Frustration Poems

राह कौन सी जाऊं मैं – अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी

There are dilemmas in life at every step. What to do? Which alternative to choose? And there are no authentic and correct answers. We must nonetheless make a choice. Rajiv Krishna Saxena राह कौन सी जाऊं मैं चौराहे पर लुटता चीर‚ प्यादे से पिट गया वजीर‚ चलूं आखिरी चाल कि …

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डर लगता है! – कुमार विश्वास

Kumar Vishwas on Kejriwal

Kumar Vishwas is a well-known contemporary Hindi poet. He was also a leader of AAP party of Delhi. His following poem seems to express his disillusion with the on-goings in AAP party lead by Arvind Kejriwal.  Poem itself is very good and reminded me of another nice poem on Geeta-Kavita …

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खून फिर खून है – साहिर लुधियानवी

Agitations and wars

Sahir Ludhianavi was born in 1921 in a Jamindar family in Ludhiana. He migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition but returned back to India since Pakistani Government had issued an arrest warrant in response to some of his writings. Back in India he received huge recognition for his …

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जैसे तुम सोच रहे साथी – विनोद श्रीवास्तव

Things are different than what you imagine

Living life appears very stressful and distressful at times. However in perspective things are never so bad or good as they appear. Rajiv Krishna Saxena जैसे तुम सोच रहे साथी   जैसे तुम सोच रहे वैसे आज़ाद नहीं हैं हम। पिंजरे जैसी इस दुनिया में पंछी जैसा ही रहना है …

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सूरज डूब चुका है – अजित कुमार

The sun sets on my life

In youth we remain so busy in making careers, building houses, raising children, living a life etc. There is no spare time. Later in life when children have grown and left and career considerations dwindled, there is suddenly nothing much left to do and that motivation to “achieve” dwindles. A …

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मैं फिर अकेला रह गया – दिनेश सिंह

Lonely again !

Someone leaves and someone is left behind lonely and crushed. Here is a lovely poem by Dinesh Singh. Rajiv Krishna Saxena मैं फिर अकेला रह गया   बीते दिसंबर तुम गए लेकर बरस के दिन नए पीछे पुराने साल का जर्जर किला था ढह गया मैं फिर अकेला रह गया …

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भई भाषण दो – गोपाल प्रसाद व्यास

Just talking serves no purpose. This is made amply clear in this satirical poem by Gopal Prasad Vyas. Rajiv Krishna Saxena भई भाषण दो  यदि दर्द पेट में होता हो या नन्हा–मुन्ना रोता हो या आंखों की बीमारी हो अथवा चढ़ रही तिजारी हो तो नहीं डाक्टरों पर जाओ वैद्यों …

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हम कबीर के वंशज – कुमार विश्वास

Kabir ke vansaj

Kumar Vishwas has emerged as a very popular Hindi poet who is also in politics. He often conveys his frustrations through his poems. His tussle with Aam Aadma Party, especially with the chief Arvind Kejariwal is often talked about and recently culminated in refusal to him of Rajya Sabha nomination …

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सयानी बिटिया – अशोक अंजुम

Sayanee bitiya

Here is a touching poem about a daughter. The realized and/or unrealized discrimination between sons and daughter comes in acute focus. – सयानी बिटिया जबसे हुई सयानी बिटिया भूली राजा-रानी बिटिया बाज़ारों में आते-जाते होती पानी-पानी बिटिया जाना तुझे पराये घर को मत कर यों मनमानी बिटिया किस घर को …

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जिन्दगी से बड़ी सज़ा ही नहीं- कृष्ण बिहारी नूर

Pata hi nahi

[learn_more caption=”Introduction: See more”]Some sher by Krishna Bihari Noor, that define the truth of this life and world in such simple words! – Rajiv Krishna Saxena[/learn_more] जिन्दगी से बड़ी सज़ा ही नहीं जिन्दगी से बड़ी सज़ा ही नहीं और क्या जुर्म है पता ही नहीं इतने हिस्सों में बँट गया …

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