कुछ संबंध ऐसे होते हैं,जो चहरों से चहरों तक होते हैं...
वो
दो अर्थहीन मुस्कानों पर
टिके रहते हैं...
और एक दिन
मुस्कानों के मिटने पर...
चहरे की मुर्दा
सिलवटों में
दफन हो जाते हैं....
- July 1, 1980, Bhopal
Just a space for my general musings, observations, and take on everything in general, and nothing in particular...
Even though, since those 30-odd years, when I wrote these lines... I have been able to convert some of these counterfeit coins into cherished memories of life (if not dreams)...
I am generally suspicious of the various "Day's", which have suddenly cropped up in the modern urban life - Valentine's Day, Friendship Day, Father's Day, Sister's Day, Akshay Tritiya.... the list is never-ending (even though some have vague historical antecedents).
It rained this evening, with incessant thunder-storm and lightening...
I remember,
It is raining outside.
नहीं कोई व्यथा, लेकिन भटकता घूमता है मन,
10-years after he wrote this poem in 1964, some quirk of fate introduced me to Yevgeny Yevtushenko.... his only poem I know about...
Those were the days, when one lived (and discovered life) through songs, poems and stray comments/ quotes and phrases...
a fable I read long time back - and still remember...
Bal Swarup "Rahi" used to be my "resident poet" - someone with whom I could resonate, and who would articulate what I could not then (that's back in the early '70s)... ...some of his verses I (re-)discovered today:
दोपहर-रात, ये सुबह-शाम
सभी जो साथ थे वो पा गए अपने किनारों को,
आह! चंचल काल का पग,