Best Asha Poems

COMING AND GOING
(ASHAJAWA)
Rabindranath Tagore
(Translated by Snehendu Kar)

Love came in such quiet steps
she seemed like a dream.
I failed to welcome her.

As she left,
startled by the sound
of my door 
I rushed to beg her return.

By then my dream was without a form,
vanished into the darkness of the...

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No one knows
The day too short
The night too long
Leave your yesterday
Wait only for tomorrow

No one knows
Not even the sage
Under the blue grass
Buried long long ago
Behind the green moss

No one can know
So lay your fears
Under our secret tree
Better to face us
You first class Liar...

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