English Literature – Poetry ☆ The Price of Smile… ☆ 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 Price of Smile… ~”.  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 Price of Smile… ~ 

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This habit of my smiling

proved far too dear—

They set me aside and forgot

salt of my silent tears

* 

I donned the mask to hide

the excruciating ache,

My fragile smile that

no mirror could break

 *

They saw only the glow

that my smile gave,

Not the somber heart

that cried in its cave

 *

In solitude, I searched

for a tender hand,

For a voice —that my

soul would understand

 *

But hope, like a mirage,

vanished from the sight,

Leaving me stranded in

the single, lonely light..!

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM