Aloke Mukherjee Poems

At the midnight, when street lights make
chiaroscuro on the face of unknown straggler,
someone raps on the door 'are you home, my sweetheart? '
He stands-like a lonely tree on meditation,
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I live in third world, may be second, I dunno.

Some savant sitting in his university-office, big
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Oh! sin, today you've touched me

On the sandy dunes of the beach,
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The day is overhung with cloud,

A curious dream alights on the rooftop.
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Sometime I seek him in the sea
calm as in a Lagoon.
Sometime find him on the rocks,
Sometime in the cold wind
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Hold me tight until I merge onto blue-sky,
onto a paradox named life....a string of pearls dissolving
Into a blue murmuring ocean- a nameless existence until that hold me, dear! Only moment I am alive, I am,
When I draw you out of you and let me mug you, smother you.
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She had unswerving love in her enchanting eyes,
I could not face her, lest some some malady of hesitation
come out and shows the hurt in the heart.

Rather, let her live in my affectionate vision,
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Heaven is my ex- motherland, my lebensraum
I built a log-house to live in—to live in an acre of green grass;
I love the dell where I built a sunset city, the twilight never dies
In the crimson flavor, the beautiful lips half-parted with a hope,
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I saw your face, somewhere it was raining-
beneath your brow, your eyes floated like lily
on the placid water, on the shore your house
embraced you like a dear forgotten song with a refrain
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I want to burn me, set me up on the pyre
Devour me with vengeance, set me up ablaze,
The holy fire, burn my legs, my hands which is
Grimy with sins of unlove, spill over to my crotch
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