GRASS AND WOMAN, TO BE ALONE ART; RAJASTHANI POEM BY SAPNA VERMA: ENGLISH TRANSVERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 GRASS AND WOMAN

A woman is like grass

Swaying and waving

Delicate and soft

Always keeps sticking 

To roots 

As soon as it tries to

Grow high

It is ripped

And again rooted in earth

She learns to live again 

All afresh

She abandons habit of

Swaying and waving

The more she flourishes

The more she is ripped 

The story is not that

She is personification of sacrifice

Special feature of her is that

In spite of being cut times again

She keeps sticking to roots

The woman

Who has capability of

Flourishing into a tree

Takes pride in being grass

Turns whole earth green.

 TO BE ALONE: SAPNA VERMA

One who can not 

See the truth

With eyes of reality

High -low caste

Great or small

Noise of casteism is

Stuck in whose ears

He becomes deaf

Instead of pointing to

Wrong as wrong

Keeps his lips closed

It is better to be alone

Then to be with society

That is dumb, deaf 

And vision-deprived

Maintaining such isolation

One can at least

Retain humane virtues.

ART

Is there any caste of

Sculptor

He is only an artist

Mingling his sweat in clay

Kneading it with hands and feet

Prepares dough

Then, taking lumps out of it

Creates variety of shapes

From this dough

He creates sparrow from this dough

From same dough, he creates God too

Then after baking them in kiln

He displays them by roadside

The sparrow, parrot and God

These all wonderful toys of clay

Are sold out in various forms

Sparrow and crows are set on shelves

And God is decorated in temple

Then earthen lamps are lit 

And worshipping ceremony solemnized 

High-caste people mark their presence

Inside temple

Standing outside the temple

Keeps smiling that actual hero

His smile imposes a harsh question

All these gentlemen deem me

Untouchable

But bow reverently

In front of my creation

I am aghast at your deed

O! Clay

Tell me

Do you believe in casteism?

Do you also support casteism?