3 ways of looking at Meeraji

1. The classical is weight as well as fetter, the gravitas choking the possible
2. Meeraji (1912-1949) can most aptly be described as a “tragic” poet, where the tragic is silent on the joy infusing his song
3. i. The guardian of the past is calm / standing fearless and firm on earth
   ii. magar ye maazi ka paasbaaN pur sukoon dil se / zameeN pe ik be-niyaaz andaaz may hai qaaim
   iii. Father fear, can you calm the
   — possibility of fear,
   — the child alone in the knowledge of fire,
   — the woman quiet as the burn within rages without?
   

It took calm to hoard sea-blessing

It took calm to hoard sea-blessing,
    earth-char, mountain-hark     it took
    all the strangeness that the mussels
    could gather midstream to bring

Song to flute, need to burn, soothe to
    tremor     it took hearsay, birdflit,
    hearttick to overcome flight, reduce
    roadtear, become multipludinous -