tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49824761971622748892024-02-21T08:13:19.694+05:30Abin's literary worldwhere dreams may cross,without wavering between profit and lossUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-75970306530923347402020-10-25T10:45:00.003+05:302020-10-25T10:45:48.062+05:30Silence and Self<p> Life is not just in bursts of noise.</p><p>It throbs within silence as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>In sighs that are dewed in letters of love,</p><p>In incense that floats to stained opaque glass</p><p>In sketches that ripple with unceasing waves</p><p>In fragrance that wafts from an orchard in bloom</p><p>In dreams that are way beyond words.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why then this clamour for </p><p>Conch bell and shrieks</p><p>From those who seek refuge in pause?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather I'll soak the quietness of nights</p><p>When no festive howls are heard</p><p>And fuse within veins some lavender and oak</p><p>That bear the still centre of time.</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-39014139348266525612020-09-27T10:32:00.005+05:302020-09-27T11:21:07.751+05:30Perhaps<p> The effort wasn't lacking, you see.</p><p>I tried all the lessons</p><p>and danced to all tunes,</p><p>But somehow or the other</p><p>Nothing ever clicked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead I am stuck </p><p>As a bell that won't chime</p><p>A buyer without dime</p><p>A machine without time</p><p>A line that won't rhyme</p><p>And only some dollops</p><p>Of malodorous slime.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be that as it may.</p><p> </p><p>Perhaps this is where I'll bloom.</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-35662731008267728012020-08-06T22:01:00.003+05:302020-08-06T22:01:30.377+05:30Boom<p> I jump through the hoops and vault over poles</p><p>And trapeze in the air over moth-eaten mats</p><p>Hoping for at least some perfunctory claps</p><p>To tide over dull barren days.</p><p><br /></p><p>But each long night new hurdles conjures,</p><p>And throwing a sack over unprepared eyes</p><p>Stuffs me in a canon and lights up the fuse</p><p>To heave my skin over gravel and thorn,</p><p>All to eke laughters from crowds.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hobbling and stumbling with torn tattered rags</p><p>I roleplay the loon and tighten all cords</p><p>And wait for the detonating boom.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-82052882376188141632020-07-13T21:19:00.000+05:302020-07-13T21:19:37.882+05:30Scenes of Blight<div>Dry leaves waft in the lengthening shadows of day</div><div>As I gaze at the moss, the cracks </div><div>and the walls that have all turned gray.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here in the morass of glimmers of past</div><div>The rust on the shutters of long-locked shops</div><div>Have fused with the layers of dust.</div><div><br /></div><div>The hoardings are down, the neon lights gone</div><div>The flags and the festoons are vanished or torn.</div><div><br /></div><div>No crowd no light no cheer from a herd</div><div>Under these roofs will be seen or heard.</div><div><br /></div><div>Only the walls, splintered and peeled</div><div>Will stand and witness the weather worn streets</div><div>And mourn what is missing and lost.</div><div><br /></div><div>Such too are scenes you might find</div><div>In some human ties that bind.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-7120638622367372572020-07-10T20:35:00.001+05:302020-07-10T20:35:50.752+05:30Twilight Trance<span style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="3">The muslin twilight spreads over skin<br />And reawakens in pores<br />Some memories of falls<br />Blurred and worn<br />But fragrant with nicotine and sandalwood soap<br />That plays on the breeze some sonata on flute<br />Which chimes with the rhythm of your touch<br />And lulls my whole city to a sleep.<br /><br />Till screams of headlines on channels intrude<br />And dash us into earth as we drown.</font></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-53823351863678914662020-06-16T20:55:00.000+05:302020-06-16T20:57:30.762+05:30Abinash C. Halder Muses on a SuicideWhen someone your age<br />
But famous and great<br />
Plunges in the darkness<br />
You longed to embrace<br />
Halt in your tracks and ponder<br />
On life's many blessings and wonder.<br />
<br />
Veiled in his tower <br />
He vainly had sought<br />
A sympathetic heart<br />
A pat on the back.<br />
But robbed off of succour of validation craved<br />
He shut himself in and finally he caved.<br />
<br />
Whatever the notions others might nurse<br />
His voice in your veins still pulses as verse<br />
And behind features of people you know<br />
His shadow does lurk and sway and glow.<br />
<br />
Bid him farewell as you cherish his smile<br />
And don't let the world either kill or beguile.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-53967940040688329612020-04-14T17:27:00.002+05:302020-06-16T21:25:52.715+05:30Abinash C. Halder in Lockdown"Mephistophilis<i>: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris"</i><br />
- Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe<br />
<br />
Inch by inch I slip into the crack <br />
And find myself caught in the chaos that breeds<br />
Deep within skull's Hidden caves.<br />
<br />
Restless, enraged, it thrashes and snarls<br />
And growls with gnashing of carnivorous teeth<br />
That reek with the stench of all filth.<br />
<br />
No words, no tunes no shapes can tame<br />
This beast beyond language and shame.<br />
<br />
So I switch off all the lights <br />
and lock up all the doors<br />
And burying my head within hands I pray<br />
For a time when others can suffer and stew<br />
In a world where each of my nightmares is true.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-24407617790437052020-03-08T20:40:00.002+05:302020-03-08T20:40:58.228+05:30Andrea to Proserpine<div style="text-align: justify;">
Our poems amid stars exchange their codes</div>
And send to my soul the seeds of new odes.<br />
So I read up my Keats as you hone your Plath<br />
And hope someday for a crossing in our path<br />
Where free from the shackles of history and age<br />
I, in your eyes, may turn a new page<br />
And write new lines of an autumnal hymn<br />
To heal those wounds so deep and grim.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile my lips a parched spring endure<br />
As I hanker, a fool, in silence, unsure.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-77237327887011706912016-06-12T00:31:00.002+05:302016-06-12T00:31:53.880+05:30Excuse for RhymeA black and white face<br />
with slant little gaze<br />
tugs at the heartstrings<br />
in unusual ways<br />
and croons a new ballad<br />
of soft purple days<br />
tinted with twilighted rays that'll lace<br />
my prayers with the incense of grace.<br />
<br />
My lines that'll lilt<br />
with such juvenile rhymes<br />
on which neither muse<br />
nor cupid now shines<br />
are fit but for irrelevant sighs.<br />
<br />
So gather your tickets and fly;<br />
I who just deal in sarcastic words<br />
will neither lose sleep or cry.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-27933403152774366382016-03-19T10:41:00.000+05:302016-03-19T10:41:00.718+05:30LongingIn the silence that clings,<br />
I wear your words<br />
like a scarf around heart<br />
and brace for unwelcome winds.<br />
<br />
Choirs of our trees are in mourning by now<br />
and blossoms are in indefinite strike.<br />
<br />
I've left your address to migrating birds<br />
whose elegies in south<br />
will bring to your heart<br />
the fragrance of my fallen leaves.<br />
<br />
Be gentle when you listen to their lines,<br />
my veins I've lent to their notes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-70317074295126583002016-02-18T23:39:00.004+05:302016-02-18T23:39:48.098+05:30Other ShoresI know there are circles my friends<br />
where you cringe to be joined to my name.<br />
A misfit for so long, so well<br />
I wasn't saddened or stunned<br />
to know of your intents concealed.<br />
<br />
Yours be the dances and drinks.<br />
Yours be the groupfies of joy.<br />
Chosen, I only could make<br />
a grey little corner all blurred.<br />
<br />
Unwell in brightest of lights,<br />
I'll flicker as I do<br />
in a dim little niche<br />
and offer you a chat without guilt,<br />
provided you call me at least.<br />
<br />
Zen-like I walk along quays<br />
and gaze at the untiring waves,<br />
which yet sing of stillness of change.<br />
<br />
What service in bringing too close,<br />
currents that are meant to diverge?<br />
<br />
So I float to the rhythms of heart<br />
and leaving apart old sullen ways<br />
search for new kindred points<br />
glimmering on yet unknown shores.<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-24047209450693513222016-02-14T10:25:00.000+05:302016-02-19T09:03:26.934+05:30Confessiones Ignorat<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When the canopy of illusion is lost</div>
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The torrents of truth batter hard.</div>
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Ringed by the circles of distrust and scorn</div>
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And titanium shackles of hypocratic oaths</div>
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I am lost in the dungeons of solitude enforced</div>
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With too little light in my view.</div>
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I know I have built up these walls</div>
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But hoped there are souls that’d feel</div>
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A thrill for all they concealed.</div>
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All that remains are fragments of a soul</div>
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That no longer hopes to be heard - </div>
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Only the whispers in corridors of self</div>
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That roam through the chambers of skull.</div>
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To a lost friend:</div>
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I know I’d breached your trust</div>
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With deeds that cannot be undone.</div>
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If only you dared to forgive...</div>
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O what wonders we would gain!</div>
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To a classmate:</div>
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If only you knew the power of a call</div>
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And reciprocal gestures of faith!</div>
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In all of your trials I stood;</div>
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But lost when you found your bliss.</div>
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To a mistake:</div>
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I pity that the best of my past</div>
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Is tainted with your brittle words,</div>
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And antics of operatic stunts</div>
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That still keep on scratching my walls</div>
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With signs of desiccated pleas.</div>
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Memories in dialogic mode</div>
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Mingle and mash up in medleys of loss</div>
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And open up a canvas of inadequate lines</div>
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That yield only angles of shame.</div>
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But here are no great blessed eyes</div>
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That’ll scan my being to the core</div>
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Or with visions of multifoliate rose</div>
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Will uplift from dust my constricted soul</div>
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To rivers of sanctifying waves.</div>
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Here on the shores of waves warring rocks</div>
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I search for a flute that’ll calm all its rage</div>
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And gasp amidst currents untracked.</div>
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<br /></div>
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To another lost friend:</div>
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You were right when you said</div>
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I have too much that is locked</div>
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And too much with no access left.</div>
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But why didn’t you dare to batter them down</div>
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When you found all the hammers that I hid?</div>
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<br /></div>
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I know I am not sunshine on plains</div>
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Or a plain little frankincense dawn:</div>
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But aren’t there those who’ll warm to a chase</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And pick up the gauntlet I left?</div>
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<br /></div>
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To an admirer:</div>
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My moralistic self is too much of a bore</div>
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And can be all brutish at times.</div>
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But still do I feel</div>
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The pulse of your dance</div>
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And marvel at the honesty I missed.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Bogged within rooms full of too many in masks</div>
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I’ve cowered behind armours of pose.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An extended hand is
taken to be cut,</div>
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A soft spoken word as sign of distress,</div>
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Modesty in speech as arrogance imbued</div>
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Lost within books as narcissism rife:</div>
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Such are the ways of life in this world</div>
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Which only knows opposites of good.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Yet on the overcast mornings of spring</div>
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With birds all aflutter in trees,</div>
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I gaze to the horizon of light dappled clouds</div>
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And feel in my breath a moistness of breeze</div>
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That blows from the seas to my shores.</div>
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And all of my cloaks of loneliness and loss</div>
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Lift up and leave with lightness of dust</div>
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And awaken the prayers I was taught:</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Let me be free within expanse of light</div>
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All beneath canopies of sky</div>
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Let me be free within branches of leaves </div>
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And atoms of dust and grass</div>
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Let me be free from vanity and lust</div>
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And all else that gnaws at our heart.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Let me be free from the nets of this world</div>
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And search for the peace among stars.” </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-60102106928914493422016-01-03T20:19:00.000+05:302016-01-03T20:19:04.208+05:30Dastaan-e-KashmirA TRILOGY YOU WOULD LIKE....<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.prachyareview.com/poems-by-abin-chakraborty/" target="_blank">Poems in Prachya Review</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-16618027880634434682015-03-13T19:38:00.002+05:302015-03-13T19:38:35.612+05:30FootnoteHer lithe lissome figure<br />
had flashed as a whip<br />
and stirred all my senses ablaze.<br />
<br />
But one little turn and gone -<br />
as a footnote in eye's varied page.<br />
<br />
Stranded,<br />
I pondered on a fact<br />
that few of our sages have taught:<br />
depending on angles of sight<br />
a footnote is greater than a tome.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-46417219834624073052015-01-12T12:29:00.000+05:302015-01-12T12:29:58.326+05:30ParisThe city of love has fear in its air<br />
and winter has bled dire red.<br />
The cafes along banks now murmur in grief<br />
as laughter with hatred is sheared.<br />
Poised on the edges of unforeseen dread<br />
Seine too has halted its waves.<br />
<br />
But no more the silence of lambs to the blade!<br />
<br />
Let petals of love now sharpen as steel<br />
and blaze into fires that save<br />
and multitude of free thinkers march<br />
to the ruin of barbarian hordes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-82482989605885376922014-12-26T19:17:00.001+05:302014-12-26T19:17:15.480+05:30SilencesAs I unlock the door, they peep<br />
from the corners and wait.<br />
Then tiptoe as shadows<br />
and knowing that pills nor potions would help,<br />
curl up in bed<br />
with coffee that is salted with tears.<br />
<br />
But I have no laws to expel<br />
cohorts of silence that roam<br />
all through my empty little rooms.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-19896982183113122822014-12-23T23:55:00.002+05:302014-12-23T23:55:19.223+05:30HolidaysLife's all aflutter outside:<br />
busy little feet are rushing along streets<br />
as wheels keep on moving<br />
and engines still bustle,<br />
all towards throbbings of life.<br />
<br />
Coffee in hand,<br />
I spectate and chuckle to myself -<br />
the holidays, the holidays are here!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-8074985350289142662014-12-17T17:36:00.001+05:302014-12-17T17:36:43.719+05:30MomentEvening; around eight.<br />
Screeches of hawkers and wheels.<br />
<br />
she slipped off her hood and crossed<br />
As a fawn from a thicket in dark.<br />
<br />
The sun shone bright in our eyes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-90821938403733290342014-12-07T16:39:00.001+05:302014-12-07T16:40:21.270+05:30Truant Eyes<div style="text-align: center;">
Hazel eyes framed, with bright brown locks</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Glow as if pearls in sleep-sullen shells</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And matched with the radiance of alabaster skin</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Startle my long finished brushstrokes in veins</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
That rivet me at once on my spot.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
My truant eyes curl on stripes of her coat</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And turn towards buttons full of mesmerised hope</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And latch onto that necklace with despairing claws</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
As a drowner would cling to his straws.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Glimpses in neurons now weave</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Valleys and hills full of bloom.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Farewell, my winters of gloom!</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Heartstrings in ecstasy now leap,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
With lush, little leaves in their loom.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-67374352718390312282014-10-23T11:03:00.002+05:302014-10-23T11:03:58.099+05:30Zone beyond WordsThere should be a zone beyond words -<br />
a space beyond fences of bruised little selves<br />
no trenches of guilt<br />
no papers to settle the scores you'd kept<br />
nor even baggage of problems unsolved.<br />
<br />
A zone beyond words<br />
where desire will dance<br />
with rhythms of our hearts<br />
and breathe in an ecstasy of limbs.<br />
<br />
A zone beyond words<br />
where lips that would kiss would part for no words<br />
and the script of our eyes would clearly suffice<br />
for a rhapsody of light in our tides.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-65659235842701626632014-10-16T13:00:00.001+05:302014-10-16T13:00:45.386+05:30Yet AgainBetween us then throbbed,<br />
An aisle full of blank<br />
With templates of questions all set.<br />
<br />
But I who had fumbled in stairs without lights,<br />
Lost all my ladders to the bridge.<br />
<br />
Haltered with clauses that never reach a close,<br />
I stumble and puzzle amid punctuation marks<br />
And leave all my wonder on stations I've left<br />
And linger with abdicated grace.<br />
<br />
Tottering on ledges full of unwelcome moss,<br />
I re-live my dreams amid harbours of dross.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-47799271000487889752014-09-12T18:43:00.002+05:302014-09-12T18:43:22.701+05:30BullsMuscles of granite and shining new coal,<br />
Sternly at peace with columns of trees,<br />
They saunter in silence with steel-seeming horns,<br />
Glistening as sabers of primordial heft,<br />
Sharpened with near-fatal strength.<br />
<br />
Water or land, in winter or rain,<br />
Their undaunted bulk will move in its pace,<br />
caring for neither our presence nor gaze.<br />
<br />
Battling with overbrimming crowds or its stench,<br />
harried and hassled in smoke, mud or heat,<br />
burdened with evergrowing prices or debt,<br />
I dust up my dress and gazing at the<br />
Unperturbed stance of those beasts,<br />
Ponder the greatness of man.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-73688690756508866682014-08-31T21:20:00.004+05:302014-08-31T21:20:53.048+05:30Prof. Abinash C. Halder's Midmorning DreamPioneers hang with garlands of dust<br />
On walls full of cavities and cracks.<br />
Beneath their yellow or moth-eaten eyes<br />
Talks full of DAs or travel plans flutter<br />
And spiral into stories of in-laws or sales<br />
Sprinkled with ever-growing prices of fish<br />
Or moans over spouses and kids.<br />
<br />
In between these, with stiffening unease<br />
Students or classes will creep.<br />
<br />
The pioneers stare with spiders in eyes<br />
And shiver in the unwelcome breeze.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-81857295054005748282014-08-27T23:46:00.000+05:302014-08-27T23:46:15.192+05:30Transitional TidesThe muddy river laps<br />
Banks full of moss and rods full of rust<br />
That lead to the alleys of stonechips and dung<br />
With shadows of dilapidated walls.<br />
<br />
Nursed on the mysteries of enchanting dreams<br />
That float through the weavings of<br />
Time, space and texts<br />
I'm stranded and dulled as abrogated piers<br />
Where spiders and cobwebs now sulk.<br />
<br />
Shuttling among waves full of hyacinth and filth<br />
I mend my old hull and haul up my sails<br />
And wait for the flickers from lighthouse of faith<br />
Moored among still-distant shores.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4982476197162274889.post-62042835097913102002014-07-04T09:59:00.004+05:302014-07-04T09:59:51.619+05:30MemoryMemory has its ghosts, full of whispers and sighs.<br />
At times in the concert of first monsoon rain<br />
They deck out all the troops<br />
And fiddle our sense<br />
With footfalls in sepia-coloured lanes.<br />
<br />
Groping for words, I've called out their names<br />
Which drowned in the tears unaddressed.<br />
<br />
Puzzled with the cryptographic symbols in vain<br />
I search for my keys and linger in the rain.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17