Poems of Shyam Maharshi

 

2. GIRLS OF VILLAGE

On Shami tree

Growing in vicinity of village

Swing on swing

Sing songs

On ‘Sawani Teej’

Girls of village.

They have totally forgotten

For a short while

Making cow dung cakes

Sweeping house

Coating earthen stove

Making ‘Roti’

And milking cow

Girls of village.

With their friends

Totally absorbed

Discuss

Dance and hop

Return from fair

Relish Jalebis

 Girls of village.

In their eyes

Have blossomed

Vibgyor bloom

Flashing lightning

Down pouring clouds

In their heart

Sways

Zeal of happiness

Girls of village

Live their own self 

Many a times.

 

 I KNOW

I know very well

That I am

Just like you.

But

The only distinction

Between you and me is

That you are fraise

And myself foundation.

The whole world is acquainted

 With your pride and glory

But who listens to

My agony.

Everybody views you

But, I am foundation in this earth

Unfamiliar with all

Who knows me?

But this is a reality

You are fraise

On dint of me only

Because, I bear your utter burden

Your identity

Whole world

My identity

Dense dark life of

Deep earth.

 

 

Original poem in Rajasthani  : Shyam Maharshi ji

Translation into English         ;  Rajni Chhabra

1.  THIS LINE OF DESTINY

I am exhausted

Inscribing line of your name

On my palm

But fail to understand

Where I commit lapse

And this line of fate

Does not remain stable

On my rough palms

Now, you only guide me

My mate

How to write you

In my destiny?

2.AGONY OF REVERIES

Every time

With mention of your name

Wounds of my heart

Turn afresh

As if

Somebody has

Scratched sappy bruises

Abruptly due to rubbing it

Flows pain of reveries

Drenches, makes sticky

My eyes

My body and soul.

From utterly dry eyes

Starts flowing

Affection of gone days

Drainage of agony

Turns into gurgling streams

I bear

Overflow of your reveries

Innumerable, unfathomable

Still, I am at loss to know

Why this mind of mine

Is reluctant to obliterate you.

All preaching are in vain…..!

3.YOU WON’T UNDERSTAND 

When your name

Gets inscribed in my heart

You

Are personified

In cores of my heart

When I see droplets of water in your eyes

A full stream sways in my mind

You flaky

What will you understand?

When I scribble your name on paper

A song emerges

And echoing in my ears

Asks me

Why are you so annoyed

How to explain to you

Who does not like to live heartily?

 

 

4. FRAGRANCE OF REVERIES

I am submerged

In your reveries

So deeply

My beloved!

It is epochs

Since, I recalled myself.

 

 

5. SCARED 

Mind

Is scared

Abruptly

These days

Of expanse of silence

Lest

This world listens

Your name

Throbbing in my breath.

My English version of Rajasthani Poems of Ravi Purohit ji