Write Revolutions On The Wings Of History Poem by Brajendra Nath Mishra

Write Revolutions On The Wings Of History



No stove burns in any house here,
Still you see the rising smoke from the houses.

Palaces tops kiss the sky, but
No one gets a dwelling here.

The greenery seen all around here,
Raise your eyes, look the spreading desert there.

People who sleep on footpath side by side,
See the open sky above them.

You have burnt them one by one,
Sparing none
See the rising sparks from those ashes.

Now dead bodies are awake from those ashes,
See their clenched fists rising in the sky.

The castles will be converted to rubble,
The ruins will tell the stories of all the wreckage.

The masses sleeping hungry stomach
Will write revolutions on the wings of history.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This poem is an English translation of my Hindi poem” Tawarikh ke pankh par likhenge krantiyan” This poem was written at a time when I was a part of JP movement in my student days during 1974-75.This was the first revolution in India to clean up the system which generates corruption. Unfortunately at the end the movement failed to achieve its goals.
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