Jaydeep Sarangi Poems

Jaydeep Sarangi

Emptying My Light

Long wait, after mute sleepless waiting

silence gathered in both hands.

When the storm is over, after an earthquake

 a lonely mirror is weaving the net.

Holding truth fagging it up, re enacting

an old play. after a spell of love making.

Trees wearing the spirit

the rice has got strange wings.

Memory carries me to strange lands

wild as Nataraj against a darkening cloud.

Rain breaking everything,

all laws, only wishes.

I’m held by new promises

with colours of soft morning rain.

My horse is waiting

Outside uncertain faiths.

Blue waters of oceans

Keep me a stranger in the house.

Someone is watching me, always

From close quarters of life.

I may leave this unseen, beyond words

All wishes may go, but for my gentle Dulung.

For My Jhargram

There is peace after a homely noise

my mother sleeps safe after the evening chants.

The earth watches

I take the pigeons out every day.

Every pain has a remedy

with men and women rising.

Fair green Mistress

I bear a rooted grief.

I speak with your words.

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Jaydeep Sarangi is a bilingual poet with nine collections. Sarangi has read his poems in different parts of the globe. His later readings were at Flinders University, University of Western Australia, University of Wollongong, Perth Poetry Club (Australia), University of East Anglia (UK) and University of Rezeszow (Poland). With Rob Harle, Sarangi has edited six poetry anthologies of poems from Australia and India. He is a professor of English and principal at New Alipore College, Kolkata. Address: Principal, New Alipore College, Block L, New Alipore, Kolkata: 700053, WB. Email: jaydeepsarangi@gmail.com

Setu, October 2019