Pradip Chattopadhyay Poems

Only when there is a power cut
down here are city lights dead
Can I see up there the stars’ glut
Unseen moon over head!
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The old man tells the hours almost perfectly
From the length of shadows
Having walked the length of life
Without ever needing a clock!
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I confess to you
I hardly confess to her.

Why I say this is
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Soap froth sprays in the air
Up down up down it goes
Rhythmic swings don't care
If the detergent smells of rose!
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They gasped for breath in that dark dungeon cell
A hundred and forty six men huddled in black hell
In that hole of Fort William eighteen by fourteen
The screaming souls realized next morn wouldn't be seen.
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There's something I couldn't tell you
remained in the heart all along
something that is though long overdue
never made it to the tongue!
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On the river's this side
the boat waits for high tide.

beckon me the far line trees
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Can a year change a man

to what he is
from anything else
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Pelican
Slurps on
What its
Belly can
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A year older, a year wiser

A wisdom always in the making
Nourished by experience
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