AdbhutaIntermediate

फुहारों वाली बारिश

Phuharon Wali Barish

3 verses · ~1 min

जाने, किधर से चुपचाप आकर हाथी सामने लेट गए हैं, जाने किधर से चुपचाप आकर हाथी सामने बैठ गए हैं! पहाड़ों-जैसे अति विशाल आयतनोंवाले पाँच-सात हाथी सामने--बिल्कुल निकट जम गए हैं इनका परिमण्डल हमें बार-बार ललचाता रहेगा छिड़ने-छेड़ने के लिए सदैव बुलावा देता रहेगा!

लो, ये गिरी-कुंजर और भी विशाल होने लगे! लो, ये दूर हट गए, लो, ये और भी पास आ रहे, लो, इनका लीलाधरी रूप और भी फैलता जा रहा, लेकिन, ये गुमसुम क्यों हैं? अरे, इन्होंने तो ढक लिया अपने आपको हल्की-पतली पारदर्शी चादरों से झीने-झीने, 'लूज' झीनी-झीनी, लूज बिनावटवाली वो मटमैली ओढ़नी बादलों को ढक लेगी अब अब फुहारोंवाली बारिश होगी बड़ी-बड़ी बूँदें तो यह शायद कल बरसेंगे... शायद परसों... शायद हफ़्ता बाद...

रचनाकाल: 1984 में रचित

इति

Rasa: Adbhuta
Stanzas: 3
Lines: 35
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Free verse
Metre: free verse
Rhyme: none

The poem evokes an atmosphere of profound wonder and playful awe, perfectly aligned with the adbhuta rasa, capturing the surreal, transformative magic of an approaching monsoon. Visually, a painting of this scene would depict massive, mountain-sized dark clouds descending silently upon the landscape, mimicking the lumbering forms and quiet presence of giant elephants gathering closely nearby. These celestial beasts gradually drape themselves in translucent, earthy grey veils of mist and loose-woven fog, symbolizing the delicate boundary between earth and sky just before the heavens open. The artistic tone shifts effortlessly between domestic intimacy and cosmic scale, balancing the whimsical temptation to touch the clouds with the patient, suspended anticipation of the gentle, impending drizzle.

फुहारों वाली बारिश (Phuharon Wali Barish), by Nagarjun runs to 35 lines across 3 stanzas, set as Two free verse stanzas. Its governing rasa is Adbhuta, shaded by Shanta. The metre is free verse. Rhyme falls as none.

Written in 1984, this imaginative poem compares massive dark clouds to giant elephants sitting quietly before a gentle drizzle begins.

Read it for बादलों का हाथियों के रूप में मानवीकरण and वर्षा के आगमन की उत्सुकता. 2 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Elephant Khedda Operation: The painting evokes a tense, dramatic atmosphere charged with the raw energy of tamed wilderness and human anticipation. Set within a dense bamboo forest canopy, it depicts a historic elephant khedda where wild…

Words worth pausing on

गिरी-कुंजर: पर्वत रूपी हाथी
परिमण्डल: घेरा, वातावरण

Threads

Clouds Rain Nature

The Poet

नागार्जुन

Nagarjun

1911 · 1998

Vaidyanath Mishra, universally known as Nagarjun, was a literary force of nature who absolutely refused to bow before power. Born in 1911 in the Darbhanga district of Bihar, he earned the title of Janakavi or the poet of the people through decades of unyielding progressive writing. He wrote in both Hindi and Maithili, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Maithili collection Patrahin Nagna Gachh. Nagarjun was a restless traveler and a committed activist who actively participated in peasant movements and went to prison several times. His poetry is stripped of all artificial elegance. It speaks directly with the raw, biting anger of the hungry, the marginalized, and the exploited. Whether he was exposing political corruption or writing tenderly about the first rains on parched village earth, his words carried the undeniable scent of the soil. He died in 1998, but he remains the ultimate benchmark for resistance poetry in India. He proved that true poetry does not reside in the palaces of kings, but in the sweat and struggle of the common folk.