MY DARLING DAD

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My Darling Dad 
English Translation: MB Pradhan

Sandhya Regmi with renowned writer, poet & translator MB Pradhan

 

MB Pradhan reciting Sandhya's translated poem, July 2012

My Darling Dad

 

Lively undying turf you are

Of my life's garden of flowers

An embodiment of dogged determination

Invincible courage and persistency

Uprooted even and  flung anywhere

you resurrect with equal vibrancy

With roots and boughs intact and alive

Tender shoots of cultural eminence

Untiring patience and endurance

Living landmark you are standing aloft

Of sweet elevating blessings anew

Worthy decoration of life's long quest.

Lotus of magnetic comeliness

Aroma of amazing exuberance

You are a bloom elegant

A smile so eloquent

Rarity of earth unparallel

You are a gem, a lone fighter

Much alike a lotus in a muddy water

Omnipresent and powerful

Source of infinite light and life

Incinerated in cauldron High up in the sky

You  guide people from down under

From darkness to light.

Adored as a martyr

For ever and ever

You are an eternal source of inspiration

Of high ideals and renunciation.

Sacrificed everything you have

Braving bullets and bayonets

Enthused and enlivened many

Celestial evergreen and immortal

You are constant and unruffled

An undivided whole

Embedded deeply in reverence and trust

transformed  you as a great soul

Emerged out from sentient creatures.

Everlasting and indestructible

The highest being you are

Unshaken and undivided

Securely settled on foundation firm

Of granite's trust and reliance

You are the creation par excellence

From  sublime sentient souls.