Poems by Students
हिमालय की गोद में
निकले थे घर से हज़ार उम्मीदें लिये
अटल था दिल की कर लेंगे हम,
हाँ! कदम डगमगाए, दिल घबराया
दिमाग़ ने कहा – नही, आगे मुशकिल बहुत है,
पर आँखें बंद किए तो दिखे वे चेहरे
जिनको हम पर था हम से ज़्यादा भरोसा!
खोले तो मिले वो नैन, जिन्होने बोला
आओ, कर लेंगे हम!
सितारों की चादर ओढ़े चाँद ने भी कहा,
छुटना नही चाहिए हमारा साथ इतनी जल्दी|
कहा हम ने, बस! अब और नही होने देंगे विचलित दिल को,
और निकल पड़े हम एक नये होसले के साथ|
रास्ते थे रंगीन, मिले दिलदार साथी भी,
ठंडी फ़िज़ाओं में भी साथ देती
सुंदर वादियाँ और सूरज की रोशनी,
मानो जैसे धरती पर ही जन्नत से रूबरू हो गये!
हाँ! रातों में कंप-कंपाए थे,
और थर-थराए भी!
पर उपर देखा तो फिर से
नटखट चाँद मुस्कुराइ, और हम भी|
धीरे-धीरे बढ़ाया पहाड़ों ने हमें आगे
दिया हौसला उन खूबसूरत बुलंदियों का,
बढ़ते रहे हम, हंसते रहे हम, गिरते रहे हम
फिर संभलते रहे हम, और बढ़ते रहे हम|
फिर चूम ली हम ने वो कामयाबी,
छू लिया हम ने उस पहाड़ का मुकुट!
याद रहेंगी ये चार दिन हमेशा, याद रहेगा वो संघर्ष,
वो जीत, वो खुशियाँ, और वो रिश्ते!
और फिर दिल मे हज़ार यादें लिए,
ज़िंदगी के लए कुछ सिख लेते हुए,
विदा लेते हैं इन वादियों से, मन में एक वादा करते हुए,
की फिर आएँगे एक दिन इन खूबसूरत वादियों में|
-Deepti Zain, PGP 2017-19
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My Little Angel
Wake up little angel, wake up?
I’m here by your side, you look at me, but do you see me?
Yawning and gazing like a month old baby
Will you wake up to be your 21 old self?
You were never 21 though, with childlike excitement
Kiddy, where are you now?
You would have told you story yourself, had you been around
But now it’s my responsibility
Crying in the cradle, still vivid, the first memory of you
Fair as snow white, with brown hair and eyes
Little rascal but you grew up too fast
Taller and stronger, do you remember our fights?
Why are you reeling back your life?
Can’t stand, the irony, seeing you again as a baby
Singing, sketching, playing, acting and coding
You loved your friends, but even more, our parents
Our fights turned into secrets shared
We were just short of turning best friends
Everyone got a taste of your love
We all crave it even now
You were so full of life that it couldn’t be contained within you
You look at us like you’re almost here
But how long do we patiently wait?
Your patience and courage are greater than ours
But my sweet heart, I can’t see you suffer any longer
Absurd it would sound, but I’m glad you are free now
Your pictures make it hard to digest the reality
I don’t have answers, so I stopped questioning
Your energy and love are intangible and eternal
I know you’re around, watching over me, as my angel
Gouthami Banoth, PGP 2017-19
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Clouds and Rain
The dense and dark clouds levitate over the lush green fields
With a malicious storm in the vicinity bracing up to wreck the terrain
It awaits with the entourage of thunder, lightning and hailstorm shields
While the blustery winds dance to the rhythm of the driving rain.
The clamor of the distant crowded street has gone silent
As the clouds and the storm gets ready for the imminent war
To win over the love of their life against the sea’s bewitchment,
For their love for rain was not a clandestine affair.
Cloud was eternally moonstruck by the beauty of the rain
The way she drizzled and danced with the flirty breeze
The way she created hailstorm and cyclone when in pain,
Painted the rainbow and calmed the parched earth and seas.
When the burden got too heavy, the rain left for the seas
And the cloud perished into oblivion with nothing left to live
Yet the benevolent sea creates the cloud again as the rising phoenix
For it knows it’s the clouds that make the rain feel complete.
Madhusmita Sahoo, PGP 2017-19
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Long to Return
Patrolling the front;
No ledger; when its day or night.
Quivering, suffocating, shrieking silently
Touch of mother, earnest plea.
Protecting entire nation, call of duty
Taking the bullet at will, touchdown.
But still when the forlorn aroma fills the hollow
I long to return.
Open restriction haunts
The cold quilt, unbounded rationality.
Close watch like a panopticon.
Who is the enemy, blurred notion.
When desperation subsumes in comrades holding hands
I rise above, I become we.
But still when the heart overflows with joy
I long to return.
When time stops, the mind becomes empty
When fast-forward overpowers reality
Jubilant media, thumping chest
Maneuvers, strategy, at haste?
But when I raise the voice, it suffocates.
Till when the normality will be coated?
Still I go on, still, I fight;
But when the silence is shattered apiece
I long to return.
Pallabi Chakraborty, PGP 2018-20
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Hope
Is it the splendor in your eyes,
Or my naïve heart is to blame,
When I think that someday,
You too will feel the same
Is it just my wishful dreams,
Or the hope your smile unchains,
When I know morning will come,
And I won’t feel that twinge of pain.
Is it your beauty that delights,
Or is it that stubborn love again,
When I believe, wonders do happen,
When I believe, hearts do change.
Vineet Mishra, EPGP 2018
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Our Fabric
In a blissful stillness,
Of a hustling Wednesday afternoon
My glorious flight of rootless vanity
Came crashing down on the porch
Of your cemented credence.
Your foolish confidence on how
The world had pulled each string
To sew together the fabric of our lives;
The universe had dealt a harmonious hand,
By what they call
Chaos of coincidences.
You would say:
Forty-odd winters between me and us,
Yet there I was,
Again,
With the dread of the next one.
Senseless as I stood
But felt all of my feelings
Washing ‘way
To expose the void within
Waiting to be filled
Of you.
Avik Mallick, PGP 2018-20