Pradip Chattopadhyay Poems

As I rest my eyes in their shade
I smell them
my fingers
and smell
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From the moment you’re born
You get a lollipop
You suck on
Till it sucks!
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It took
One frown
To undo
All my sweet gestures!
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Come for a little sum
I’ll read you your palm
Lend me your hand
I’ll read the rivers of fate
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When the prospect of food is slim
Hunger is no more a dream
No more the philosopher’s pastime
Or a poet’s subject for rhyme.
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If I could go back
32 summers
to the hallowed soil
love was to be grown,
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I sat in the silence of the riverbank
Watching the river going to the sea
Riding on her waves
To her oceanic lover
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As it sank in the daughter,
She dug up a thing from deep inside.
“if I may ask you dear mother,
something you’ve always tried to hide.
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On the black canvas
Carve the thunders
Streaks of neon glow,
The drums the heaven beats
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A dark cavern
Yawns wide
Cobwebbed
With corpses of storage
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