Form Of Beauty Poem by Prayag Saikia

FORM OF BEAUTY

In a faraway address
Is the abode of the beauty of the heart

Across the unsurpassable wall
One cannot see the hood
Of the sunbathing ‘Goala' snake

Close by
Is the Vrindaban
Of the cowherds

If your mind is free
No question arises
Of an arch-enemy

Embodiment of beauty
Lies unnoticed in the woods
Nearby- the poet's dwelling
Resembling the shell of a snail

Poet and cuckoo do not know
How to build a house
Is this simile
Always applicable

(Translated from Original Assamese by Bibekananda Choudhury)