I Wish to Grow Words

Dr. Rati Saxena

    I wish to grow words
    Not like fruits
    Not like vegetation
    Or flower pads
    Like a jungle

    Tall---short
    Crooked---banded
    Weak - strong
    Words

    Grow as trees
    Spread as grass
    Climbs as
    climbers
    Bloom as flowers
    Ripe as fruits

    I

    A bird
    with yellow beak
    Will fly - will hop
    Will sing -will dance
    Until I change into

    WORDS

    Not a jungle

    
Dr. Rati Saxena - the Illustrious Editor of Krtya.in, is an eminent Hindi poet, translator and Sanskrit scholar. She has authored three collections of poems in Hindi (Maya mahathagini, ajanmi kavita ki kokh se, sapane dekhata samudra) and one each in English and Malayalam (in translation). Among the several awards she has received, the most coveted is the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2000. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Culture and Arts Fellowship, which helped her complete this path-breaking work “A seed of mind-a fresh approach to Atharvavedic study". Dr. Rati Saxena  in this issue... Tags: Thanal Online, web magazine dedicated for poetry and literature Dr. Rati Saxena, I Wish to Grow Words
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