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Winners of Poetry Contest!!


Poetry Contest

In light of our recently held poetry contest themed around Valentine's Day, these two Fabulous poems have won it! 


Winners: 

Sharvari Sumant (English)

Atharva Dendge (Marathi)


English:

God forbid

No, I do not wish to forget you, 

You took too much of my time to be able to do that now,

But now that I think of it, how do I fill up

The space in my mind that you created

But God forbid if I still miss you.

It would be too cliche if I say you were my everything,

Yet too much of a lie to say you were not

The way i was stuck amidst your flummox

It's ironic, really, how you're the only solution to it,

But God forbid if I still miss you.

How could you be my disease as well as my medicine at the same time?

I never liked how much of a fantasy you seem, 

Even though you were the only reality I saw at the time

Follow your dreams, they said, so I followed you

But God forbid if I still miss you.

Now come solve this puzzle you made,

Blame yourself for having the audacity to look so fine,Keeping me up at the darkest of hours,You must take responsibility no matter how much you aren't at fault,Hush, God forbid if I still miss you.

The more I wanted you, the more reality dragged me further away from you;

Like a tandem, then giving me hopes by showing short glimpses

As though mocking me- "come look at what you can't have!"

And even if I hate to admit, I did go look,

But God forbid if I still miss you.

It's funny how I saw how utterly clueless you were 

Of my hopelessly huge heart for you,

I wrote and wrote, in my diary and mind, 

But alas, the feelings still remain bound in words,

No really! God forbid if I still miss you.

I still don't regret fixing my hair before you came by,

Nor do I regret all of the things I wrote with you as subject,

The codes I made, and the times I used them as passwords 

But it will depress me how wrong the time wasYet God forbid if I still miss you.

Decades later we'll laugh and cry 


- Sharvari Sumant


Marathi:

बदलले सारे तरीही आपुले तैसेच आहे


भेटल्यावरती तुझे ते लाजणे तैसेच आहे



हरवतांना प्रेम होउन एकमेका साथ देउन


तू तुला डोळ्यांत माझ्या शोधणे तैसेच आहे



वेदनांच्या पावसाने पापण्या भिजल्या तरीही


हे तुझ्या ओठांवरीचे हासणे तैसेच आहे



एकट्या रात्री विजेचा कापरा आवाज येता


बावरे होऊन मजला बिलगणे तैसेच आहे



 अजुनि एकांतात माझे छेडणे तव कुंतलांना


अन तुझे नजरेतुनी मज स्पर्शने तैसेच आहे



ते बहाणे लाजण्याचे ते बहाणे भेटण्याचे


आठवूनी का अथर्वा जागणे तैसेच आहे

- Atharva Dendge

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