English Literature – Poetry ☆ ‘Black bird…’ ☆ 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 an English Version of Ms. Nirupama Singh’s Hindi poem “~ काली चिड़िया ~”.  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.)

~ Black Bird… ~ 

A black bird

while flapping wings

Keeps banging its head

against the walls

Flying around vehemently

looking for shelter

I keep staring at her from

the comfort of my bed

Keep wondering

what is she looking for

Some place..? Some safety?

Now, that poor helpless bird

is not to be seen anymore

It may have gone away

Must have migrated

to a better environs

Listen, O’ dear black bird!

Must you grant me forgiveness

Come back if you can

I’ll plant some new trees for you

For you to make a nice cosy nest…

~Pravin