DREAMS OF FATHER SITTING ON FOOTPATH, CREATION: RAJASTHANI POEMS BY JITENDER SONI: ENGLISH TRANSVERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 DREAMS OF FATHER SITTING ON FOOTPATH, CREATION: RAJASTHANI POEMS BY JITENDER SONI

TRANS-CREATION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

Dreams of Father Sitting on Footpath

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In mid of road

Sitting on footpath

Dreams of father

Turned into bricks

This whole thought process

Absorbed into thought of a room

After ,a room is built

Her young daughters

Clad in worn out clothes

Won't be visible to anybody

It won't be visible to anybody 

That they satisfy their hunger

By drinking water only.

Roofs and walls

Can hide their

Many miseries

People dwelling in palaces

Will never gather this notion

Worth of four walls

With roof overhead

Can be appreciated by

An old father only

Sitting under canopy of sky.

CREATION

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Jotting down a thought 

On a piece of paper

Is just as if a child is born

Just as a child

Getting attached to umbilical-chord 

Develops in womb

Exactly like that

Getting attached, a thought

Flourishes and matures 

In brain

Thoughts commove us

Like labour-pains

Inner- cores of heart of poet

Generate pragmatic words

Chains of  words are linked together

On piece of paper.

Just as a child is born

A child to mother

A poem to poet

Hold same meaning

Who can acclaim

That creation of a poem is

In any way, less than that of mother

A poet is a creator.