of the fields

But the stones and  rocks

chatter incessantly with it

* 

A cool breeze does blow over

the flow of this raging river.

Boat may  be  dilapidated,

but it still braves the waves…

 *

O’ friends! Do gratify with

a  spark  from  somewhere,

This age-old lamp still has

unburnt wick soaked in oil…

 *

Like  the heart  of  the ruins,

-a silent witness of the time,

Its pain may appear mute,

yet it chimes sombre melodies

 *

Though  the dusk spreads a

sheet of darkness over the town

But still  this mystical dark

road leads to the bright dawn

 *

Now, there’s no grudge left

in the name of melancholy

As  it  keeps humming the

immortal  odes  of the yore…

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