Haiku Haiku
Crestfallen blue moon
liquidized in brazen night
bleeding eclipsed heart!
Hindi Haiku Hindi Haiku
विषादग्रस्त चंद्र
घुल रहा विषाक्त रात में
लेकर आहत मन!
It’s said that a lunar eclipse affects lovers, lunatics and poets the most, as it leaves a lingering impact on their fragile psyche. Being a selenophile and nyctophile, the moon and the night are my choicest leitmotif when I chose to express in verse.
Regardless of the language, genre or the scheme, the gist of my poetry reccours this time, that is portraying the agony of the eclipsed moon after the total lunar eclipse happened on Ist February 2018, when the entire universe witnessed the ‘once-in-a-blue-moon’ phenomenon. That blissful sight of blue blooded bright red moon was encaptured by my junior, my shutterbug daughter, Anindhya, who abundantly filled my media gallery with awe-inspiring clicks of that celestial event. Those pics inspired me to express again, this time on a smaller canvas, haiku.
Haiku is a Japanese poetic from, often told in a scheme of 5-7-5 syllable count respectively in 3 lines. It portrays volumes of emotions in a miniscule unrhymed and unrhythmic verse. This micropoetic stream encapsulates abundance in a nutshell.
Glossary for Hindi Haiku
विषादग्रस्त : Grief-stricken, Distressed चंद्र: Moon घुल रहा: Getting dissolved
विषाक्त: Poisonous, Venomous आहत: Hurt मन: Heart.
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Awesome interpretation.
Thank you so much!
Somehow, it recreates that mythological agony of the moon, which is witnessed mutely by the scandalized heavens, who, though willing to share the trauma of the dying moon, are unable to help him, and watch the glorious orb slowly being extinguished to oblivion!
But, arch optimist that moon is, it bounces back from that mortal throes and shines again, illuminating that dark night with his joyful glory and lights up the glow of euphoria and happiness in the hearts of lovers, poets and lunatics, which you so cunningly mentioned, and which all are synonymous anyway! 😀
Synonyms? Yes, they seem to be..as all of them are selenophiles, intrigued to your namesake, the glorious silvery orb, waning and waxing to entice all ! 🙂
Thank you so much for your valuable comment. I so very wanted you to read this haiku, and it somehow managed to reach to you! Glad that it recreated that mythological agony you have mentioned! Keep visiting! Means a lot! 🙂