Turning unreasonable anxiety into unlikely ideas

Category: poetry

Sweater

Sweater

स्वेटर

तुम्हारे हाँथ का बुना स्वेटर तो नही, याद दिलाती हुई सर्द हवाएं हैं यहाँ
ठण्ड लगती है हाँथ पाव में हथेली मल लेता हूँ, पाँव को मनाना पड़ता है

अखबार नही मकानों के इश्तेहार हैं, कई घरों की खबर छुप जाती है इनमे
मैं तसल्ली के लिए अपने शहर के मौसम का हाल पढ़ लेता हूँ

एक नया दोस्त बना है मेरा शायद कभी तारों, कभी बादल संग दिखता है
लोगों की ज़बान कुछ अलग है यहाँ, दिन में चिड़िया शाम झींगर सुन लेता हूँ

जब रात को नींद न आये तो बाँध मुट्ठी, तकिये में दबा लेता हूँ
बाँटा है मैदान नुकीले तारों से जिसने, उस चेहरे पे तस्सली ढूँढ लेता हूँ


Talcum Dove

Talcom Dove

He ran away from school,
Red-faced like the result.
It never was the failure
But weariness of insult.

When he rushed inside,
His mother began to cook.
For a sweet smell in air,
She stepped out to look.

Walking towards his room,
She stopped at the door.
Talcum from her dresser,
Now covered all the floor.

To avoid eye contact,
Through mirror, he looked.
Shocked by powder puff,
Silently waiting, she stood.

“You failed another test!”
“Even dove you couldn’t spell?”
She hoped to see his best,
With anger now she swell.

Invisible under the talcum,
was a paper on the floor
deftly cut into a figure
whose spelling he wasn’t sure

Holding it by two corners,
With fingers small as rhyme
Out came a shape whose edges
Were as crisp as sunshine.

Without a haste he hove,
The cutout of talcum dove.

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