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लीक पर वे चलें जिनके चरण दुर्बल और हारे हैं, हमें तो जो हमारी यात्रा से बने ऐसे अनिर्मित पन्थ प्यारे हैं।
साक्षी हों राह रोके खड़े पीले बाँस के झुरमुट, कि उनमें गा रही है जो हवा उसी से लिपटे हुए सपने हमारे हैं।
शेष जो भी हैं- वक्ष खोले डोलती अमराइयाँ; गर्व से आकाश थामे खड़े ताड़ के ये पेड़, हिलती क्षितिज की झालरें; झूमती हर डाल पर बैठी फलों से मारती खिलखिलाती शोख़ अल्हड़ हवा; गायक-मण्डली-से थिरकते आते गगन में मेघ, वाद्य-यन्त्रों-से पड़े टीले, नदी बनने की प्रतीक्षा में, कहीं नीचे शुष्क नाले में नाचता एक अँजुरी जल; सभी, बन रहा है कहीं जो विश्वास जो संकल्प हममें बस उसी के ही सहारें हैं।
लीक पर वें चलें जिनके चरण दुर्बल और हारे हैं, हमें तो जो हमारी यात्रा से बने ऐसे अनिर्मित पन्थ प्यारे हैं ।
इति
The Poet
सर्वेश्वरदयाल सक्सेना
Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena
1927 · 1983
Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena completely rejected the notion that serious poetry required an elitist vocabulary. Born in 1927 in the Basti district of Uttar Pradesh, he became one of the most accessible and beloved voices of the Nayi Kavita movement. As the prominent editor of the children's magazine Parag and a key figure at the literary journal Dinamaan, Saxena possessed an incredibly rare ability to speak directly to the rural heartland while maintaining razor sharp political intelligence. His poetry collections, such as the Sahitya Akademi Award winning Khunti Par Tange Log, confront the disillusionment of post independence India, governmental apathy, and the quiet struggles of the peasantry. He wrote about rivers, forests, and village folk not with romantic nostalgia, but with a fierce and protective realism. Saxena passed away in 1983, but his words remain permanently etched into the consciousness of the Indian middle class. He proved that true literary greatness lies not in speaking above the people, but in walking directly beside them.
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