English Literature – Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 39 – Providence…. ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem Providence…. .  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 39

☆ Providence…. ☆

You are just a straw

Floating with the gush of wind,

Going wherever destiny takes you.

 

Your finiteness

In the vastness of infiniteness

Is just an illusion

Making you falsely fantasise your worth.

 

Your knowledge, wisdom or health

May only give you inner strength

To dree the inevitable,

Your faith, commitment and character

May make you prudent

To face the inexorable;

But your path still remains undefined,

You still remain weightless

In the entirety of the universe.

 

The flow of life,

Depends not upon the straw,

But the wind that carries it.

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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English Literature – Poetry ☆ Anonymous litterateur of Social Media# 8 ☆ गुमनाम साहित्यकारों की कालजयी रचनाओं का भावानुवाद ☆ कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी, एन एम्

कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी, एन एम्

(हम कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी जी द्वारा ई-अभिव्यक्ति के साथ उनकी साहित्यिक और कला कृतियों को साझा करने के लिए उनके बेहद आभारी हैं। आईआईएम अहमदाबाद के पूर्व छात्र कैप्टन प्रवीण जी ने विभिन्न मोर्चों पर अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर एवं राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर देश की सेवा की है। वर्तमान में सी-डैक के आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस और एचपीसी ग्रुप में वरिष्ठ सलाहकार के रूप में कार्यरत हैं साथ ही विभिन्न राष्ट्र स्तरीय परियोजनाओं में शामिल हैं।

स्मरणीय हो कि विगत 9-11 जनवरी  2020 को  आयोजित अंतरराष्ट्रीय  हिंदी सम्मलेन,नई दिल्ली  में  कैप्टन  प्रवीण रघुवंशी जी  को  “भाषा और अनुवाद पर केंद्रित सत्र “की अध्यक्षता  का अवसर भी प्राप्त हुआ। यह सम्मलेन इंद्रप्रस्थ महिला महाविद्यालय, दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय द्वारा न्यूयॉर्क विश्वविद्यालय, दक्षिण एशियाई भाषा कार्यक्रम तथा कोलंबिया विश्वविद्यालय, हिंदी उर्दू भाषा के कार्यक्रम के सहयोग से आयोजित  किया गया था। इस  सम्बन्ध में आप विस्तार से निम्न लिंक पर क्लिक कर पढ़ सकते हैं :

हिंदी साहित्य – आलेख ☆ अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हिंदी सम्मेलन ☆ कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी, एन एम्

☆ Anonymous Litterateur of Social Media # 8/सोशल मीडिया के गुमनाम साहित्यकार # 8 ☆ 

आज सोशल मीडिया गुमनाम साहित्यकारों के अतिसुन्दर साहित्य से भरा हुआ है। प्रतिदिन हमें अपने व्हाट्सप्प / फेसबुक / ट्विटर / यूअर कोट्स / इंस्टाग्राम आदि पर हमारे मित्र न जाने कितने गुमनाम साहित्यकारों के साहित्य की विभिन्न विधाओं की ख़ूबसूरत रचनाएँ साझा करते हैं। कई  रचनाओं के साथ मूल साहित्यकार का नाम होता है और अक्सर अधिकतर रचनाओं के साथ में उनके मूल साहित्यकार का नाम ही नहीं होता। कुछ साहित्यकार ऐसी रचनाओं को अपने नाम से प्रकाशित करते हैं जो कि उन साहित्यकारों के श्रम एवं कार्य के साथ अन्याय है। हम ऐसे साहित्यकारों  के श्रम एवं कार्य का सम्मान करते हैं और उनके कार्य को उनका नाम देना चाहते हैं।

सी-डैक के आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस और एचपीसी ग्रुप में वरिष्ठ सलाहकार तथा हिंदी, संस्कृत, उर्दू एवं अंग्रेजी भाषाओँ में प्रवीण  कैप्टन  प्रवीण रघुवंशी जी ने  ऐसे अनाम साहित्यकारों की  असंख्य रचनाओं  का कठिन परिश्रम कर अंग्रेजी भावानुवाद  किया है। यह एक विशद शोध कार्य है  जिसमें उन्होंने अपनी पूरी ऊर्जा लगा दी है। 

इन्हें हम अपने पाठकों से साझा करने का प्रयास कर रहे हैं । उन्होंने पाठकों एवं उन अनाम साहित्यकारों से अनुरोध किया है कि कृपया सामने आएं और ऐसे अनाम रचनाकारों की रचनाओं को उनका अपना नाम दें। 

कैप्टन  प्रवीण रघुवंशी जी ने भगीरथ परिश्रम किया है और इसके लिए उन्हें साधुवाद। वे इस अनुष्ठान का श्रेय  वे अपने फौजी मित्रों को दे रहे हैं।  जहाँ नौसेना मैडल से सम्मानित कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी सूत्रधार हैं, वहीं कर्नल हर्ष वर्धन शर्मा, कर्नल अखिल साह, कर्नल दिलीप शर्मा और कर्नल जयंत खड़लीकर के योगदान से यह अनुष्ठान अंकुरित व पल्लवित हो रहा है। ये सभी हमारे देश के तीनों सेनाध्यक्षों के कोर्स मेट हैं। जो ना सिर्फ देश के प्रति समर्पित हैं अपितु स्वयं में उच्च कोटि के लेखक व कवि भी हैं। वे स्वान्तः सुखाय लेखन तो करते ही हैं और साथ में रचनायें भी साझा करते हैं।

☆ गुमनाम साहित्यकार की कालजयी  रचनाओं का अंग्रेजी भावानुवाद ☆

(अनाम साहित्यकारों  के शेर / शायरियां / मुक्तकों का अंग्रेजी भावानुवाद)

 

कौन कहता है कि

दिल सिर्फ सीने में होता है…

तुमको लिखूँ तो

मेरी उँगलियाँ भी धड़कती हैं…

 

 Who says that

 Heart is in chest only

 My fingers also throb

 When I write to you…!

❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃

 

गर यूँही घर में बैठा रहा

मार डालेगी तनहाइयाँ…

चल चलें मैखाने में जरा

ये फ़ना दिल बहल जायेगा…

 

If I keep staying at home like this

The aloofness is going to  kill me

O’ dear  let’s  just  go to the bar…

This dying heart will come alive!

❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃

 

इक किस्सा अधूरे इश्क़ का

आज भी है दरम्यान तेरे मेरे…

हैं मौजूद साहिलों की रेत पे

पैरों के कुछ निशान तेरे मेरे…

 

A tale of inconclusive love still

exists between us, even today…

Few of our footprints are still

Present on the sand of shores…

❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃

 

मरता तो कोई नही

किसी के प्यार में…

बस यादें कत्ल करती

रहती है किश्तों-किश्तों में…

 

Nobody ever dies in

someone’s  love…

In installments just the

Memories  keep killing you…

❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃ ❃

 

© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 38 – Metamorphosis ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Metamorphosis.  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 38

☆ Metamorphosis ☆

When the hard-hearted Westerlies blow

In the icy cold veins,

The blood vessels get choked,

The stony heart stops beating,

And the feelings coagulate into fossil stones!

 

You go into deep sleep,

You hardly breathe

And your survival is a story of disbelief!

 

However,

When you start breathing again,

So happy you are to feel the sunrays

That you turn into a yellow blossom,

A fragrance permeates the being

And you glow like diamond!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 37 – Masks ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem Masks.  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 37

☆ Masks ☆

I often look at them in awe

And my heart admires the men and women

Who can remain happily

With a mask on their faces!

 

I’ve tried so many times

To put on these masks of pretense;

But have failed miserably

As it falls down so easily!

 

These masked people,

Strong and resilient,

Hold on to them

Even under the most precarious situations,

Are at ease even while stabbing

Their innocent preys

And enjoy the helplessness

On their victim’s face!

 

I admire them for their grit

At going against their conscious’s voice;

I wonder how they are so strong,

May God give them the courage

To face the ultimate truth

Of karma!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 35 – Love  Lost ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem Love  Lost.  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 35

☆ Love  Lost ☆

(Dedicated to all those who suffer from ALZEIHMERS)

 

Oh Monu!

I heard someone calling an elderly man

By your name

And I was so annoyed!

 

Monu is ‘your’ name

Given to you by me so lovingly

And it shall remain so!

 

A gentleman came to me yesterday

And addressing me as “Sweetheart!”

Said,

“You are forgetting.

Monu has grown old!”

 

How silly was he!

How can I forget my only child?

 

This gentleman-

He troubles me a lot, Monu!

He makes me wear sweaters

When I feel warm

And want to wear skirts!

He says that I have never worn skirts!

So stupid! Isn’t he?

 

Oh, Monu!

Where are you?

Please, please come back

Into my arms

I want to kiss you, cuddle you!

 

Look that gentleman is again shouting

And wants me to prepare tea!

Can you imagine? Tea!

Have I ever made tea?

You explain him please

And let me sleep

For now!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 34 – Love ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Love.  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 34

☆ Love ☆

I take a stroll

In the buoyant garden nearby,

The fragrance makes me feel

Unsullied and fresh,

The hues around me

Give my heart a dazzling happiness,

I glance at the barrel cactus

Placed near the hedge,

It smiles in full bloom,

I grin back

At the flamboyant red of its flowers

Which look vivacious, vibrant…

 

Who can imagine

That a cactus will blossom

When one looks at its prickly thorns?

It’s the sun’s love

That gives it an intriguing glow

On its arid cheeks…

 

Life is certainly more

Than the panch tatvas;

While they make the body,

It’s love that makes life worth living!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 33 – Loneliness ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Loneliness.  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 33

☆ Loneliness ☆

 

Have your friends forsaken you?

Have your dear ones

Left you and are gone

Far far away

As overripe memories of yesterday?

Do your eyes trickle down

The pain through their tears?

Do the fond remembrances

Make your knees go weak?

Are you lonely

My dear friend?

 

You are in despairing desire

Of yourself;

Please go

And shake hands with you,

A hug might help too!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 32 – Kindness ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Kindness .  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 32

☆ Kindness ☆

Kindness is an art

You were born with,

It was tattooed all over

On your nascent body;

After all, you were a child of grief!

 

There was so much

Heartlessness around,

That you kept rinsing

Your body with cheesy dips

Of kindness!

 

You will die

On the pyre of kindness,

Life has after all

Treated you with so much of callousness

That it needs to be balanced!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 31 – Helplessness ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is  an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem Helplessness.  This poem  is from her book “The Frozen Evenings”.)

☆ Weekly column  Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 31

☆ Helplessness ☆

There are those edgy instants

When you become a heated oven

And tiny grains of excruciating anger puff up,

They hit the grey steel walls

Of the ventricles of your heart

With high velocity,

Making you lose your steadiness.

 

Before those tender grains

Flare up like pale yellow popcorns,

It’s better to freeze them

In the refrigerator of time.

 

After some point,

When you take out those icy grains,

You expect them to cool your being…

 

Unfortunately,

They blue-pencil the white ribs

Surrounding the heart

With a razor like sharpness!

 

© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

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English Literature ☆ Weekly Column – Abhivyakti # 12 ☆ The Market of Life! ☆ Hemant Bawankar

Hemant Bawankar

(All of the literature written by me was for self satisfaction. Now I started sharing them with you all. Every person has two characters. One is visible and another is invisible. This poem shows us mirror.  Today, I present my poem ‘The Market of Life! ’. This poem has been cited from my book “The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.))

My introduction is available on following links.

☆ Weekly Column – Abhivyakti # 12 

☆ The Market of Life! ☆

The world

is a market of life!

 

New lives

born to sell.

Old lives

destroyed and thrown

away

from the throne.

 

None knows

the mentality of ones.

 

Some say

old is gold

some say

new to sold.

 

Requirement of new

was too much

so they purchased me

fully

when I was new.

 

Now,

I am feeling

I have nothing of mine.

Body and soul;

thoughts and mind;

pulse and heart;

each and everything

is of customer

My Master!

My Lord!

My God!

and… his highness!

 

I’m sold

thus

I’m soldier

… of LIFE!

 

© Hemant Bawankar, Pune

26th August 1977

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