Oh! How beautifully and blissfully runs the smiling Stream!
What a pearly apparel she wears, like an Angel in a celestial dream!
How sweet, like a cuckoo's, is her catching and tickling hum!
How mesmerizing is her murmuring music like a melodious drum!
Yes, life sings a surely a song of sense in her serene and heavenly touch,
Alas! Without her, emptiness, like a fearful fire, taunts my life to scorch!
Really, what a beautiful stream !
She has her source in the lofty mountains
Her motion is faster than
winds and brains
Ceaseless as well as tireless she is ever
Always glad and sportive, and sluggish ever
Who can pay for her priceless perseverance?
Who can deserve to be a worthier instance?
Who can imitate her Nature, full of elegance?
Oh! Mind flies to be mingled with her
To take an instant dip in her cool, refreshing water
To relieve my eager fancy and the ardent body-heater,
In her unique company nights and days do not matter
To make her mine at the cost of my heart and soul
To be pampered and fondled at her lap – my only goal
To open up my mind before it: “ Thou art mine sole!”
Oh! Can I bring about in
me a
In her sublime and solace pouring association?
For, stream is eternal, myself momentary
Stream is clean, myself mundane and miry
Stream is grand and great, myself a mean silt
Stream is boundless, myself within a limit.
Still, I am sanguine, in her company I can a little bit.
ODIA VERSION OF THE ABOVE ENGLISH POEM
NIRJHARA TI KU
Oh! Kete sundar nirjhara tie!
Kete sundar taara sweta paridhaana!
Ki madhura taara kala kala gaana!
Ki mana mugdhakara taara gunu gunu swana!
Taara sparsare janma laage dhanya!
Aau taa bina laage sabu nirasa o sunya!
Satare, kete sundar jharanatie !
Giri shikhara ru taara utpati;
Kebe bi se thakena, athaka taa gati!
Sadaa asthira, chala chanchala
Amula mula taara srama
Kie ba heba taa sange sama?
Kie ba paali paariba taara chira saaswata dharma?
Mana kuhe taara sathe misijibaa paain
Taa shusitala jala re mana bhari snaana kariba paain
Mana o sarira ra byakula usnata upasama kariba paain,
Taa saha dibasa o raatree ek karideba paain
Taaku mana o prana dei nijara karideba paain
Taa kolare nijaku sampura bilina karidebaa paain
Taaku kholi kahideba paain, “Tora astitwa mo paain…..”
Hele mu kana aani paaribi nija bhitare paribartana
Misigale khaali Jharana ra sange?
Jharana helaa saaswata, aau mu alika
Jharana swachha, aau mu aswachha
Jharana mahana, aau mu paartibataa re hina
Jharana asima, aau mu ati simita
Tathaapi, taara sparsa re kinchita paribartana nischita…..
©Shankar D Mishra 24.05.2017
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