Amit Shankar Saha is an
award-winning poet and short story writer. He has won the Poiesis Award,
Wordweavers Prize, Nissim International Runner-up Prize. He has been nominated
for the Pushcart Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the co-founder of Rhythm
Divine Poets, Assistant Secretary of Intercultural Poetry and Performance
Library, Fiction Editor of Ethos Literary Journal and Chief Executive Editor of
Virasat Art Publication. His two collections of poems are titled
"Balconies of Time" and "Fugitive Words". He has a PhD in
English from Calcutta University and teaches in the English Department of
Seacom Skills University.
Origin
What
if I tell you
the
story of my origin,
of
how I was born
in
a faraway cosmos
as
one half of a galaxy,
of
how I spent my childhood
with
blackholes and supernovas,
where
the frenetic winds made
leaves
of many nebulas shake,
of
how I used to travel
in
envelops of time and space,
and
in my youth loved not one
but
each and every universe,
would
you believe me?
So,
I fabricate this fiction
of
my mother and this earth.
What
If in the Maps?
What
if I joined you
for
a fag in the middle -
passing
the filter tip
from
lip to lip,
exchanging
clouds of carbon
between
our lungs,
and
smokescreening the world
we
vanished from the venue?
What
if
in
the maps of our beings
we
discover a secret
island
of possibilities
where
the nights are gossamer
and
the stars all untrimmed?
Hermitage
You
know at night
when
I lie in my room,
the
room becomes a hermitage.
The
world outside
recedes
far away.
Even
you are not there.
Only
memories
cohabit
with me.
They
speak to me,
I
ask them to be quiet.
Nostalgia
comes easy,
sometimes
riding on
the
tunes of a sitar,
sometimes
out of nowhere.
You
know if you breathe
close
to me
you
can smell
this
hermitage.
Voices Within-2020 :: Setu, February 2020
Beautiful !
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