Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Earth Cries

I hardly see stars in the Bangalore sky...smog, as if, has robbed the sky of all its beauty. The first showers are no longer beautiful...Rainwater is damn dirty and black. For all these and more...Thanks to pollution which has certainly become more than a menace now! And adding to our woes, we have all the world leaders staging a drama at Copenhagen while the earth bleeds and cries!

Prithibir Chitkaar
Produshon chhine nilo, prithivir roop
Taai dekho Udaashin, Aaakasher mukh
Groho taara bondi Dhowashar kaaragaare
Baaka chaad eka tai, cheye aache chup.

Beesh Dhaale charidhaare, kol aar kaarkhana
Progotir pothe aaj agowan desh
Raastay gaari joto, bere chole obiroto
Amader chahidaar, keno nei sesh!

Socchhota nei aaj, gongaay, jomunaay
Bhoktir naame hoy taader aaj opomaan
Gaachpaala kete shob, sobhyota gorchi je
Ekdhare baare tai prithivir taapomaan.

Ei taapomaan niye aaj
Utheche je kolorob
Nongra raajniti
khomotaar khela sob!

Aakashe, baatashe , tai eto hahakaar
"Bachaao aamare" aaj prithivir chitkaar!

20 comments:

Sujoy Bhattacharjee said...

Hmmm...
Maybe should have sent a translation of this to Jairam Ramesh and his troops.
On a serious note though, this too, as always, is good. All the more commendable as you have chosen a current subject(which, admittedly, doesn't lend itself much to poetic interpretations) and woven some beautiful lines around it...
"Gaachpaala kete shob, sobhyota gorchi je" ....nice line that.

Tanaya said...

@ Sujoy
Thanks!
I am mot able to put comments in yr blog..the textbox seems disabled.Any changes in yr settings? Anyways, I read yr posts on Christmas and Avataar......both are good! Caught in a wrong job, u r. Should have been in the media..U can try that :)

/\bhR/\DeEp... All Yours said...
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/\bhR/\DeEp... All Yours said...

Bhalo hoeche lekha ta... Prithibir chitkaar tumi ami sune ki hobe? sabai jadi sunte peto... sabar kache jaaaaadi pouchano jeto!!!!... Tobe suru kora abossoi bhalo.. because who knows.. what next? :)

Tanaya said...

@Abhradeep
Chalo pauchabar chesta kori...sobai ke shunabar chesta kori..

Dreamer said...

Tanaya .. should consider poor souls like me.. translation pl%$#%#
:) And a cute profile pic.. rabbit out of the burrow!

Tanaya said...

@ Dreamer
I am sorry dear:)Plainly translated the poem goes something like this.

Earth's outcry

Pollution has robbed my earth of all its splendour
So, even the sky looks sad
In the cage of smog,are caught the stars
So the moon looks lone and drab

Spitting poison are the factories around
As my country treads the path of growth
The number of vehicles,on the rise always
Ah! our want knows no end!

No purity in the waters of the holy rivers,
We insult them in the name of devotion
We cut the trees to build our civilization
And Earth's temperature rises unchecked!

Of this global warming,We hear uproar
Nothing but politics and play of power

That's why I sense the sorrow in the sky and air
And "Save me" my earh cries.

Sujoy Bhattacharjee said...

Well, no changes in settings... and thanks for the suggestions. But I am stuck in this shitty job...at least this pays ;)

Arushi said...

Wish i could understans begali dee...i hope you will translate it for me..

Shalini

Arushi said...

I hope you transalate your poem for me Dee.

Shalini

Anonymous said...

awsome,excellent
i really like it........
global warming nice topic
i think u would have been wriiten better in ur language.....assamese

thanks for conversion for those people who dont know assamese....
ur translation is excellent

Anonymous said...

r u from NIT silchar?????

Tanaya said...

Ya, m from NIT Silchar. And the poem is in Bengali...not Assamese,
Thanks :)

Anonymous said...

sry , i don't know both the languages
so i don't know the difference.......i one of ur poem silchar was written so i thought that it is written in assamese.........
again sry if that hurt u.....so u r bengali..........
when is ur next poem coming???????

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Anonymous said...

U MUST BE IN THIRD OR FOURTH YEAR??????

The Sunflower Collective said...

nice

Anonymous said...

nice for what???????


tell something about u if u don't mind?????

Sami said...

Hey! Great poem! Keep writing stuff... shall visit more often :)

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