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| Purabi Bhattacharya |
Another
winter
When
I sit down to bunch up
the
flock of words and letters, whipping up
our
nearly over story
I
know
you
and I
defrost.
Every
night the meadows of
moistened
memories, filled with breezy little wild lantanas;
clinquant
with colourful, ugly, beautiful, fistful of dragonflies
and
the
remains
of
our romance
in
each of our pillows
wilt like the chrysanthemums,
fragrant, coltish
waylay for another
winter.
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Left
and right
A
hilltown migrant fed with dreams, plentiful
bowlful
doable , cinnamon class gives in
the
need of the hour: become one. Under obligation,
the
remain blossomed. One day at a time.
Dahlia,
orchids, radiant springtime florets, every
odd,
even plant waved each day
until
one afternoon, with all of it the city in mist
stayed
behind, almost swiped out
from
the floor of the earth.
orphan
squall..
“camouflage!”
Keep
left, keep right
Keep
head bowed, keep it low.
March out left and right, left and right.
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Smile,
uncovered
Slow,
slower mundane days
sigh
stale
the
ever constant smell of a half- smoked cigarette
left
burning the sides of an ashtray
my
inside, carbonize.
I
would have listened to your song
close
to confessing
the
crime of letting me out
I
wobbled warm in.
You offered me meat,
blood,
wastes, war and
ashes
and I stayed covered,
smiling
at all that
rained.
I
smile
I
smile when I am alone
I
smile when I am hated.
I
smile when my verses in someone’s lips,
becomes
organic.
I
smile when my fourteen generation gets cussed
for
I know I am loved by all of them
at
the end of it all, I am their
prayer
flower.
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Purabi Bhattacharya is a writer from Shillong, India. Currently based in Gujarat, she teaches English literature, has debuted with a collection of poems Call me published by Writers Workshop, India which finds a mention in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is on the panel of Muse India Book Review. Her poems have appeared mostly in print journals like Quest, it’s other journals, anthologies published in India apart from contributing to some internet poetry portals, her works may be read in Tuck Magazine, Ink, Sweat and tears, Sparkthemagazine, Muse India, Scaling Heights( 2015), passion4poetry Anthology.
