Manulearning
6th March 2013, 19:26
Since i belong from a region which many of you might not be familiar with( Punjab - North of India), I would like to begin my journey on revleft by introducing you to one of the few revolutionary poets of my language - Paash. He is regarded highly here and has been translated in many Indian languages. I hope you like it.....
Thanks
So two and two can make three;
the present could be liestory
and the human face too
can look like a spoon.
****
I am frightened of newspapers these days
frightened
that there must be in them
somewhere
the news
that nothing has happened
****
I ask the Sun
flying across the sky –
Is this what they call time?
That events should trample
like crazy elephants
over all human consciousness?
That each question should be
no more than an error
of absorption in thought?
****
Wasn’t this the song that sat like dew on twigs
but fled
terrified like vapours
before a mere flake
of sunlight?
I am not familiar with the techniques of literature, and i guess these poems might look simple to some but perhaps some of these poems seem to resemble the Brechtian simplicity of an onion structure - it looks all simple from top but as you go down peeling and peeling till you reach center, that is when you realise the real message of poem. Anyways, you be the judge :)
So, being a beginner i cant post links, if anybody is interested in getting the links to his poems in english, please inbox me. Thanks
Thanks
So two and two can make three;
the present could be liestory
and the human face too
can look like a spoon.
****
I am frightened of newspapers these days
frightened
that there must be in them
somewhere
the news
that nothing has happened
****
I ask the Sun
flying across the sky –
Is this what they call time?
That events should trample
like crazy elephants
over all human consciousness?
That each question should be
no more than an error
of absorption in thought?
****
Wasn’t this the song that sat like dew on twigs
but fled
terrified like vapours
before a mere flake
of sunlight?
I am not familiar with the techniques of literature, and i guess these poems might look simple to some but perhaps some of these poems seem to resemble the Brechtian simplicity of an onion structure - it looks all simple from top but as you go down peeling and peeling till you reach center, that is when you realise the real message of poem. Anyways, you be the judge :)
So, being a beginner i cant post links, if anybody is interested in getting the links to his poems in english, please inbox me. Thanks