Platform Imagery Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Platform Imagery
While Going To Board, Catch The train

I

The Gipsy Girl

On the platform
Saw I
The gipsy, gipsy girl
In the goggles
Going somewhere
Waiting to catch the train, train,
The gipsy, gipsy girl.


II

A Tryst With Miss Burqawalli
A Lover of Dark Rose

On the platform
Saw I the burqawalli
In hiding
Going over the foot bridge,
The railway fly over
Just like a ghost,
A shadow or an imagery.

The coy mistress
Going over the foot bridge,
Stepping, stepping up,
Going down, passing,
Passing over,
Appearing and disappearing suddenly
Miss Burqawalli,
Dekho magar pyar se, see me but with love.

See you, but kiss her not,
Miss Burqawalli,
Dark Rose!