COLLECTING THOUGHTS; WRITING POEMS; BREATHING LIFE INTO RACING TIME

Hello! It was fun to discover that I could actually write the thoughts that I had in Hindi in Hindi!! So I jotted down what I was then thinking into these lines and well, it was fun. And somewhere along the way I lost my train of thought and out slipped the poem!! Disaster. Although it is not the first time I have attempted writing in Hindi, I might need to keep working on Hindi grammer. Also, whenever I rethink on this topic, I will perhaps edit and re-publish this one again. So this one remains a thought-in-progress. मेरे घर का पौधा मुझसे कहता....... हर रोज़ गुज़र जाती मुँह मोड़ के यूँही न पानी, न ख़ुराक़ देती मुरझाए हुए को मुरझाया छोड़, ऐसे जैसे किसी और की हो ज़िम्मेदारी। बातें होती है, फ़िज़ाओं की दूर देश के हवाओं की मोह लेने वाले नज़ारों की हरी भरी नदियों की; क्या फायदा, अपने आँगन को सूना छोड़ पेैडो के छाओं पे मन ललचाने की।

I responded to a publication seeking poems on the the theme of 'Objects'. I sent a couple of poems. It has been a while since but nothing really came out of it. Sob! Sob! But of course, there is a really superior work happening these days and some poems are simply exemplary so I think I really need to work hard to stand any real chance.  Here are those two poems below. Enjoy, critique, laugh over, mull over or just simply read! Until the next post........... Dust In the seen and the unseen Lies this thin layer alongside, a part of our environment and mingled in our stride. It’s on my paintbrushes, On the painted sheets Reminding me of things to do And pictures I would never complete. It’s on the papers to be filed On the shelf where books look pretty On the paper with incomplete thoughts, that I hailed as poetry. On some memories most cherished, On relationships, casualties of misunderstandings, Inside closets with once-worn clothes On