Taari Saathe Vartalaap Maan…

Taari saathe vartalaap maan

javallej marun dhyaan taari vaat

upar taki rahe chhe.

Sambhalaay chhe mane van-pankhiono

kalarav,

anubhavaay chhe adaabeed jungaloni

niravta,

taari kavitao taara hisaabna

chopdao saathe je

jeevlen chedan kare chhe

e punn.

Sambhalaay chhe mane

avismaraniy drashyona

chitr-vrutant,

click clickna bareek

avaaj saathe

taari digital camerani jadugari

jaane ke

camero taara sharirnun avayavaj

na hoy….

Vichitrata aapna

antiseptic sambandhoni e chhe

ke maarun dhyaan nathi

e vaat par taarun dhyaan rehtunj nathi-

tun etli magn rahe chhe

mane tara shabda-bhandol maan

dubaadva khaatar : daghaee jaun chhun hun

kayrek taari dhaardaar tatpartaathi.

(c) Max Babi 030508

Transcreated in English “

I rarely manage to focus on your words

whenever we converse.

I can hear soft cackling of forest birds

I can sense the chaste silence of the forests

even the liberties your poems take with

your accounts books… too.

I can also hear the sounds

of unforgettable landscapes, their images,

along with click click of your digital camera,

the magic of this instrument

as it it were an extension of your own body….

The oddity in our antiseptic relationship

is that you never focus on the fact

that I fail to focus on your talk-

so lost you remain in your attempts

to drown me in the waterfall of your words :

at times I get awed by the sharpness of

your eagerness.

(c) Max Babi 060508

 

 

~ by maxbabi on May 6, 2008.