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| Mandira Ghosh |
Guest in Rains
I am a guest here for a moment
Before the rains could stop,
I was both born and dead.
Today’s day long unstoppable rains
Filled my soul
With memories
Both cruel and happy.
Those fields were muddy and wet
Mixed with my forbidden memories
The undaunted showers
Made our parched bodies
wait for new dreams.
Now showers and dreams
turned out to be tsunami.
Perishing the wealth
Of the sea and shore
To blind fortune of nothing
But cancerous cells.
Waiting for a weeping future
Of tears and torture.
***
Route
Meandering routes to forests and future,
Confused but confirmed.
A determined life lost to routes
Illegible, refracted and curvy.
Nothing can be considered
Straight in the universe
They are always
Crooked or curvy
Like lost in a forest
A man searches
Route to his life
Looks for a
Straight path
But finds a route unknown,
Crooked beyond recognition
And comprehension.
***
A Second and a cell
Language turned to be a sonnet
A lyric in lyre
In a poet's songs.
The drums reverberate
Echo the past into future
In between lies the present
Blatant and confused.
Let us welcome the present
May be a guest in a moment
A second and just a cell of life.
A cell in a new born
A second in new time.
***
Colours of an Artist
He painted his portrait
Kept in a portfolio
In red with his blood.
He lay in black soil
Lost in his dream
His own soul as his lost beloved.
Soil worked as his old broken lodge.
He heard a storm
Raging through the ocean
He heard thunder
Painted the sound
Watched lightning
Coming from the sky
Dark ocean welcomed his soul, in black soil
That was
Painted red with his blood.
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Bio: Mandira Ghosh is an eminent poet and author. She is presently the treasurer of the Poetry Society (India) and also in its Editorial team. She is awarded as the author of the year award by the Asian Literary Society in 2022. Received Senior Fellowship, from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and other awards. She has edited and authored 25 books in wide ranging titles which includes seven volumes of verses, published widely in India and abroad, she is the featured poet of the Seventh Quarry Swansea Magazine from Wales twice and was the Guest Editor of the Special Indian Edition of the Seventh Quarry Swansea Magazine from Wales.
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