BASAB CHAUDHURI Poems

If you belong to everyone,
You belong to no one.
That's the design.
That's how it's built.
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The pleat speaks volumes about the effort
To maintain and express
Like a chisel on the marble floor
Making a surreal design.
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Death is a leveler
An equalizer among unequal,
Even among all odds,
Certain among all uncertain,
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A feeling -
Poetic
Or noetic,
I cannot discriminate,
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Beauty is neither positive
Nor superlative,
It's comparative.
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A point won
Is a point lost.
It is zero sum
On which you build
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Stay.

While life is here,
stay with it.
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He wrote, 'D-Ey-light'.
I said, Delight or Daylight?
He explained, 'Fusion.
Combinatorial.
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Things fall apart,
The poet was spot on.

Things are falling apart.
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Only when the sun sets,
It can see the day's travel.
Did cloud cover it,
or the rays touched all over!
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