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Saturday, February 24, 2018
By chance
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
On board
to survive.
I can no longer bank
on my merits.
I am light.
Despite losing
last drop of love,
I put on record
until far-off breath
as far as
finishing bead of blood.
My zeal to be
lays all the feathers
as cards, on the table
keeps me on board.
Beat
where it flows, when it breaks
peu importe
mud to mud
one way
why it cracks, how it supports
peu importe
being maneuvers
different steps
heart to heart
one mind
journeys vary
beliefs
pointlessly claim
crossing paths.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Once upon a time
for the sun and the moon
it wonders
what if they'd make love
or would they war
burn starts to write
a thousand times
same words, same stories
of their making love
in blinking witness…
On my petal
they journey through the mess
falling in love and failing
their hearts
replete with tenderness
glowing
released back to another bed
sky
in between them
stands miles of silence.
Recollection of togetherness,
being one
once upon a time
shine
as bygone memories.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Unassuming
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Blank
good riddance.
Children of my world
playing rape-rape game
shoot-shoot game
right in their schools
like hide and seek of the yore
innocuous, pure
the bigger kids must be
heading somewhere
towards progress
with all of them.
Inside
I am listless
I re-read the lines
of the pied piper.
Note:
The poem is in response to children shooting each other, playing rape games in schools.
Reference: The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Friday, February 9, 2018
Passage
do not hold the brush of others
it will distort the image
same colors speak a strange language
canvas will appear distant
bits will mimic
alien speech
not me!
work will screech.
Singing a rehearsed song
can hardly emerge 'you'
with all that is confirmed,
worked, attuned.
You, a stream
falling without wisdom
who it will meet
you, a flower that blooms
without a clue
of time and space
it will please whom
with its color, grace
you, a drop of dew
drowning in the depth of dust
its certain death it can only trust.
Your place may be beneath others
like a blade of forgotten grass
or above the kingdom of clouds
it is you, your text, your own words
dancing in the middle of watching eyes
moving
fall and rise of stars
whispering to you who you are
experiences will surface in time
from the bed of blues breaking into light
expressions
poem of life you write
actions black and white
is all that matters
in what your life offers.
Others might have their ways to recover
through their looks you do not cower
your painting
beyond right or wrong,
path you ceaselessly pass
a river
that cannot take sides
thanks to its banks
immersed in its space
breathing life, its hues
murmur in passing
it's you, it's you.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
A fare
like flies
sacrifice their lives
word by word
burn in light
death in the leaves
bounces back to life
quasi-true stories
reflect
in eager eyes
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Critizens
in a circus
everyone plays their
restricted role
being out of the vicious cycle
is but a theoretical goal
citizens criticize to entertain
thinking out of the box
is perhaps easy
but while doing, we shrink,
go wild and crazy.
Blame,
be trapped in the losing game
Trick with talk,
on which the being will seldom walk
Do,
be free for good, from the zoo.
Get out of here
I breathe in, breathe out.
What? Without money, how?
I breathe in, breathe out.
No! But what do you do for a living?
I breathe in, breathe out.
You are draining your savings, what'll you do?
I'll breathe in, breathe out.
How do you deal with people?
I breathe in, breathe out.
When they call you names?
I breathe in, breathe out.
But how do you survive?
I breathe in, breathe out.
Get out of here!
Monday, February 5, 2018
Life lies
spring, autumn, winter.
It could be even more
we lost count of the exact figure.
Suddenly, by liars we are told
we are no longer young, we’re old!
We are unable to speak for ourselves
is that the reason you left us
in one silly corner of the home?
Guests come and go
hear their babble, footsteps
not allowed to participate
with life anymore.
And we get know, there are poorer cousins
woebegone like us,
waiting for their days in morbid old homes?
You are expecting us to die? Why!
We are fragile, not that bold
we depend on you, breathe hazy
sounds of phlegm rest in our chests
forks and spoons we are unable to hold
overgrown bones, we may not walk straight
be as civil and presentable, yet the flame inside
burning just the same.
We had been your child’s best friends
your pets love us for sure
our parents, don’t you remember them
had their say in every matter of the game?
We’d say, ‘older people are darlings of all homes
that make a worked up den a garden’
don’t you recall those bed time stories we shared then?
We won’t lie
however aged we may be
will never be old enough to die,
as long as we’re breathing the same air
don’t push us farther and farther
the blokes are alive, your father and mother
a song we sing as passing birds
include us ahoy
life lies in us seasoned with joy
it can also ease your stressful world.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Dawning
Revelation
simple, unmasked, eureka of Archimedes; wake up from this waking state,
Révélation
Révélation
Quand le soleil s’est effondré
sur mon lit,
j’étais encore ivre de rêves.
Je savais—comme tous
les jours—qu’il me faudrait
m’arrêter.
Sous l’emprise de l’astre
alcoolique,
j’ai oublié mes luttes avec
les mots sombres,
ces ombres qui prenaient
visage,
qui criaient des noms,
puis, d’un souffle,
s’évanouirent.
Les peurs bleues devenaient
illusion,
comme le bug de l’an
deux mille—
le ciel ne s’effondra pas.
Et pourtant, je l’avais imaginé :
un soleil en chute libre,
comme une étoile filante,
percute la terre
pour tout changer.
Je me suis levé.
Marché dans le jour,
rencontré des visages,
arpenté mes pas couleur
châtaigne,
j’ai écrit—parlé de prêtres
et de moineaux—
ignorant mille récits
d’oppression,
de haine, de silences
trahis.
Mais les rayons ont
leur effet.
Le soir venu,
la lune s’est élevée
comme une fleur blanche.
Et dans le noir, tout
devint clair.
Je me suis retrouvé—
somnambule—
dans mon propre lit,
mort de mots.
Mes yeux insomniaques
attendaient l’aube fraîche,
des gouttes d’espoir
sur les herbes endormies.
Un Archimède sans cri
trouve son eurêka :
Se lever,
non pas ébloui du dehors,
mais d’un feu intérieur,
purement sien.
Mais les mêmes récits
reviennent—trahisons,
départs sans au revoir,
un autre voyage inassouvi.
Et l’on s’endort de l’autre
côté du sommeil,
repassant le monde.
« Maintenant », dis-je.
Mais l’instant n’écoute pas.
L’insomnie endormie marche
sur moi,
comme une marée d’ombres
lentes,
des nuits nombreuses,
où je suis à la fois veilleur
et naufragé—
bleu d’océan,
bleu d’absence.
Avec la lune surgit
le désir de fuir,
de voir tomber une étoile
et croire qu’il s’agit du soleil,
pour que le monde,
dans ses péchés répétés,
refuse enfin de se réveiller—
et brûle.
কাজের কথা
ইতিহাসে বাঁধা, কথা আর কাজ
কথা-কাজের যুদ্ধ থেকে বিশ্ব মুক্তি চায়
Selected for the Amaravati Poetic Prism 2017