5 poems by Niladri Mahajan

An award winning bilingual poet, author of Poetry books- "A Diffused Room" and “Aura of Light”, a counselling psychologist, Niladri Mahajan lives in Kolkata, India. His poems are translated into French, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese and Italian. He is also a PhD student in Bioinformatics of Calcutta University. He is trained in Eastern and Western Classical music, is also participated in three group painting and photography exhibitions in recent past, and active as a street photographer, watercolour artist. He loves to do long afternoon walks, scuba diving and gliding.

 

Akahwina mikombe munyori anonyora nomitauro miviri, munyori wemabhuku enhetembo “Imba yakapfapfaidzwa” uye “Uromba hwemwenje”, dokotera anorapa pfungwa, Naladri Mahajan anogara kuguta reKolkota, Indiya. Nhetembo dzake dzakaturikirwa muchiFrench, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese uye Itariana. Mudzidzi wezvidzidzo zvepamusoro pauniversity zvefilosofi dhokotera mune zvokufambisa mashoko mukati memuviri paCulcutta Univhesiti. Akadzidziswa nezvemimhanzi yokumabvazuva neyekumadokero yechinyakare, uye akabatana nevamwe mukushambadzirwa kwezvemifananidzo yokupenda uye mipikicha yekamera munguva yapfuura, uye anowanikwa kazhinji achitora mipikicha munzira dzomudhorobha, uye kupenda. Anofarira

Maple Leaves

This morning light is a winter...

When I am in deep muse,

Spreads the snow

Beneath the deepest nature.

 Mashizha eMepuru

Rujeko rwemangwanani ano mwaka wechando…

Apo ndinenge ndiri mukufunga kwakadzama,

Unopararidzira chando

Kuenda pasi pasi pezvisikwa

You     

My offerings are

Only one word… you!

I murmured it slowly

As a never ending

Burning of an incense stick.

 Iwe

Zvipirwa zvangu ndizvo

Rimwechete izwi… iwe!

Ndakarizevezera zvinyoronyoro

Kunge chisingaperi

Kupiswa kwemuti weInisenzi

What is life?

Simplify all the figures

That’s in front of you.

Are you still angry?

This is not geometry

With a compass

And pencil, I know.

But I reflect you

As long as you are willing

To answer my questions

There.

Chii Chinonzi Hupenyu?

Tsanangura yose miviri

Zviri pamberi pako.

Wakachangogumbuka here?

Iyi haisi dzidziso yemiviri

Ine nhongedzo yenzira

Uye penzura, ndinozviziva.

Asi ndinoratidza iwe

Chete pose pauchange uchida

Kupindura mibvunzo yangu

Ipapo

First Love

An image… melting

Behind the frosty glass.

A steamy landscape.

Death-white. Coloured.

Rudo Rwokutanga

Mufananidzo… urikunyunguduka

Kuseri kwegirazi ravharwa nechando mhute.

Dunhu rine kufashaira

Kufa-kuchena. Rine mivara

My Kind Of Girl

                    

You are worst of everything

And sweet of nothing, any phrase

Defers you, in this habitual way.

Usually, it not fits you at all.

 Mhando Yomusikana Wangu

Wakashata mune zvose

Uye usina paunotapira, chipi chirahwe

Hachikubvumi, mune mukuita uku.

Kazhinji, hachikufiti kana zvacho

 Translation into Shona by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a Zimbabwean publisher, editor, translator, mentor, writer, visual artist and musical artist with close to 30 books published, more here: http://www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/tendai-rinos-mwanaka. He writes in English and Shona. His work has appeared in over 400 journals and anthologies from over 30 countries. Work has been translated into Spanish, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Hungarian, French and German.