Dina Nath Nadim

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A flower spoke to the soil
but its pains remained untold;
the bushes were pruned
...

I WALKED into that room.
I took the raincoat off, set it hanging

On a nail; I spun around
Cold, to consider at length and well
...

A path, running through a field,
ended near a stream.
Over the other bank
...

A hut leaned against a house
counting its days
winter after winter.
...

His colour told me
it was he.
I tried to name him
but
...

A leaf detached from a tree
and
fell dancing upon the earth.
The turf said:
...

A chrysanthemum espied a marigold
and said:
'Why hurry!
Stay a while.
...

By the foot of a hill
a butterfly winged back trembling
to its home.
On the way
...

I dream of tomorrow
When the world will be beautiful !
O how bright the day, how green
the grass !
...

A cloud shinned up a mountain,
a lightning struck it;
it felt helpless
when
...

A road jumped into a lane;
darkness was rooted there.
Two doors closeby
whispered
...

In the mid summer

the leaves of young poplars
fell.
Only a few leaves
crowned them;
...

I will not sing today,
I will not sing
of roses and of bulbuls
of irises and hyacinths
...

A thin stream
flowed down the hill
like a king.
...

Spring-wind passed by our door
and
with restive fingers
beat its breast.
...

A plant irritably said to the slope:
'You have held my feet.
I crave for
a jump
...

The crows shouted
for
they knew not how to spend the leisure;
the nightingales adorned their nests,
...

18.

Such are days I can believe the moon to be
Unleavened bread, but for scars I see unseam
A neck so collared in every dissolute color; I’ll believe,
...

The topmost branch of a tree
trembled in the early morning
...

Two eyes gazed out of a window
and then
came the wind.
...

Dina Nath Nadim Biography

Dinanath Nadim (दीनानाथ नादिम) was a prominent Kashmiri poet of the 20th century. He was born in Srinagar city and with him began an era of modern Kashmiri poetry. He also virtually led the progressive writers movement in Kashmir. Rooted to the soil of Kashmir, Nadim's language was spoken Kashmiri, though he initially wrote in Hindi and Urdu as well. He influenced a large group of poets of his age as well as younger than him. Nadim also wrote operas like Vitasta ( Jhelum River ), Safar Taa Shehjaar ( The Journey And The shade )Heemaal Taa Naaegrai ( Heemaal and Naagraaj ), Shuhul Kull ( The Shady Tree ) and Bombur Taa yamberzal( Bumble Bee And The Narcissus Flower), the most popular being Bombur Taa yamberzal', which was the first opera to be published in Kashmiri. Me Chhum Aash Paghich (I am hopeful of tomorrow) is the most powerful Anti war poem in Kashmiri which Nadim wrote.)

The Best Poem Of Dina Nath Nadim

A Flower Spoke To The Soil

A flower spoke to the soil
but its pains remained untold;
the bushes were pruned
but
they were trapped in snow.

They say the garden is abloom,
the sunshine washes the flowerbeds
and the cool reigns.

[Translated by Arvind Gigoo]

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