Special Edition: Kushal Poddar

Kushal Poddar
Although Kushal Poddar has authored ten books, the latest being 'A White Can For The Blind Lane', and his works have been translated into twelve languages, and he has been a sub-editor of Outlook magazine and the editor of Words Surfacing, and he does some illustrations and sketches for various magazines if you ask him, he will say that he gardens a growing up daughter.

Lone Seat - Summer

On those Summers lives pass
before the shadow of the tree
reaches the seat 
my thoughts and memories brown
their skin while bumming within.

You may find me on the lone bench.
I shall turn, still reclined, still 
too stirred with the ardour 
for the shadow in that still-life of mine
if you near. 

Then the shadow will touch my feet.
Awakened, I shall stretch and wear it.
I always have a date with nothingness.
We go nowhere.
***


Lone seat - Rain

Grass grows long. Even now
their tips look curly.
A few more days, they will wrap
the seat, sheathe the wood,
metal pieces, Sun, shadows,
and those moments some couples 
find intimacy in their lives.

One day I may jog past the bench
without noticing its existence.
My shoes may crush a snail crossing.
I'll not feel anything.
***


Birds Exhumed

The birds Exhumed 
from the earth's innards 
rush in the sky, a tingling,
a sprinkle of adrenaline.

Alive again, a deja vu of a mirror,
I open my palms as if by design 
ashes the birds will be, 
and the  flakes of grey will cover my skin.

1 comment :

  1. “I always have a date with nothingness.” Kushal
    Poddar’s poetry always moves us out of thought into an area of pure feeling. It allows the mind to discover its contradictions, its illusions, its certain uncertainty as it moves through the world; it shows the mind its longing.

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