Poems For Kids

He who died unsung, unheard, for the Motherland, who was he? Countless people gave their lives for the freedom of the country India. We only know about a handful. Others contributed their lives and faded away unsung and forgotten. Here is a touching poem by Hanskumar Tiwari. वह कौन है: हंस कुमार तिवारी मिट्टी वतन की पूछती वह कौन है‚ …

Love requires great deal of efforts and full involvement. It exhausts the lovers. Then if one has to go through the whole process again! It is very difficult to revisit the old lanes and by lanes of love. कैसे भेंट तुम्हारी ले लूँ: हरिवंश राय बच्चन कैसे भेंट तुम्हारी ले लूँ क्या तुम लाई हो चितवन में, क्या तुम लाई हो …

Siblings play a unique role in one another’s lives that simulates the companionship of parents as well as the influence and assistance of friends. Because siblings often grow up in the same household, they have a large amount of exposure to one another, like other members of the immediate family. However, though a sibling relationship can have both hierarchical and …

A Friend Can Save A Life: A Friend Making A Difference That girl’s heart aches, Her smile is fake. The cuts sting, Her phone rings. She ignores And thinks life’s a bore. But she doesn’t know There are people who care. She doesn’t know That they’ve always been there. She’s tired of being joked at school, She’s tired of being …

Life is a temporary phase. We come into this world and leave one day. In between, many get too pre-occupied with hording wealth and name. Indian thought has always considered this tendency madness. Detachment with material things and love for humanity has always been the saintly advice in India. Here is reinforcement of this thought by Neeraj. हम तो मस्त …

A life ends, just like millions of lives end. Nothing very important from a wider perspective. One can analyze all one wants, but the basic fact remains that one life ended just as millions do. A lovely poem by Neeraj. जीवन कट गया: गोपाल दास नीरज जीवन कटना था, कट गया अच्छा कटा, बुरा कटा यह तुम जानो मैं तो यह …

Here is an excerpt from a poem expressing the wishes of a poor poet for his love on her birthday. आज है तेरा जनम दिन, तेरी फुलबगिया में फूल एक और खिल गया है किसी माली का आज की रात तेरी उम्र के कच्चे घर में दीप एक और जलेगा किसी दिवाली का। आज वह दिन है किसी चौक पुरे …

A very powerful poem indeed. When we are young, we have dreams and aspirations. Most of these are never realized. Life passes on and suddenly one day we find ourselves exhausted, past our primes even as our dreams lay shattered. This sentiment is so beautifully captured by Gopal Das Neeraj in this classic poem. The poem was also adopted as …

In this poem, Neeraj exhorts us to keep making efforts and not lose hope. These lines are very similar to what Lord Krishna told Arjuna in Kurukshetra (Geeta Chapter 2, shlokas 35, 36 and 37) खग उड़ते रहना जीवन भर: गोपाल दास नीरज खग! उड़ते रहना जीवन भर! भूल गया है तू अपना पथ‚ और नहीं पंखों में भी गति‚ किंतु …

In this age of mobile phones, internet and emails, here is a poem with old-world charm. Old world where a hand written letter could easily light up a day, a life. Here is a charmer from Neeraj. लिखना चाहूँ भी तुझे खत तो बता कैसे लिखूँ ज्ञात मुझको तो तेरा ठौर ठिकाना भी नहीं दिखना चाहूँ भी तुझे तो मैं …