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Bahut saal pehle,
Hamaarey ghar ke chhote se aangan mein
Ek nanhee si pari rehtee thi.
Dan-danaati, cheh-chahaatee, dhoop bikhertee, hanstee muskuratee
Uskee kilkari se poora ghar mehakta tha.
Ek din dopahar ko doctor aaya,
Shaam ko kuch log usey chaadar main lapete khade they,
Agley roz maine usey khoob dhoondha,
Palang, mez, kursee kay neechey,
Almaaree kay andar, almaaree kay oopar, darwaaze kay peechey.
Kahin nahin milee, kisi ney bataaya bhagwaan kay ghar gayee hai.
Main uske aane ka intezaar karta raha,
Lambe safar ke har morh per mainey raah dekhi.
Koi nahi aaya.
Per ek sawal hai,
Kya yeh sach hai ki
Plnky mujhe dobaara kabhi nahin milee?
It touches me .... it really touches me very deeply
ReplyDeleteI dont know why blogger shows me as anonymous
ReplyDeleteTouched me in a way that's difficult to explain. Sumana.
ReplyDeleteWhen was it?
ReplyDeleteYou had me crying.
I was already upset over something else, and then this...
@ritu: Thanks, have conveyed your appreciation to the poet.
ReplyDelete@sumana: It is really very moving. The poet was glad to get your feedback.
@mampi- more than fifty years ago- he was maybe four years old, his little sister must have been 1 1/2 or so.
Don't cry, please, Mampi bahadur puttar:)
Very touching. All these li'l kid stories and poems these days affect me because of my new found mommyhood I guess. Sigh!
ReplyDeleteTo bring some cheer...Happy Puja and Bon Voyage :)
@cuckoo: Thanks! Happy Puja to you and your family:)
ReplyDeleteHi !! Have finally managed to access the net after ages a long time . Thanks for your comments. It seems that we have swapped cities !
ReplyDeleteVery moving. How upsetting it must have been.
ReplyDeleteHi ,
ReplyDeleteI was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be very good.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘of this and that’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too; and also let me tel u that this was one of the most touchy poems of my life....
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)
Cheers,
Oh my God! I read all the comments to check it means what I thought it does...touching and very sad.
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