The Akdemi Award winners are in news for their silent yet persistent, non violent yet powerful rebellion against PM Modi. The Akademi Award winners are sad about the rampant communalism in the country which never existed in the times of Congress. The Akademi Award winners have returned their Akademi Awards to protest against the death of writer and rationalist MM Kalburgi and the lynching of a Muslim Man in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh.
I went through the work of some of the Akademi Award winners and I was truly impressed. Their poems are almost always written in indirect speeches which are almost always undecipherable for the common masses. The use of personifications is top class. The poets that impressed me the most were Shri Ashok Vajpeyi ji and Shri Uday Prakash Ji., hence I have shortlisted 8 poems of theirs which touched me the most. I have added literal English Translations for the Non Hindi Speakers. Please note that I have used only first few lines for poems which are more long.
These 8 poems have the power to lighten up the dullest days and crack the dullest soul up.
1. Adhpake Amrud ki tarah by Ashok Vajpeyi
The rabbits are nibbling the earth in dark
Slowly
The ants are hauling the earth
Slowly
The scorpions are rolling, with the earth at the crosshairs of their stings
My daughter however
Is clutching the earth
Like a raw guava in her hands
2. Ek Alag Sa Mangalvaar by Ashok Vajpeyi
That could have been any afternoon
Any Tuesday
When it was 3 PM
Something like whatever thing
In which life could have been just like that
But it wasn’t supposed to happen
3. Koi nahi Sunta by Ashok Vajpeyi
No one pays attention to hollers
But it listens with ears wide open
The agile cat on the stairs
Who doesn’t know if it should stay?
Or flee in fright
4. Tokni by Ashok Vajpeyi
Just got to know that the veggie basket isn’t around
Used to be here earlier
In which gloom and veggies were stored
Now that it is not there
There is an acute shortage of
Containers to store gloom
5. Patti by Ashok Vajpeyi
It grew as much as it could, that leaf
Further growth wasn’t in its control or the tree’s control
It trembled less that what it actually could
It was in its control
Entangled between growing and trembling
It was a leaf
6. Tibbat by Uday Prakash
The llamas from Tibet
Keep wandering
While chanting their hymns
Their flocks of mules
Walk in the lawns
But don’t eat the marigold shrubs
Hey dad, how many flowers are there in a marigold flower?
7. Rajdhani me Bail by Uday Prakash
Holding the clouds on its horns
It stands beneath the thrill of the sky
Its skin tingles for a long time
When a water drop hits it
I watch it
Drenching
Till long
8. Maarna by Uday Prakash
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After dying
Man doesn’t think
After dying
Man doesn’t speak
When a man doesn’t think
And speak
He dies
These amazing poems have awakened the poet in me too, so here I go:
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As he was watching TV in the afternoon
With a remote in his hand
He suddenly remembered
That he needs to drink water
In the hullabaloo of life
One doesn’t even remember to drink water
