5 verses · ~1 min
(आंद्रेई तारकोवस्की को पढ़ते हुए)
तैरता हुआ चांद मछलियों के जाल में नहीं फँसता
जब सारा पानी जमकर हो जाता है बर्फ़ वह चुपके से बाहर खिसक लेता है
जब झील सूख जाती है तब उसकी तलहटी में वह फैलाता है अपनी चांदनी
ताकि रातों को भी दिखाई दे मछलियों का तड़पना।
इति
The Poet
नरेश सक्सेना
Naresh Saxena
1939 · 2001
Naresh Saxena holds a singular and fascinating position in contemporary Hindi literature as a man who brought the exactitude of science into the heart of poetry. Born in 1939 in Gwalior and trained as an engineer, he did not publish his first poetry collection, Samudra Par Ho Rahi Hai Baarish, until he was sixty one years old. Yet, his literary presence had already been firmly established through decades of publication in prestigious journals. Saxena writes with a unique physiological and environmental awareness. He constructs his poems not out of abstract romanticism, but from the physical mechanics of the natural world and the complex realities of modern survival. His language is spare, precise, and completely devoid of unnecessary ornamentation. Alongside his poetry, he is an acclaimed playwright whose drama Aadmi Ka Aa has been staged thousands of times, and a filmmaker who won a National Film Award for his directorial work. He demonstrates that a poet does not need to abandon the rational world to understand the human soul.
Paired Painting
Sunset in the Caucasus Mountains
Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky poured his deep fascination with rugged topography and atmospheric majesty into his depictions of the Caucasus. This painting captures a fleeting twilight where the eternal snows of towering mountain peaks catch the dying embers of the sun. The artist uses confident brushwork and a subtle interplay of warm and cool tones to evoke the profound silence and spiritual solitude of the high peaks, bearing witness to the immense scale of nature.
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