I am reading about astronomy these days, what are nakshatras, asterisms etc. Here is a poem by Dushyant Kumar, very much different from his usual style, that talks about eclipse and a women’s beauty. I find these poems, that club human love with Nature’s beauty, to be brilliant.

सध्य्स्रात तुम,
जब आती हो,
मुख कुन्तलों से ढका रहता है,
बहुत बुरे लगते हैं वो क्षण जब,
राहू से काल ग्रसा रहता है* !
( सध्य्स्रात = one who has just bathed ,
.कुन्तल = hair
राहू = an imaginary planet/demon which eats up sun and moon causing solar/lunar eclipses )

पर जब तुम
केश झटक देती हो अनायास
तारों सी बूँदें
बिखर जातीं हैं आसपास
मुक्त हो जाता है चाँद*
तब बहुत भला लगता है!

( अनायास = sudden
* this refers to passing of an eclipse )

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