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World Poetry Month: Day Seventeen
Today’s poetry is ‘Love’s Philosophy’ a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the visionary poets who helped define Romanticism, but he was a rather obscure poet who wasn’t widely read or celebrated while he was alive.
Only after his untimely death did his poetry begin to receive recognition and be truly appreciated.
This is not to say, however, he didn’t have a huge influence on the literary community of his day.
He was friends with Lord Byron and John Keats, both of whom inspired and in turn were inspired by Shelley.
Like his peers, he was a free spirit and a free-thinker, a humanist, atheist, feminist, socialist, philosopher, and to top it off a wooer of women.
“Love’s Philosophy” combines his rhetorical skills and philosophical musings in an attempt to persuade the listener to kiss the poet using arguments that nothing in the world is single.
‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley ▶️
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
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Bheega sa wo dard
Kyu bahe aaj yeh ashk
Tumhari palkon se..
Hum samajh na paaye
Kyun hua dard humaare bhi
Seene mein…
hum samajh na paye
Kyun tum chup rahe
Aur aankhein keheti rahee…
Kyun tum sunn se ho gaye
Aur saansein beheti rahee…
Kyun ye dariya tufaan banke
Tumhaari palkon se bahaa..
Kyun chup chaap tumne
Itnaa dard sahaa…
Kal nahi the hum tumhare
Rubaroo…
Par aaj khade hein to sochte hein
Kyun naa kahun…
Ki rok lo iss tufaan abhi yahin..
Kahin beh naa jaayein kahin
Mera wajood inme..
Jaante hein humaraa hi diya hai
Ye darde khaas tumhein..
Isse Ashkon bahaakar
Yun Aam na karein.
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Often Sees Your Eyes Filled With Tears
I have often sees your eyes
Filled with tears
What is the reason
I don’t know
But one thing I could guess
A deep void is there in your heart
Adjustments in life is to be made
So what if your dear has gone
This is the trend of life
Don’t fill your eyes with tears
Rather boost your energy
Get up , move forward
Whatever work has been left
By you dear father
Make it a goal and carry the mission onward
Tears would make you weak
Wipe it out and make the life cosy and revived
कई दिनों से देखी नहीं तुम्हारी आखें
लम्हें पर लम्हें बिता दिए,
हमने इंतज़ार की घडिओं में
कुछ सपने ऒर हक़ीक़त के
अंतर तक को हम भूल गए l
तुम्हारी वो ऑंखें जिनमें,
विश्वास पनपता था l
मेरे दुख में झर झर बहती थीं
सुख आने पर ही आँखों में भी
तेज चमकता रहता था ,
वो आखें नहीं दिल की ज़ुबान थी
तुम मेरे कितने अपने हो,
ये ही उनकी पहचान थी l
कितने मौसम ये बीत रहे,
कभी घोड़े पर हम हुए सवार ,
कभी अटक गए बीच मझधार l
तब याद तुम्हारी आती रही ,
मन को भी यूँ तरसाती रही ,
बस मन यही करता रहा बार बार
कई दिनों से अक्सर देखी नहीं
तुम्हारी आखें l जो उड़ने को उत्साहित करें सदा
मेरी पाखें l