sunnetra basu Poems

The lantern was pre-lit,
dusky dawn on the glass-
the smoke turns in and out,
the burnt breath let that pass
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The day is grey, a chilly wind
Catch my breath as I walk slowly to the lake.
Sharp stones crunch down beneath me
As the rowing boat drifts gently from the shore
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Clotted swelling swathes of mist
Grey opaque dense and fearful
Slanted cascading streaks of rain
Chill surging lashing and damp
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Silently soaring on fingered wings
Twisting and turning and using the breeze
Gliding above us he sees many things
Side-slipping, diving and dipping with ease
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A table for one please waiter
For I'm here on my own
If I'd known he wasn't coming
I would have stayed at home
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I have seen the death certificate - died in Islington Workhouse 1914
Dead toes under starched sheets
A name in copperplate - a plumber in Angel Court
Inside my veins I carry the blood of people who walked here before
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Is it an endless expanse of never ending emptiness
That stretches into delusion as far as the eyes see?
Or is it a proof of togetherness the tiny water drops show,
That unification leads to untarnished empire,
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Many people said; live your life to the max.
Others said; put others first, then put yourself second. Some people said; you live once in a lifetime.
Others said; be nice to anyone around you, no matter how unfair it might be.
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If only in dreams.
Once I get past the
white caps of reality,
I dive.
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Another season of the year
Is now upon the earth and me;
Another spring will light these hills—
No other spring mine own may be:
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