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मेघ आए बड़े बन-ठन के, सँवर के । आगे-आगे नाचती-गाती बयार चली दरवाजे-खिड़कियाँ खुलने लगीं गली-गली पाहुन ज्यों आए हों गाँव में शहर के ।
पेड़ झुक झाँकने लगे गरदन उचकाए आँधी चली, धूल भागी घाघरा उठाए बाँकी चितवन उठा नदी, ठिठकी, घूँघट सरके ।
बूढ़े़ पीपल ने आगे बढ़ कर जुहार की ‘बरस बाद सुधि लीन्ही’ बोली अकुलाई लता ओट हो किवार की हरसाया ताल लाया पानी परात भर के ।
क्षितिज अटारी गदराई दामिनि दमकी ‘क्षमा करो गाँठ खुल गई अब भरम की’ बाँध टूटा झर-झर मिलन अश्रु ढरके मेघ आए बड़े बन-ठन के, सँवर के ।
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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