Poets keep audience spellbound on Day-II

Patna: ‘Kis kaam ki rahi ye dikhave ki zindagi, waade kiye kisi se guzari kisi ke sath’ won rounds of applause with ‘waah waah’ and ‘bahut khoob’ filling the air no sooner than Waseem Barelvi recited his lines on the second day of the three-day Bharatiya Kavita Samaroh on Saturday.
Barelvi gathered much applause from the audience for his couplets like ‘Usoolon pe jahaan aanch aaye takrana zaroori hai ...Jo zinda ho to phir zinda nazar aana zaroori hai’, ‘Kaun si baat kahan kaise kahi jaati hai, ye saleeka ho to har baat suni jaati hai’, ‘Ek bigdi hui aulaad bhala kya jaane, kaise maa baap ke honthon se hansi jaati hai’ and ‘Paani pe tairti hui ye laash dekhiye, aur sochiye ki doobna kitna muhaal hai’.
However, language was no barrier at the poetry fest as poems in Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Gujarati, Magahi and Assamese also received much applause from the audience comprising mostly the elderly intellectuals of the city with some college youngsters helping out with the volunteer work of the event.
Poet and Professor Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari also entertained Patnaites with his compositions ‘Jagah’ (‘Khade khade mere paav dukhne lage the, thodi si jagah chahta tha baithne ke liye’), ‘Suitcase – New York se ghar tak’, ‘Manushyata ka dukh’ and ‘Sadak par ek lamba aadmi’. Noted Hindi poet, essayist and literary-cultural critic Ashok Vajpayee and Odia poet and retired IAS officer Ramakant Rath (‘Paani lo’ and ‘Kanchan’) also regaled the audience with their poetry.
Among the women who took centre stage on Saturday included noted Hindi poetess Pushpa Bharati, Notre Dame Academy Hindi teacher Bhawna Shekhar with her titles ‘Kavi’, ‘Vidhi Nishedh’ and ‘Abhidha Nahi Vyanjana’, Hindi poetess Rashmi Rekha and Kannada poetess Pratibha Nandkumar. Other poets who also recited their works on the second day included Vasant Abaji Dahake, Nilesh Raghuvanshi, A Krishna Rao, Uday Shankar Sharma, Sitanshu Yashchandra, Giridhar Rathi and Manikuntala Bhattacharya.
The visitors had a gala time at the poetry fest. “It’s good to hear poems in so many languages. But, it’s even better that the Hindi translations are also read out so that we understand its essence,” said Radhika Singh, a Kidwaipuri resident who had come to the poetry fest.
Stalwarts like Prayag Shukla, Manglesh Dabral, Badri Narayan, Nachiketa, Anwar Ali and Mridul Dasgupta will read out their poems on Sunday, the last day of the three-day fest dedicated to Gopal Singh Nepali.