Auro Bhattacharya

Walking in to the unknown destination,
starving of peace & happiness years after years.
Achieved all in my life but lost my precious peace.
Love is missing due to me so is the peace of mind
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Away from this hustle bustle of life
I feel like a dead man today
in a wooden nailed coffin! !
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This road will lead me to Badrinath..
What a splendid beauty of nature! !
On both sides Tall hills, Rivers, Green Jungles
of pine trees
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Between the mountains in the valley of flowers
Springs and water falls from melting glaciers,
Deepest in the forest i walk slowly melancholy
unmoved by the virgin beauty of nature around.
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Will it heal up? Even I don’t know today?

I have lost my peace & happiness
On her departure is sure & confirmed.
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Same destination
Same distance…
In my Childhood
What I did in fifteen hundred steps
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I still remember the day as fresh as today.
I was waiting on the railway platform
to board a train to Howrah,
from Seoragachi Station
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On my difficult trekking of steep Himalayan mountain
I looked at the scantily dressed poor boy
In this chilling snowy weather..
He gave me 3 golden apples plucked from the Orchard
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'Run, run, run...'
On the steep mountain cliff
Slippery slope; lush green plants
& trees in ethereal serenity
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Standing on the river bank for the ferry to arrive
Maa Ganga I have been trailing from Himalaya
Here is the life line of our rural Bangla.
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There is a theft in neighbor’s house
the thief has taken away all jewelry
and cash breaking the large steel trunk..
Manu & her husband cried aloud
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[ Shivkhori is a long cave on top of mountains in Jammu. Saints used to worship deep inside these caves. One day a cowboy saw some saints at the entrance of the caves when he was trying to locate his lost cows. These saints were doing hawan & smoke was spiralling into the sky. Saints told the cowboy not to disclose this to the villagers in the valley. But the cowboy could not stop his curiosity & explained the episode to the village head. Now it is one of the famous pilgrimage places in Jammu]

Riding on a horse back by the side
of an un-named Mountain River,
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Flow along the mountain river
she will bring you to me
in this misty sleepy valley…
ensconced in swirling clouds
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Sound of river touches my cottage between the hills
in the midst of life of Scorpions, Snakes,
insects, Humming Birds, Butterflies..
of all colours, welcoming me to a beautiful world.
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Tired & exhausted
Cheated & beaten
in this distasteful life,
A penance on sins today pushed me
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