“Where the mind is widout fear
& the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not ben
broken up in2 fragments by
narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from
the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches
its arms 2wards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way in2 the dreary
desert s& of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead 4ward by thee
in2 ever-widening thought & action-
In2 that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.”
15 August Short Poems For Kids
My sleep got disturbd, thrice that day;
I could not sleep tho’ a holiday;
My mind was filled wid thoughts unclear;
I got up in the morn, much earlier;
‘Twas India’s Independence Day!
Thunder, lightning filled the night’s Sky;
The day much overcast did fly;
The Rain was just a drizzle that day;
Wetted the ground of mud & clay;
‘Twas 15th of August, a rainy day.
The pea-birds howled & groaned that night;
The Rain made them shiver wid fright;
Though ten, it looked like six in the morn;
The Sun bhind the clouds had gone;
The Sky ground-glass remained that day.
The leaky tap-waters that fell,
Raised wavelets, ploppy-2ned & swell;
Rain-drops on cables looked like pearls;
Dropped, 4med again, enticing souls;
It looked it would rain long that day.
Rain-drops hanging bneath fir-twigs;
Glittered in the scarce light like figs;
The whole tree was aglow, alit;
A thing of bauty, don’t miss it!
The Sky looked like a barred-white board!
A frail, brown-skinned, bony human,
wid sack on head, bnt-back, he ran!
The Indian was agonizing!
Tho’ people keep sermonizing!
Fifty years after Independence!
What good was done 4 the common-man?
btter than Heaven or Arcadia
I love thee, O my India!
& thy love I shall give
2 every brother nation that lives.
God made the Earth;
Man made confining countries
& their fancy-frozen boundaries.
But wid unfound boundless love
I bhold the borderl& of my India
Exp&ing in2 the World.
Hail, mother of religions, lotus, scenic bauty,
& sages!
Thy wide doors r open,
Welcoming God’s true sons through all ages.
Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, &
men dream God –
I am hallowed; my body 2uched that sod
15 August 2016 Kavita in Hindi
लाल Kille के आस पास है aajadi का मेला
सब से upar नाच राहा हैं झंडा एक अकेला
कदम badhake सिना taane फौजी aate जा ते
शुद्ध नौ दो ग्यारह नौ दो ग्यारह Bache सारे chane कुरकुरे khate
Sabhi kahte hain आज के दीन aajad huatha देश
Sabhi kahte hain आज के दीन angrejon का राज huatha Sesh
अभि कुछ ना samajh करने आये aajaadi Aur Desh
एसई देख rahein hain पतंग पतंग Ke pesh chhat को गुनगुनाने
हमसे कोई puche bachon aajaadi क्या होती Hai
गुंजन हमें दीन sabki पुरी chhuti होती Hai kahdenge
