CREATION OF POEM: A RAJASTHANI POEM BY NIRMALA RATHORE : ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 CREATION OF POEM

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Diving in depth of heart

Swaying on swing of expressive words

In oceanic depth of heart

Swinging countless times

Words are created.

Anguish of heart

Tears flowing from eyes

Land into this pen

And versify emotions of anguish

When anguish of heart

Gets out of control

And in the heart of poet

Anguish settles down

Storms of agony start uprising

In the inner cores of heart

It may be agony of anybody

Pang of separation

or else

That situation of sadness

Patient, sobre , passionate heart of poet

Preserves that  swelling pain

In the cores of his heart

When water of ocean

Starts swinging in the cores of heart

Uprising of agony enhances

Then a writer holds his pen

That agony assumes form of 

Cloudlet of rainy season

And constantly flows 

In the form of tears of the writer

And settles down on paper

That anguish, pain 

Does not merely confine itself

To pages of copy

When by chance

Any literate person catches glimpse of it

It become a means of applause

Creating or writing poems

Is never any easy nut to crack

When is it easy to versify agony

One has to dive deep

 In ocean of pain

One has to bear anguish

Several times while composing verses

Composer gets so much deep that

Not only  his eyes

But heart also cries in pain

Gush of tears flows from

Eyes as well as inner cores of heart

Conscience feels that agony

Wherever moving

That agony is penned on paper

Writing poems, versifying 

Is not an easy task

Pen has to be dipped 

In ink of tears

Before writing on any issue

One has to dive deep into it

One has to feel it

A composer 

Absorbs himself completely

For fathoming depth of it

After following this process

Several words are incarnated on paper

In the form of poem.