Inam Hussain Mullick: Poetry (Voices Within 2021)

Inam Hussain Mullick is an award-winning poet, editor, composer, photographer and performance artiste. He has authored Roses for the Madhouse (2010, Cult of Beauty), Winter's Electric Architecture (2016, Hawakal Publishers) and The Magical Life of Inamorato (Forthcoming, Writers Workshop). He has co-edited Peacocks In A Dream (2020, Erothanatos: The Alternative), Freedom Raga 2020 (2020, Exceller Books) and The Kolkata Cadence (2021, Hawakal Publishers). A recipient of the Poetry Paradigm Kavi Salaam Certificate of Excellence, he has read and performed at prominent art events, festivals and spaces like Poetry With Prakriti, Poets Reading Poets, Festival of Hope, Synesthesia and Sahitya Akademi's Poet's Meet.

 

Haiku

Verses of Love

 

1

seadusk clarinets,

dancers the coastland breathing,

winds canoodle wolves.

 

2

midnight eros plums,

your drenched butterfly bosoms,

interludes of light.

 

3

the east of winter's mouth,

loving south of your lips—

bed, skinsong lava.

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Life, Cognition and Creativity 2021 :: Setu, January 2021