GRASS AND WOMAN: 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.
Hi!,Friends posting the comment on behalf of Poet Jud Bowness from Boston, which he posted on my fb timeline
ReplyDeleteWithout grass to hold the earth together the world would be barren and turn to dust and just blow away as if it never existed
JUD BOWNESS
thanks, Dear Poet for this deep comment
ReplyDeleteBeautifully Written.. I do appreciate the transverted language also, which doesn't make me feel like i am reading a translated poem.
ReplyDeleteHeartily obliged to you for this precious comment
DeleteBrain stirring concept of a laborious courageous tribal woman in Rajasthan to Grass, always connected to its roots under ground yet fragile in nature to be uprooted easily by greedy cunning man in society to exploit her femininity and dignity on seeing her beauty alike in swaying to breeze of the. Grass. The grass once ripped gets planted again in ground but is now shy of growing tall to prevent exploitation again. Same is condition of young girls who are vulnerable like. Grass to man dominated community life in Rajasthan
ReplyDeleteSimply speechless at your profound comprehensive comment.You are master in the art of commenting
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