Category: Poetry

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 “~ Invisible Prison… ~”.  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.) 

“The subtlest prisons are the ones

we build within ourselves!”

~ Invisible Prison… ~ 

☆

Invisible bars confine the soul

forged not of iron

but of mental arrest

Dreams are auctioned

in the marketplace of survival

freedom a fragile castle of cards

sold in the name of prosperity

The world performs its rehearsed despair

Roles carved in stealth and chicane

Scripts inked in deviousness

Every man a puppet

dangling by threads

woven from falsehood and desultory dreams

We kneel before the human gods we invented

Commerce, conformity, comfort —

our holy trinity of decay

Yet somewhere, in the marrow of silence

a pulse remembers the wind

A spark refuses to die

The spirit aches to break form

to unlearn

to unchain

to become

to erupt

to fly beyond horizons

Walls dissolve into air

chains melt into starlight

and even the idea of freedom

bows in awe before the unleashed soul

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

Poet’s Note

“Invisible Prison” is a hymn to the human spirit —a warning, a rebellion, a revelation. The cages are not made of stone or iron but of fear, habit, and false gods. Freedom awakens when the soul recognizes the bars were never real…!

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 © 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 Sacred Churning… ~”.  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.) 

~ The Sacred Churning… ~ 

☆

 On this side, the unknown devils

On that side the divine beings

Yet both remain unknown

*

No celestial mountain to anchor

No serpent-rope to girdle

the churner of my inner world

*

And still, with an impassioned,

unguarded heart, I keep churning

the vast ocean of my being…

*

From hidden, unfathomable depths

rise ancient, enigmatic truths—

long-silent, dormant energies

oozing forth in mystic spirals

*

For within every surge, every pull

I sense the eternal promise of

that radiant drop of proverbial

nectar of becoming immortal…!

☆

~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © 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 Voiced… ~”.  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.) 

~ The Voiced… ~ 

☆

We were one —

beyond breath, beyond sound —

where silence was our only language

We spoke in stillness,

our souls adrift,

caressing each other astrally

in a formless communion

No words were needed —

a thought was enough

to echo through eternities

Then she wished to speak…

to clothe the infinite in words,

to bind the sacred in sound

My ageless silence,

preserved through epochs,

was wounded at length —

and the silence bled

For love, once divine,

must die a little

the moment it transforms

into human chatter —

turning the sacred to mundane,

diluting the cosmic

into earthy cacophony

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(Inspired by Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj Ji’s poem मुखर) 

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

~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM