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Songs of Silence – Poetry from Bengal

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Songs of Silence – Poetry from Bengal
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Songs of Silence – A journey to love

By Suhina Biswasmajumdar 

Contemporary World Literature -Suhina Biswasmajumdar- Sindh CourierSuhina Biswasmajumdar is a writer from Kolkata, Bengal. A life-long devotee of Swami Vivekananda, Suhina is against any discrimination. Two significant life-forces propel her – ‘love’ and ‘writing’. Suhina’s book ‘Tumi’ (you) and Songs of Silence (A Journey to Love), are collections of her poetic thoughts.

To A Lover —

Hey!

Open your mind

And listen to your voice

Listen to your own

The inner one

At least, for once

 

Then move

And react vehemently

Before this City Of Death crushes you,

Kiss your Whip & Love

 Yes … this time…

Oh … now the rest is yours….

Monsoon

Again monsoon comes

Thirsty earth is waiting for her,

The summer gives a warm welcome

With his departing stormy clarinets,

 

Look, ecstasy giggles in her dark eyes

She comes to keep her promise

Monsoon smiles, life begins to sprout

Energy flows greenery shows how happy

The fields are now

 

I’m waiting for her in my lonely room

 I want to be with her alone

Monsoon offers her dream to me

With the fragrance of Kadam

 

Don’t you want to enjoy her vibrant colors?

Don’t you wish to be happy?

We get a chance to make more fun

Let’s enjoy her beauty

 

She gives a touch

That makes canvas forgets its strife

The earth’s waiting for her love, I remember

Monsoon appears, once more in our life.

The Mother

Eternal truth lies in her eyes

Mother,

The infinity that I search for

And wonder

 

From year after year

Decades are changed into era

Every single particle of the existence

May change but not her laughter

 

In her smile

I find the universe

Her touch makes me the emperor

She would kiss my forehead and

I’ll be the conqueror of the

Whole world

 

Mother,

The creator of this mystic creation

Mother, where poor wretched woman

Becomes the face of incarnation…

songs-of-silence- courtesy- HinduwebsiteThe flowers of fire

Love whispers

And they bloom to kiss

The eyes of heaven — the blue is

Flooded

With their fiery passion and smiles

A gleam of light emerges from the darkest corridor of life

Only those hearts know how to believe How to keep faith and their promises…

It’s love they feel

 It’s love that immune them

It’s love they make you feel

 

Let’s celebrate the victory

Let’s feel the ecstasy,

And love,

Love for the rest of your life

Without any reason without any restrictions

Without knowing what love is or how to love!

The Migrants

Nothing has been changed today

Nothing will be changed tomorrow

They are the pawns

No one will change their fate and sorrow

Songs of SilenceThe River and The Dying Soul

The river still flows beside the monument

That of love or lustrous

Let them talk

Who’re crazy to enjoy the beauty

Of the marbles and walk

But who knows their cry  … that of marbles and men

How their toil and sweat could transform the grave —

A piece of art!

Yes ….an epitome of love and frozen tears!

 

No one knew their name .No one praised them.

No one even got chance to recall those

Youths who had spent their spring and autumn

With the murmurs of the stone

 

Those unsung artisans whisper

If you want, you can feel their presence and

Their immortal song

 

They only change their place, their clothes

And time

Still you find them

On the high way they’re travelling

They’ve to cross the borders of time, place, social strata

They’re in the freeze frame of the timeless canvas

Of the society —

They build …They make….They disappear from the pages of the history

But yet they return

 

Only the ego of the people and power

Had been buried forever under the white marble,

 

People come to see

The beauty of the tired monument and forget

The engraved emptiness the poor Emperor bears

For the last fifty decades,

And the story of the rest who’re the pawns

 

None will change their fortune they borrow

Nothing will be changed in their tomorrow….

Worship

Perhaps you aren’t good

Perhaps you aren’t the one

Who you want to be!

 

It’s my magic

That you look like that god

Others want to see.

Songs-of-Silence- Courtesy- Outlook-IndiaThe Song of Silence

Please

Make some more emojis

That I can open my mind

Every single emotion

That could whisper the

Blank verse the man recites in

The deaf ears of the dumb station

 

Only

The lust remains as a last remnant of life

 

Those men

Who knows how to use brush and blood?

See no more,

They leave no warison,

 

The man,

Once who plays his strings and sings

And the sky with the cry of the broken mountains

Bursts into tears,

And the river, the meadows, the dark chocolate-crazies follow him —

 No more raises his chocked voice

He too becomes the devotee of Faustus!

 

And

Me, the poor wretched melancholic frozen soul,

Am

But waiting for r my last ride…

Like

That of our civilization

 

Before that ―

Before everything would be vaporized

Or mummified

 

Rehearse to be calm and quiet

Time flows like frozen shots or fossils ―

 

The man

The train

The morose station

Still

Exchange their feelings

But

None is there

No one has that knowledge

To

Decode

Their songs of silence!

Laughter

Have you ever seen the Parijat

That blooms in the Eden

The heavenly joy that brings

Where pleasure is forbidden

 

I’ve seen those flowers

Suddenly bloom in thousands

When he asks the gypsy girl

To take a snap but she just swirls

 

She bursts into laughter

Like the thunder,

Her eyes are dark, her skirt is pale

Though her smile snatches you from the hell!

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