Frustration Poems

I have the greatest respect for people who earn their bread everyday. I mean the people like street hawkers, fruit and vegetable sellers and street jugglers and madaris. They have no idea what the day has in store for them and whether they would earn sufficient to feed their loved …

Most of our lives are spent in doing routine things. Some times we desperately feel that the routine should break and some thing exiting should happen… Here is a famous poem of Gopal Singh Nepali – Rajiv Krishna Saxena कुछ ऐसा खेल रचो साथी कुछ ऐसा खेल रचो साथी कुछ …

Here is a wonderful poem by Ram Avtar Tyagi. I see in it a plea for preservation of our culture and the frustration of the poet on the sad fact that it has become necessary to make such a plea – Rajiv Krishna Saxena जब मिलेगी रोशनी मुझसे मिलेगी इस …

It is amazing how some people derive pleasure from sabotaging or spoiling things for others without any reason. But when the wisdom dawns, we tend to take even such people in stride and forgive them. All human beings are after all creatures of circumstances and they do what they must …

There is a huge migration of rural folks to cities. Search of jobs make people leave their homes and culture and face all kinds of ordeals in alien lands. In the process they themselves undergo irreversible changes and are lost to villages for ever. Here is a touching poem by …

Unfulfilled desires in our hearts do not let us live in peace and keep pocking us from inside. Bachchan found a very interesting metaphor in barking of dogs in the night. A lovely poem. Illustration by Garima Saxena – Rajiv K. Saxena रात रात भर श्वान भूकते पार नदी के …

Mother is the dearest person in our lives. Here is the reaction of poet Prabhaker Machwe when he could not meet his mother as she died. Very moving. – Rajiv Krishna Saxena माता की मृत्यु पर माता! एक कलख है मन में‚ अंत समय में देख न पाया आत्मकीर के …

Some times the un-reciprocation of love results in its intensification. Here is a lovely poem by Rameshwar Shukla Anchal, that focuses on such feelings – Rajiv Krishna Saxena उतना तुम पर विश्वास बढ़ा बाहर के आंधी पानी से मन का तूफान कहीं बढ़कर‚ बाहर के सब आघातों से‚ मन का …

Love is not easy. Emotional turmoil and tiffs take their toll. Heightened sensitivity and expectations cause misunderstandings with which the lovers have to deal with constantly. Talking the problems over is not great help because language is too crude a medium to communicate feelings. Here are some suggestions… Rajiv Krishna …

Life is amazing. There are innumerable ways of living a life but we can follow only one. All other paths remain un-lived. Some times we may look wistfully at other paths and wonders how would it have been if we had followed those. Veerbala Ji says “I lived one truth …