An expression of the Earth’s love for the Sun

This is the English translation of the Marathi poem पृथ्वीचे प्रेमगीत .

The original poem was too beautiful to not be shared with my friends. कुसुमाग्रज , was indeed a master at imagination, weaving scientific facts with the beauty of love. My only contribution here is the translation, and change of rhyme scheme from abcb to abab. 

Ages after ages zoom, O bright one…

How long, from you, must I stay?

How long must I keep round the run?

How many appeals must on I pray?

No longer remain the heavy, bated breaths

Far is my body’s fire from its reaches

The flame of the youth has had deaths

My heart’s now left with only dark niches

Inside me, still is awake love’s spark

And so shall it remain for eons too…

Round and around, I go without a mark

All I know is that I follow you

The stars shine on me, in pomp and glory

And flash and shower aurora down

Without you, O lord, what would be my story?

Then in darkness, would my universe drown!

Collecting the strewn beads of light

Scattered away from you by chance

The Moon wishes to get self in sight

Accepting and practicing his pitiful penance

At my doorstep, in his radiant gait

Stands loving Venus – evening and morns

Bushing red is the Mars in wait

Ho proposes me, shedding all his scorns

Celibate and dejected stays the Pole Star

And has chosen a life with the monks!

With blown hair, as if by wind in a car,

The Comet asks me out, quite on the rocks!!

Seeing and worshipping your eternal brightness

How can fireflies now make my necklace?

May God drive away the weak and their nearness

Even your distance beats them in grace!

The Laval sparks out pool all the lakes

As do your memories come up burning

My whole and soul shakes and quakes

As your thoughts get my insides churning

How I wish to merge in your dynamic hips

Your neck be intertwined in mine!!
How I want to drink the fire in your red lips

And the climax reach, with me in arms thine

O Limitless Friend, with incomparable highness

I know I’m just a soiled dot

To adorn and sing your pedal greatness

The ornament of soil is all my worthy lot!

The King

The tired man walked in
His tall frame slowly losing its height
More than seventy years load
Bending his shoulders away..

I stay numb like always,
Belittled by his inexplicably royal personality..
He has worked all day, relentlessly
Just like past forty years..
An age, a lifetime dedicated to knowledge

Today they respect him less, fear more..
Understand him less, bitch of him more..
Know less than him, pretend more..
In their sad excuses for merriment..

They understand not the tired body
The pain of rejection of his skills..
The accusation of him being disposable..
Of being past expiry date..

Yet they crowd him, when they're at a loss..
Call him The King, seek redressal..
Yet talk of him ill, unbeknownst to him.

That bothers the mortal man he is..
But his mind still works..
Recognising the challenge, avoiding silly talk,
He is ready for the next day
His sceptre in his hand, he arrives..

Nobody realises what burdens he's carried
Because the smile on his face doesn't give him away..
The crowd ignores, in their mediocrity
I watch it from my vantage point-
The King and his kingdom's worry..

Calypso

I could gulp the gush

of the waterfall or 
I could tame 
A roaring lion with a glance
I would silence a wild elephant
With a blink of my eye
I would raise my hand
And silence howling wolves
I could shadow the Sun
And eclipse away the moon..

I'd hold the clouds in my palm, 
and tame
any wave that uses to rise
I'll weave the wind
In my plait, and
Clench the earth under my feet
I can collect the stars
In the twinkle of my eye
And colour the aurora with my moods..
I could match every grain of sand
With a different snowflake

And every speck of dust
With a ray of light
You all live in me, just as
I live in each one of you
You breathe me in, for
I'm in the air..
I'm the smile in your tears
And the courage in your fears

Search me out and search me in
And yet find me nowhere
See me, follow me..
Hear me, lose me..
Please me or tease me,
You'll only appease me..
Touch me not, for I'm not tangible..

But you're smarter, man...
You touch me through your words
You touch me through your deeds
And you bind me to you,
With so much love..

The one thing I can't tame.