Voices Within: Rajorshi Patranabis

Rajorshi Patranabis is a multilingual poet and translator. A wiccan by philosophy he has experimented with different forms of poetry. He has been published in many national and international journals like Setu Bilingual Magazine (US), The Dhaka Review, The Kolkata Cadence etc. His collections of poems are, The Crossover - love beyond eternity (collection of supernatural and metaphysical love poems), Feriwala (Bengali love poems), Nirjon Soikot -Luit Hooghly (A translation project of Assamese-Bengali poems with Ranjit Dutta, Pregnant (Sonnets), Solstice (Haiku), Through Your Eyes (Ghazals in English with Pen name Kafir), Ramp (translation of Assamese poems to English with Ranjit Dutta)

Ghazal 

(Pen name - Kafir)

Then

And then

Clouds burst to cry

Tattered clumsy and shy

Sun claim gold

Moon define silver

Nights speak dark

Days banter hope

And then

Clouds burst to cry

Tattered clumsy and shy

Walk through times

Drips of last crimson sunset

Your glimpse still lingers

Smiles of agony

And then...

Clouds burst to cry

Tattered clumsy and shy

Blue touches you

Red touches me

We touch your breath

Divine touches us

And then

Kafir's truthful lie

Tattered clumsy and shy

Then...

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Haibun

Palette

Her silence was awkward. We are definitely more than just a friend.

She smiled with a frown. I smiled back. Oblivious to the surrounding, I went ahead and touched her fingers, as if, by accident.

Painted blue

Skies draped to usher

Botched strokes

" Were you deaf to what my eyes were saying?"

I smiled, " I was busy painting your heart. "

My palette was red.

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Oscillation 

Oscillation 

Ether claims air

Soul finds body

Body makes mud. 

Oscillation 

Summers bake red

Monsoons splash green

Springs bloom flower.

Oscillation 

Black and white

Nights to mornings

Chain of movements. 

Swings of love making 

Our death-defying oscillation.

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Setu, February 2022