MAHADEVI VERMA .."DEV AB VARDAAN KAISA"...

                                     

DEV AB VARDAAN KAISA ? 

I have always admired the intensity of feelings in Mahadevi Verma's(1907-1986) poetry. Today , suddenly i remembered her poem " Dev Ab vardaan Kaisa ". Love this poem wherein she addresses and conveys her intensely felt loneliness and suffering ( in her life's journey ) to her Lord, her beloved . Some lines that came to mind today are as under:-

"Yug-yugaantar ki pathik mein

Chhu kabhi loon chhaanh teri

Le phiroon sudhi deep see

Phir raah me apni Andheri

Lautata laghu pal na dekha

 Nit naye khshan roop rekha 

Chir batohi me , mujhe

Chir panguta ka dhaan kaisa

.....…............Dev ab vardaan kaisa ..."

( Mahadevi Verma)

(युगयुगान्तर की पथिक मैं 

छू कभी लूँ छाँह तेरी,

ले फिरूँ सुधि दीप सी, 

फिर राह में अपनी अँधेरी;

लौटता लघु पल न देखा,

नित नये क्षण-रूप-रेखा,

चिर बटोही मैं, मुझे

चिर पंगुता का दान कैसा!

........देव अब वरदान कैसा)

(महादेवी वर्मा)

My  English rendering is like this :-

( I am a traveller of aeons,

If only I might once touch your shade,  

I would carry its memory like a lamp,  

And take it with me down my darkened path.

The fleeting moment never turns back to look,  

Each new instant bears a new form, a new outline.

An eternal wayfarer am I ;

Why then this gift of endless lameness?  

Lord, what kind of blessing is this now?)

( Avtar Mota)

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