Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Yaadon K Yeh Kaafile



Remember.
Electronic relationships
Electronic love.
Here, there,
Over and above.

Remove the tags,
Delete the chats,
Unlike all the photos of his cute cat.

Don’t smile at sudden meets,
Don’t wear the Iron Man shirt,
Don’t cry, don’t whine,
Don’t showcase your apparent hurt.

Block him or/and
Stalk him,
You can take a call.
And just because he found his n-th ‘true love’,
Your market value would never fall.

Remember?
Electronic relationships
Electronic love.
Here, there,
Over and above.

Except ?

Except
When the moon shines
And the Autumn breeze starts to flow.
Except
When the poet writes
And the escapee does not get to know.

Except.


-Abhishikta


Note to self: The credit of coming up with 'Escapee' in place of my valid (or coined?) 'Abandoner' goes to Subhayan. Someday (when I am more sure) I'll change it back to what I wanted actually and call it Poetic Freedom! :)

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

বীরপুরুষ, The Hero



কারো স্বপ্নের রাজকুমারী কিনা জানিনা |
তবে,
সে আমার বীরপুরুষ ||

কারো জীবনের শেষ সন্ধান কিনা জানিনা | 
তবে, 
সে আমার বীরপুরুষ ||

- Abhishikta