THE HEAVEN BORN
SUMITRA NANDAN PANT
Translated from Hindi by
Dr B. N. PRASAD
Glued to the sky?
the dead, blue, deep sky?
Looking with eyes open
and
without movement
and lonely
and vacant!
Come back to the earth
spawning, fertile, smiling earth
agog with sound and colours
of murmuring leaves and
flowers!
Tender
and naughty
green fields;
laughing rills,
silky on the rocks.
See the earth
full of fragrant breeze
and fragrant flowers
the birds chirping
the cattle calling
each other
The earth
on which walks man
loved and worshipped by gods.
Yes,
look to the earth
the heavenly earth!