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Arun Dev
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1. The tattered clothe Has gone Lacklustre, The threads can’t hold together, It’s impossible for them to grab a new colour, Says the dyer. Marking the knots gone haywire, The mender looks elsewhere. 2. The sky overcast with stars, The moon floating on waves, The wind mild, In a remote corner on the other side of the river Leapt up fire Beyond the pyre 3. Lay me on the ground, The straw is my bread, My pillow rests in the north. Cover with my fire, The downcast river would help me flow across 4. People die before death Out of the fear of death, Death touches not the dead translated from Hindi by Anamika |
Hindi poet ARUN DEV was born on February 16, 1972, in Kushinagar. He is the author of Kya To Samay and Koi To Jahag Ho. He was awarded National Poet Maithilisharan Gupta National Award for his book Koi To Jagho Ho. His poems have been published in languages like Nepali, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Kannada, and English etc. He is the editor of Samalochan magazine.
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