Monday, June 29, 2009

naisaiku week 19

[ echoes of indian poetry - 12]


badal kar fakiroN kaa ham bhes ghalib

tamaashaa-e-ahl-e-karam dekhte haiN.. ~ ghalib


[ Line 2 needs verification / another citation reads - 'tamaashaa-e-ahl-e-jahaaN dekhte haiN ' ]

watch the spectacles
of the graces of the world
GUISED AS A MINSTREL
of the world of the graces
watch the spectacles' ~ ghalib (~ urdu poetry - )


naisaiku / translation / z.g.©

you consume products
shadowed by advertisements
BECOME A SHADOW
haunted by advertisements
products consume you ..


/ naisaiku / original /z.g.©

Sunday, June 21, 2009

naisaiku week 18

[ echoes of indian poetry - 11]


" ogo nodi aapon bege pagol para
aami stobdho champar toru,
gondho bhore , tondra haara " ~ tagore r. n.


' lost unto yourself
like mad you flow oh river
A STILLED TREE AM I
the ' champa ' whose fragrance flows
but has lost its sleep `~ tagore


/ naisaiku / translation / z.g.©


sometimes you wonder
how yesterday got devoured
THAT IS HOW LIFE IS
devouring all yesterdays
you wonder sometimes ..

/ naisaiku / original /z.g.©

[Champa ~ Botanical name: Magnolia champaca Family: Magnoliaceae ...]

Saturday, June 13, 2009

naisaiku week 17

[ echoes of indian poetry - 10 ]


" maati kahe kumhar se tu kya raunde moye
ik din aisa aayega main raundungi toye " ~ kabir

[ kabir ~ devotional poet from medieval India - A.D . 1400 - 1500 approximately ]

you keep kneading me
says the clay to the potter
BUT THE DAY WILL COME
when i would be pounding you
and the day will come ~ kabir

/ naisaiku / translation / z.g. ©


elimination
a logic of existence
DARWIN IS LAUGHING
a logical existence
elimination ..

/ naisaiku / original /z.g.©

Thursday, June 4, 2009

naisaiku week 16

[ echoes of indian poetry - 9]


" Lagta NahiN Hai Dil Mera Ujde Dayar MeiN
Kiski Bani Hai Aalam-e-Napaidar Mein " ~ Bahadur Shah Zafar

have no more heart left
in this forlorn barrenness
BUT WHO HAD HIS WAY
in the momentariness
of this fragile world .. ~ Bahadur Shah Zafar

( zafar - urdu poetry )

[After a mock trial in Delhi in 1857-58 Bahadur Shah Zafar , the last Mughal Emperor of India, was exiled and banished to a prison in Rangoon Burma ( now Yangon ) by the British .. He died in jail and was buried there ]

/ naisaiku / translation / z.g.©

you got to survive
so you got to be living
GOT TO BE LOVING
so you got to be living
you got to survive ..

/ naisaiku / original /z.g.©