HOME TURNING INTO HOUSE : HINDI POEM BY PROMILA BHARDWAJ: ENGLISH VERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA
HOME TURNING INTO HOUSE
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Brick, stones, mortar
Create lovely house,
Love, sacrifice, hard work, patience
Convert house into unique home.
Constructing house is not a cake-walk
Transforming house into home is
More difficult than that,
While strolling, viewed grand buildings
Many palatial houses
Surpassing other in grandeur
But came across, very few homes,
Resources for constructing house enhanced
Virtues that turned house into home
Are diminishing.
Lest this happens
Visible all -around are huge houses
Lifeless-deserted-devitalized
Devoid of affectionate ambience
Houses seem like night-shelter
Without fragrance of affinity
Neither yours, nor mine
Houses seem like inhabitation.
To give them appearance of home
O, Mind! Put some efforts
So that houses don't remain sheer houses
And don't vanish all homes
Smeared with love.
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