तीन कविताएं/तीन कवि

Summary

The poem "Tripti" by Upendra Kumar expresses a desire to fully experience a moment of self-satisfaction and contentment. The speaker wishes to sit silently like a stone or a dead sea for just a short while, an epoch. They ask not to be pulled out of this state of mind, like a cloud that has already rained, and not to be called by any of countless names. The speaker wants to observe birth, death, life, sin, virtue, past, present, future, and time, allowing them to come and pass without touching. They wish to forget the world and their own presence, as they never truly existed, and to have their poems and songs forgotten because they created or sang nothing meaningful. The text also includes poems by Kumar Virendra and Anamika. Virendra's poem depicts someone repeatedly falling with a loud sound echoing in all directions, someone whose face is clearly reflected on the horizon, someone who has stopped crying and is being tickled by fireflies, someone speaking despite a cloth stuffed in their mouth, making flax flowers restless, and someone beating the earth with sticks, stopped only by a lone child pushing time with their feet. Anamika's poem describes someone learning subtraction, realizing that continuous subtraction reduces even the largest number to zero, and if anything remains, it is like a bird's signature in dust. They learn that continuous growth reduces even the largest giant to the size of a dwarf's nose on the distant horizon. The result of multiplication-division is zero, and the result of running-racing is zero, yet zero is a very large drop from the world's juiciest fruit.