Bit by bit
Every passing year
Wisdom nibbles at my spontaneity
Practiced discipline eats away
At the heart of truant pleasures.
They say to me
"But you are still so young"
And I think
Oh this brutal irony!
© 2009 Rituparna Das
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Lies
A clear blue sky
A shimmering green tree
White blossoms of spring
And a song set free.
I opened my eyes
They were all lies
A blazing blue pain
Gripping a garish green frog
A prince in white finery once
Croaked and cried for his lost tog.
© 2009 Rituparna Das
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The act
A dispersed crowd
The curtains drawn
We stand exhausted
Strangely becalmed
The pretense all gone.
The truth lies twisted
Together we stand alone
The love wiped off our faces
Awaiting another act
As the show must go on.
© 2009 Rituparna Das
The rains-2
It rains
Night and day
Day and night
Sky and earth
Becoming one
It rains
Night and day
Day and night
The greens
The browns
All clean
All awashed
It rains
Night and day
Day and night
It soaks me wet
It stings my eyes
It rinses my soul
Of its deathly plight
So
It rains
On and on
Night and day
Day and night.
© 2009 Rituparna Das
Friday, July 10, 2009
The summer
The cracked earth
The unquenched thirst
The blinding white heat
And the beastly lust!
© 2009 Rituparna Das
The rains-1
From heaven
The teardrops fall from above and high,
As the sky heaves a trembling sigh,
From a trace of a pain ,
To an angst that's thick and dense,
Ceaselessly, see how darkly it rains,
O how it rains!
On earth
The wounds run deep,The pain and angst stealthily seep,
As through the cracked earth the rain,
Through my tired veins,
My heart stains,
O how it stains!
© 2009 Rituparna Das
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