Five poems by Kunwar Narain

 Five poems by Kunwar Narain 

I request the readers to read the poem 'A sparrow's song from the above link and then the review. Thanks.

The following stanzas highlight how dry and mundane life we are leading. Nature and her different species coexist with us. We have been nearly blind to their lives, their ways of bonding, their subtle messages to us through their lives:

A sparrow grew fond of father
in his last days, it would come
and sit beside him
beholding him for hours;

Father used to say, from its eyes
gazed a mother’s doting soul.

A bird chirrups a song somewhere
far in a cluster of trees, perhaps
sings to its fledglings
some quaint little song
in a tongue of its own
that all the world’s languages echo
in motley ways

I want it to fly and come to me,
sit close to me, sing to me
its own songs first,
then those songs of mine
I may never be able to write now...

Whatever a layman's eyes miss the poet's never miss. The poet can swap eras, transcend worlds and empathize with not only with fellowmen but the other species too. Our life and routine has no space for remembering we are one with nature and we ended up understanding exploitation of nature is the only connect for us. Kunwar Narain's poems are that of a loner in an urban maddening crowd.