27th June 1961 Poem by Binoy Majumdar

27th June 1961

Rating: 4.5


Like wet gorges our feel
limited, confined; valleys, woods and hills
all covered in fog and clouds for the past few days.
Tell me how much of the multitudes of earthly taste
does the failed buds of a cat's tongue feel ?
Yet all the crisp and subtle, sharp experience,
like flower thorns or the incisiveness of orbits
of distant stars, of the far beyond.
Anyway, despite it, the stupendous air of the sky
not large currents, fluxes with crosswinds.
Unsuppressed by the conflicts of these uncertain
excitement, the pine still grows erect
like true desire, towards a lightening sky.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Translated by Aryanil Mukherjee
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Leela Chatterjee 14 October 2018

After Jibonananda Das, he is one of the best poets in Bengali literature. I am his admirer.

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