DREAMS OF FATHER SITTING ON FOOTPATH : My English transversion of Rajasthani Poem of Poet Jitendra Kumar Soni

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JITENDRA KUMAR SONI

DREAMS OF FATHER SITTING ON FOOTPATH 

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.


My Rajasthani Translation of a Rajasthani Poem of  Bi-lingual Poet and Fiction writer I.A.S. Jitender kumar Soni. It has been included in Anthology of Rajasthani Poems ACROSS THE BORDER, transverted  by me into English

Rajni Chhabra

Multi lingual Poetess and  Translator


P.S. : Immensely pleased to share with you that The Poet is recipient of Sahitya Akademi  Award 2025 for his Rajasthani Fiction BHARKHAMA 

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