Bankim Let

Bankim Let Poems

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You live far away.

Way too far from me;
Maybe in an arable valley you live
...

neither you nor I,

but our washed-out clothes:
shirts, kameezes, and briefs
...

The trees within me still tremble
Beside the river, beside the temple

The egret, in the marsh, in search of fish
...

Peacocks could,
in the forest
or
in the zoos,
...

Bankim Let Biography

Bankim Let(21 January 1978) is an Indian author.His poems and essays have appeared in several Bengali literary magazines, including 'Desh'patrika.He is one of the members of editorial board of 'Kabita Ashram' patrika, a popular Bengali literary magazine.He is an Assistant Teacher of English language in a school of West Bengal Government.He now lives in Rampurhat, a town about 206 km away from Kolkata.)

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You live far away.

Way too far from me;
Maybe in an arable valley you live
Beyond this blazing city, smouldering mansard,
Squabbling brains, barking streets,
Skylines that elbow each other,
Church-temple-mosque chimes,
Those broken helmets,
Bloodshed and fleas, macabre firefights,
This bullet-torn pelt of peace,
Lonely masquerades,
Lust for wealth, women, and wins.



My ladies and my leaders present me
Some matchboxful of mosquitoes and ants
I'm no saint either; kill them with toothpicks


Unlike me, you aren't the slave of love, significance, and power;
You thus create everything out of nothing,
And I lose everything minus everything-
Even you.

But you are always there;
Wait for me in the sky-kissing mountain.

Like my granny grow sweet cherries in the valley;
Stow water under the bark; hide nectar in the pollen;
Drip love from the sunflowers in chill moonlit nights.

I've burnt the rose garden to roast my chicken

Away, away I go from you, and doze on my sandalwood settee.

You still caress my unkempt hair over and again;
My heart melts over my cheeks under the flash flood of stars;
Then a flight of cherubs peck my past night's dew on the glade.

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