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 ...]

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.©

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.©

naisaiku week 15

[ echoes of indian poetry - 8]

" dekh to dil ke jaaN se uthta hai , yeh dhuaN-sa kahaaN se uthta hai " .. Meer Taqi Meer

where does it come from
is it from this life oh heart
SOARS SOMETHING SMOKEY
( oh heart , is my life burning )
something like smoke , soars..~ Meer Taqi Meer.

( Meer Taqi Meer..~ urdu poetry - legend )

/ naisaiku / translation / z.g.©


the children squabble
but patch up in a jiffy
THAT'S THE WAY TO GO
so patch up in a jiffy
squabble like children ..

/ naisaiku / original /z.g.©

yours truly

' friend '

your summer shelter
in the morning a tooth-brush
a disinfectant
that open-air village school
this simple neem tree ..

~ twaicoo- 42 /original/z.g.© .

aids

aids

she's a prostitute
and he is a truck-driver
on the road to AIDS
and richard gere plays his part
in aids-awareness ..

[ AIDS - india -richard gere-actor /

- prostitutes and truck-drivers are the high risk groups ]

~ twaicoo- 41 /original/z.g.© .

prison

' chains'

no more slavery
dreams were created equal
a maid servant toils
looks at the television
and feels like a slave ..

[ 2009 ad - india - the plight of maid servants is sad ]

~ twaicoo- 40 /original/z.g.© .