नैनों की सजाई पाती कोरी
अश्रु मोतियों संग
झीनी चूनर थी, रंग डाली
तन फिर भी बेरंग |
निष्पाप गुलाबी काया मेरी
जल भई रंग जैतूनी,
भर-भर कर जल बरसे फिर भी
मेरी अँखियाँ सूनी |
मुरली की धुन, धुनकी रूई
पट गयी चहुँ दिशाएं
पीताम्बर से दिवस उजागर
मोरपंखी हैं निशायें |
जो सुर हैं सातो सतरंगी
सरगम इंद्रधनुष
मन प्यासा, जग क्षीर सागर
ढूंढे न मिले पीयूष |
दो रंगों में बंट गयी मैं तो
श्वेत चुनूँ या श्याम ?
एक है तेरी स्मिति की ऊर्जा
दूजा छद्मनाम |
रंग तो तेरे ही हैं कान्हा
ये तू भी है जानता
तुझ बिन थी मैं बेरंग सी
और रहूँगी सदा …
Holi, a festival of surging colors in our erstwhile insipid life!
After the meadows snowed under the cruel pangs of Winter, Spring blooms into a vivid colored corolla whoring around the abyss created by life…And, then we paint others with all the hues of love…
Holi is the celebration of love in all its incarnations…beauty, romance, art and the acme of all love, divinity.
Holi is a euphoria which transcends into divinity, Jolled between Radha and Krishna in Madhuban, beyond all malice, above all worldly virtues and vices…
I celebrate pure colors over shades and hues. Seven tints of VIBGYOR spurting from a colorless hallow and forming a rainbow…Love is as pure as that hallow, as white as the soul…That’s the true color of Holi.
Sharing along an old painting by my daughter Maitreni Mishra, painted when she was 13. The last quatrain of my poem was written a year ago by one of my friends, a great poet. The end was meant for me, rest is mine.
…And, as always, the post is dedicated to my muse, music, God!
Rang to tere hain Kanha…
…Happy Holi Everyone…
Glossary:
*नैनों की पाती : Letters of endearment
*झीनी चूनर : Soul
*निष्पाप गुलाबी काया : Purity
*रंग जैतूनी : Sun burnt, Olive complexion
*धुनकी रूई : As gossamer as carded cotton wool
*पट गयी : Spread all over
*चहुँ दिशाएं : Four directions, Everywhere
*पीताम्बर : Yellow silk drape Krishna used to wear which added radiance to Sunlight
*मोरपंखी ; Hues of the peacock feather Krishna adorned in his tiara, Dark and shimmery hues of night
*क्षीर सागर : The Ocean of Milk which was churned by gods and demons to get Elixir of life
*पीयूष : Amrit, Elixir of life, Ambrosia
*स्मिति की ऊर्जा : Glow, Vibrancy of smile
*छद्मनाम : Pseudonym, Nickname
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Wonderful poem, learnt some new words.