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Ganesh Visputay

  • In the havoc of carnages
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I wish to transcribe on paper
The quiescence around the Buddha 
Sleeping in the twenty-sixth cave of Ajanta
And the cool solitude there

I wish to savour the taste of soil
The taste which is translated into the crops 
Grown by farmers
And the smell of the soil
Where sweat of toiling generations has dribbled

And I hear the sound of a bullet just shot

I wish to write 
The love notes filled with guilt which remained unexpressed 

- And I hear the screams of children 
Trapped in a burning cottage

In the midnight  listening to the Darbari of Aamir Khan
The commotion is heard from the bastis set on fire

The industrialist who has grabbed the world in his fist 
Gobbles pieces of land sticking on his fork for his breakfast

I want to write poems about  trees
In their language
But I am disillusioned 
I tell them:
You have been growing since ages
To be cut and die silently
Please pull out your roots and go away 
…. Curse us and go away.

In the land affected by amnesia
The chosen path will lead you
You are destined to be doomed

I don’t wish to write a poem 
In the havoc of carnages
At this doomed hour of lost poem.

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Ganesh Visputay is an award winning Marathi poet, translator, and painter. His awards include State Govt. of Maharashtra Award, 1992, 
  • Kavi Keshavsut Puraskar of Govt. of Maharashtra, 2012, Balshastri Jambhekar Award for translating Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red in Marathi, 2015, and Dr. Jahagirdar Memorial Samskriti Award, 2020


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