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Poetry<br />

FIVE POEMS<br />

Nilesh Raghuvanshi<br />

Translated by<br />

Shalini<br />

The Urn<br />

The ancient and beautiful urn,<br />

grain and water are where now kept<br />

Used to house dreams earlier<br />

which today have often wept.<br />

When she got married,<br />

the girl had brought this urn<br />

with her from her mother’s home.<br />

The door of her house she<br />

would have seen in it<br />

on that entire journey.<br />

Her childhood stuffed in it,<br />

The urn was filled with her star-soaked dreams.<br />

The girl is no more.<br />

No more are the star-studded days,<br />

nor the enchanting dreams.<br />

April-June 2010 :: 61

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