Introduction to the Poet:
Aanchal Munjal is an assistant professor, department of English, Chandigarh University. She has been teaching almost for five years. Aanchal is an MA in English from Kurukshetra University and M. Phil from Madurai Kamaraj University, TN. The poems below are originally in Hindi, written by Dr. Manish Goswami, univ. of Chandigarh.
Certainty in Uncertainty
In the uncertainty
of things if anything
is certain – It’s you.
Job, land, house,
place and city
nothing is long-lasting
certain is – God.
Not certain for the river
where to go
where to flow swift
where slow
only thing certain
to forge ahead.
Education makes – Literate
not gives the certainty of job
decency – is certain for a literate
not certain to become – a millionaire.
Righteousness – is certain of a righteous
yet does not certain anything
not money, not even
body and mind
even if
that remains barely fine
but the mind of
a righteous – never waves.
Certain for an honest
not to be encircled by
the troubles which
encircle – the dishonest
in uncertainty.
The certainty to
have a baby boy
has made the life
of innumerable daughters – uncertain
yet the joys were not
certain associated with
the birth of a baby boy.
Killed the rights of
many poor by brooding
over our own poverty
yet uncertain
for a merchant and politician
in which country and condition
will be fostered their
grandson and the great grandson
and
to bring you in this world
my own existence became
uncertain.
The House Speaks
My brother!
even after many years
I failed to become your home
the house regrets and speaks.
Fool! Don’t sale it
house speaks
my father poured
blood instead of water
in its mud mortar.
You Shameless!
you made in it STD-PCO
house speaks
mother reiterated
father to make it
for our comfort.
In dignity you speak
my brother is pleased
to pay huge money for the house
but, Is the reason to be happy?
You don’t have a
heart of stone that ever sale me
and by the way
sleep on footpath
with a bag of money
after selling me.
How foolish this man is!
speak the houses among themselves
the onion potatoes will
not get costly
if he overlaid us.
The house speaks
how clever this contractor is
who calls me a house
but considers me a shop.
Roof
One__
Sky – A roof
God bestowed upon every man
still a man wished for another one.
Two__
Almost, everyone should have
a roof either his own or on rent.
Three__
didn’t matter
the roof belonged to us
or to others but
remained glorious
till father was there.
Four__
Flats in lakhs
bunglows in million
in rented house or in hut
the roof remains over head
but these days
very less we stand
on our own roof.
Five__
In the word of wafers
will not forget to make
potato chips on roof.
Six__
On roof we will meet
the moon
with moon we will meet
the stars…
life will exist on a star
where we will meet the
parted souls.