Special Edition: Sankha Ranjan Patra

Sankha Ranjan Patra

When Heart Feels

When heart feels 

Useless to live in own sorrow,

Pleasure only in seclusion.

Where in the still sky the sun shines

In the absence of rainy days,

And enough condolences sunshine.

Where Storms will not collaborate 

With desperate winds,

Where birds will not collaborate 

With desperate clouds.

When heart feels 

Useless to live in the crowd,

Who wants not?

A lonely abode far from the noise,

Where leafless trees talk with rays 

After shedding tears.

Where each beating will not 

pretend 

To be compatible in false cry,

Where each winking will not pretend 

To be compatible in fake shy.

When heart feels 

Useless to be singing in thinking 

A melancholy song,

Better to learn about a place

Maybe a source of solace,

Better to turn around a page 

That might be in life 

And that kind of peace 

Must be a kind of such

Blissful beauty of nature.

When heart feels 

Useless to be sinking in thinking 

All day long,

Better to run towards a place

Known to few unknown people,

Better to turn to heaven

That might be on earth 

And that kind of haven

Must be a kind of such

Blissful beauty of nature.

When heart feels 

Useless to share own sorrow 

With living entities of the world,

When heart feels 

Useless to care other's sorrow,

Better to be an individual 

Like the deepest lake 

Losing way on the land,

Like the farthest isle

Losing way on the sea.

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Bio: Sankha Ranjan Patra is a poet and author. He belongs to India. He writes in English, Bengali and Hindi. His published books are Muse, Mute, All About Love and Borsha. Muse and Mute are poetry books in English. All About Love is a novel in English. Borsha is a poetry book in Bengali. He has contributed for many anthologies and magazines. He has been honoured by different literary societies. 

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Setu, May 2025