Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
KUSUMAGRAJ
(Translated from the Marathi Kinaryavar by M. R. SHIRWADKAR)
We are on the shore
Before us the mighty sea rolls and gleams
From heaven the crescent moon
heaps on earth her silvery beams.
The earth looks like a picture mute
To faint lights the darkness clings
The deep silence shivers a little
When a nightbird flaps its wings!
And through the darkness twinkle
The lights in the city far away,
–the earthly sorrows keep awake and burn
Though this night devours the day!
On the horizon a glimmering ship
Westwards cuts its watery run
A legion of flames as though is out
In search of the sunken sun!
The sparkling waves dance and surge
And finally on sand battered lie
Like lifeful dreams of the human world
That flash, bloom, break and die!
In oneness dissolve our lives today
On this sea’s watered brim
And this life too is like the sea
not wholly beautiful nor wholly grim!