... Only If You Could Come!!
Reminiscences from my diary
January 21, 2012 Friday, 11 p.m.
750, Balcony, 7th floor, IISc
Bangalore
आँखों में बसी कुछ गीली तरंगे,
हृदय में वही प्रणय- राग !
पथ में बिछ जाती हर उमंग ,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
गूँज उठती कान्हा की बंसी ,
और मंदिर के शंखनाद !
मन भी गाता कोई मधुर गीत,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
तुम कुसुमाकर , मैं सुमन ,
छा जाता मकरंद औ' पराग !
खिल जाती गली -गली कली -कली ,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
हर स्मृति बौरा जाती ,
अश्रु पा जाते नयनजाल !
मन का मानस भी खिल जाता ,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
किरणें भी फिर से छन जातीं ,
मेघों में बजती सलिल- ताल !
नभ का मस्तक भी झुक जाता ,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
जग जाती फिर से हर ख्वाहिश ,
और ख्वाबों का घना जाल !
हर मिथ्या बनती यथार्थ,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
(कुछ बरसों पहले महादेवी जी द्वारा रचित एक कविता पढ़ी थी जिसका शीर्षक भी कुछ ऐसा ही था ! यह कविता उन्हें और उनकी कविता को समर्पित !)
Amazing...
ReplyDeleteनभ का मस्तक भी झुक जाता ,
आ जाते जो तुम एक बार !
I was deeply mesmerised by Mahadevi Verma ji's "Aa jate jo tum ek baar!" Tried to wrote a few lines on the same rhythm!
ReplyDeleteYa I noticed the similarity :)
ReplyDeleteShe is my favorite too. I wanted to go and study in her hostel just to be around, but she left the mortal body while I was still in school. I was especially fond of her writings about her pets. Later, my campus students used to bring me hurt animals, like her :)
Her book 'Path ke Saathi' is so beautifully written that last time when I tried reading it I could not complete it. It would choke me with elevated emotions :)
And I recently bought her book "ATEET KE CHALCHITRA" .... didnt start it yet!
ReplyDeleteI still remember DURMUKH...her pet rabbit and its story...I cried...a lot....I was in 7th and I used to complain my hindi teacher that why it had to die!!
Ya, her stories went so deep into you and you would see all her pets as individuals... and then they died.
ReplyDeleteIf you follow Calvin and Hobbes, you might connect with a specific episode. If I could, I would have uploaded that here. But I guess they don't allow it.