Hindi – Kavita (Poetry)

I stumbled on below link and was surprised to see the impact on Internet on Hindi. I think same is true for all the Indian languages and all the other world languages.

Internet has impacted the lives and the times on how things were learned and shared; Hindi poetry is not an exception to this revolution.

here is the link first:  http://www.kavitakosh.org/

kavitaKosh

Internet portals have become the practical and viable examples of content collaboration and it is evident from this initiative.  Initially, our regional news papers became accessible and kavitakosh is the next in list.

Nevertheless, it has at least given a Hindi poetry reader an opportunity to step back in the past, recall and relish the poetic subtleties that one might be used to in paperback era.

So why hindi poetry became stagnant?

Good Poems – I

Love After Love

                                     - by Derek Walcott

The time will come

When, with elation,

You will greete yourself arriving

At your own door, in your own mirror

And each will smile at other’s welcome,

Here is the Poem

Author: James Elroy Flecker

(Taken from ‘Beyond the Last Blue Mountains’ by R M Lala)

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We are the Piligrims, master; we should go

Always  little further; it may be

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow

Across that angry or that glimmering sea …

We travel not for trafficking alone;

By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned;

For lust of knowing what should not be known,

We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.