Farewell 2024: A photo ‘poem’

Pranab Ghosh

-Pranab Ghosh

The light drizzle...

A drop kisses my little finger; 

My left hand rises voluntarily

As I look up at the sky...

No stars to gaze at

No shining moon

Cold breeze sweeps across my face...

I pace up; hurried footsteps cross me,

A breezy car disappears in the by lanes,

There's a carnival taking place across the ‘square’ amidst smell of ‘paper leaves’, old and new!

I keep my shoulder firm and walk on...

Home made chocolates and cakes in hard boxes made of aluminium foil...

Memories pinch me; they have a tag, ‘Darjeeling momos’

Wow!!!

Christ ‘arrives’ at a ‘cow shade’ in Bethlehem!

I though settle for loose tea, fanning...

I remember another evening...

Another walk down the northern lanes

As rain drops kiss the glasses of my spectacle,

And chants and aroma of incense sticks waft out of

A Mandir

And 

A Masjid

Here, deep in the heart of 

The North...

Krishna ‘arrives’ at a ‘jail’ in Mathura!

The city though seems to be ‘sleepy’...

City of Joy!

Let’s shock ourselves out of the ‘slumber’!

Come Let’s do it!

PLEASE!!!

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Author’s note:

This poem celebrates two walks down the lanes of Kolkata, one on the eve of Krishna b’day and the other on the eve of Christ’s b’day. 

Bio: Pranab Ghosh is an award-winning journalist and poet. His latest books of poems, “Love, Religion & Politics” (Virasat, Kolkata) and “Karma Cola” (Impspired.com, UK) were published in 2023. His story stories, essays and poems have been widely published in various Indian and international journals, magazines and e-mags. He, at present, lives in Kolkata, His home city.

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Setu, December 2024