Poetry
Surge of Emotion:
Valvalla
A poem by Bhai Vir Singh, translated from Punjabi by Dr YUKTANAND SINGH:
Those summits, where
Wings of reason were
Turned to ashes.
My heart, over and over ...
Soars there.
An unseen cup
Meets my lips ... where
Nectar imbues me
And rocks me tenderly.
‘Scholar’ deters:
“Pipe dreams!” warns he,
“Sans our intellect
The dreamers have drowned.”
“Sit, O scholar!
Behind bars of the intellect
Land of sentiment
Is our love newfound.”
[From ‘Bijliyan De Haar’ (Garlands of Lightning) by Bhai Vir Singh]
April 7, 2018