lamhat(moments)

Meri Keemat Revisited ( My Value) This is the first poem I shared on this blog on 30th August 2012. I don't know why by I felt sharing it today. Maybe because I have more readers now than I have on those days. It's a bilingual poem expressing feelings of poet who is feeling dejected as world didn't value him even when he was of the character set by society as the superior. Like today then also I didn't care what others think but its just expressions of a sad person. Experienced earned in the course of time has helped it made better.  मेरी कीमत अगर पूछो ज़माने के बाज़ारों में, तेरी क़दमों की खाक भी बिकेगी मुझसे बेहतर ही।   Meri Keemat Agar Pucho Zamane Ke Bazaron Mein, Teri Kadmon Ki Khaak Bhi Bikegi Mujhse Behtar Hi. If you ask my value in markets of the world, Dust of your foot better than me will be sold. भलाई, सच्चाई ,प्यार का कोई मोल क्या होगा, यह वोह दौलत है जो रख्खें हैं कुछ मुझसे ही।  Bhalai,Sachchai,Pyaar Ka Koi Mol Kya Hoga, Ye W...

मैं जीवन में कुछ कर न सका। (My Life Remained Useless.) - Harivansh Rai Bachchan जग में अँधियारा छाया था , मैं ज्वाला लेकर आया था, मैंने जलकर दी आयु बिता,पर जगती का तम हर न सका, मैं जीवन में कुछ कर न सका! World with darkness was enveloped, Blaze in it I had brought, Spent my age in burning,but world's gloom I couldn't suppress, My life remained useless!  अपनी ही आग बुझा लेता, तो जी का धैर्य बंधा देता, मधु का सागर लहराता था,लघु प्याला भी में भर न सका, मैं जीवन में कुछ कर न सका! If my own fire I could have extinguish, Then my heart could have relish, Sea of honey was floating,but a small cup I couldn't access, My life remained useless!  बिता अवसर क्या आएगा, मन जीवन भर पछताएगा, मरना तो होगा ही मुझको,जब मरना था तब मरना सका, मैं जीवन में कुछ कर न सका! Did occasions spend will come back, That regret will always attack, Couldn't die when I should die,but will die when it's worthless, My life remained useless! For a ...