Kids’ Corner: Poem 07

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EK SAPNA

by

Anagha Mudgal

(age 10)

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एक सपना

एक सपना
… कैसा ये सपना
एक रात मैंने देखा

मैं रौशनियों से घिरी
तारों से लिखी
एक लकीर बनती जा रही थी

मैं एक चाँद का गोला
एक मोटी व्हेल
छोटे – छोटे फूलों से घिरी
वहाँ थी परियाँ
और मैं

ऐसा एक सपना
देखा मैंने
– अनघा मुद्गल

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(For the benefit of our non-Hindi speaking friends, given below is our attempted English translation of this poem. – Website Editors)

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A Dream

A dream
… what a dream
I saw one night

A line, surrounded by lights
scribbled by the stars
was what I was turning into

I, a lunar circle
a fat whale
surrounded by little flowers
There were fairies
and me

Such a dream
I saw

- Anagha Mudgal

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Violence, injustice, anguish, fear… are issues that poetry has addressed down the ages.

Poetry not only celebrates the tender and the beautiful, it is also often a mantra for struggle, an inspiration in crisis and a guiding light in dilemmas. Poetry is not just ‘a thing of beauty’… it also is a hand raised in protest or in prayer…

But sometimes of course, a hand raised in protest is the most poetic thing in this world! We share some memorable lines by Pablo Neruda and invite you to share lines from your favorite ‘Poems of Protest’

And you’ll ask: why doesn’t his poetry

speak of dreams and leaves

and the great volcanoes of his native land?

Come and see the blood in the streets.

Come and see

The blood in the streets.

Come and see the blood

In the streets!

– Pablo Neruda

from the poem: I’m Explaining A Few Things

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