Contemplation Poems

Veerbala Ji’s poems have that very familiar scent of earth. These precious poems appear to belong to an era where nature and feelings reigned supreme, without any encroachment of the modern world of artificiality. It is amazing how we feel so much at ease and close to ourselves in this …

Atal Ji’s poems have deep roots in the India tradition. Here is one that describes a typical rural Indian house hold of the yester years. It is a picture that we are sadly losing rapidly under the pressure of “modernization” – Rajiv Krishna Saxena आओ मन की गांठें खोलें यमुना …

Love requires great deal of efforts and full involvement. It exhausts the lovers. Then if one has to go through the whole process again! It is very difficult to revisit the old lanes and by lanes of love. Rajiv Krishna Saxena कैसे भेंट तुम्हारी ले लूँ कैसे भेंट तुम्हारी ले …

We all miss our childhood. That carefree time of fun without worries never returns. We are for ever stuck with the grown up world of endless worries, apprehensions and ambitions. Here is a very famous poem of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan about that lovely childhood –Rajiv Krishna Saxena मेरा नया बचपन …

Pain and desperation is the mother of creativity in literature. Nothing worthwhile is written if there in no restlessness behind it. Here is a beautiful poem by Ram Darash Mishra – Rajiv Krishna Saxena सूर्य ढलता ही नहीं है चाहता हूं‚ कुछ लिखूँ‚ पर कुछ निकलता ही नहीं है दोस्त‚ …

Kabir (1440AD to 1518AD) was one of the early saints of bhakti kaal who lived in northern India. By profession he was a weaver. He was a disciple of Guru Ramanand from southern India. He shunned religious affiliations and sang the glory of one God in vedanta as well as …

Many apprehensions in life are conditional, depending upon some basic premise and notions. Once the basic notions are discarded, the apprehensions vanish. Here is a lovely poem by Shri Krishna Tiwari. Tiwari Ji died last year (2013). Rajiv Krishna Saxena शीशे का घर जब तक यह शीशे का घर है …

Here is a lovely poem by Nida Fazali that makes so true comments on the journey of life. I specially like the first and the fourth stanzas. The first one shows how if we get what we desperately want from this life, it turns out to be essentially worthless. The …

Here is a famous composition of sant Kabir Das, a nirguni saint of 15th century, who lived in Banaras. In the present composition Kabir points out how fleeting the life is. Be it a prophet, a King, divine personalities, common people, doctor and patients, all eventually die. This is indeed …

Atal Ji’s famous  poem on his birthday!  Hindu thought and philosophy evolved over the Indian sub-continent over last thousands of years. It was the most liberal thought that allowed unfettered thinking and reasoning and was a natural precursor for true humanism. Hindu society assimilated whosoever reached India for shelter from …