Post-modern Poems

Encounter with beauty takes mind away from pain and anticipations start… Here is a poem by well known poet Gopi Krishan Gopesh. Rajiv Krishna Saxena रूप के बादल रूप के बादल यहाँ बरसे, कि यह मन हो गया गीला! चाँद–बदली में छिपा तो बहुत भाया ज्यों किसी को फिर किसी …

Here is a beautiful poem by Girija Kumar Mathur depicting the sense of failure that a man invariably feels at the end of his career.  It is very difficult to define a successful life. When a man looks back at his own life, it looks mediocre and unremarkable. Veer Savarkar …

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 …

Bible says that he who increases knowledge, increases sorrow. Faith in God is a great savior of humans and gives then courage to go through life. Post-modern man with his education and rational mind has lost this faith. Bereft of this faith, he is unable to find meaning in his …

Destruction is necessary for new creation. Latter cannot happen in absence of the former. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, the celebrated, famous and path breaking Hindi poet here prays to the God of destruction. – Rajiv Krishna Saxena नाश देवता घोर धनुर्धर‚ बाण तुम्हारा सब प्राणों को पार करेगा‚ तेरी प्रत्यंचा का …

At times life looks quite absurd and pointless. At those times, one feels trapped in existence and pines for a release. Here is an argument for escape at such times. Rajiv Krishna Saxena पलायन संगीत अनगिनित लोग हैं कार्यशील इस जग में अनगिनित लोग चलते जीवन के मग में अनगिनित …

Indian mind considers world as “Maya” or a sort of illusion. Once you realize this and consider yourself as an illusion living in the world of illusions, existential dilemma sets in and one feels utterly trapped and helpless. This feeling of being trapped is beautifully depicted here by Bharai Ji. …

Fast changing social system and increasing complexity of modern life have bewildered the modern man. This feeling is reflected in contemporary modern poetry too. Here is a lovely poem expressing the rather undefined sense of being lost. The feeling that we don’t even know what we actually want in life… …

We work so hard in life. Running tirelessly here and there, always busy, as if we are daily wage labourers hired by some master. What is the compulsion? Who is that master? Kunwar Narayan asks in this lovely poem. Rajiv Krishna Saxena काँधे धरी यह पालकी काँधे धरी यह पालकी, …

In ancient times, people moved by religious passion worked hard to carve out beautiful statues, temples and painted in caves. In this age of post-modernism, appreciation for such kind of passion is gradually getting lost. But what about this modern, senseless and destructive passion for wars, guns and building war …