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Three Poems About Transience, Suffering, And Spiritual Awakening

These poems spring from an unmistakable moral vein unspoiled by life라이브 바카라 unavoidable conflicts. The first two use metaphors of Dussehra라이브 바카라 Ravan, and an old, abandoned biscuit factory. The last one, a love poem, upholds the philosophy of living and losing while loving.

Dussehra

The ice-cream seller and buyer
stood by the wall of a hut.
Both were kids.

Both smiled,
a forced alliance erect
on either side of a border.

Dussehra라이브 바카라 Ravan
was burning in the background
of a throbbing countryside.

A doll in outmoded attire
looked through a peephole 바카라 웹사이트
in wide-eyed rapture.바카라 웹사이트

The Biscuit Factory

The biscuit factory바카라 웹사이트
still bears a baked aroma
on its unwrapped metal.바카라 웹사이트

The leftovers are soil now
but it failed to engulf its breath.

The blurred slogans on its walls
are old bruises — still longing to heal.

It feeds on time to shed its colour
for the bricks to appear —

the way a tree longs to shed its leaves바카라 웹사이트
without our staring.

When Lovers Are Lost바카라 웹사이트

How easily people are lost —
even their thoughts —

and when they return as shadows
how we try to retreat from light

like air moving from one room to another
seeking to lose their whispers to the walls

like trees swaying in autumn winds
trying to drop their accounts on fallen leaves

like a funeral fire rising towards the sky바카라 웹사이트
looking to shed its tears on the ashes.

(Sonnet Mondal has authored seven books of poetry and is the director of Chair Poetry Evenings – Kolkata라이브 바카라 International Poetry Festival.)
바카라 웹사이트

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