How many candles
Did they light for you
My friend
How many bouquets
...
In the consequence of your eyes
I lift mine and lower them
For how can I look
Into those depths
...
It is evening again
And the dreary rain
Falls incessantly
As if to wipe away
...
When you light the lamp
I know the sun has set
Whether or not the sun will rise
...
She sat on the single step
By the door and leaned against the wall
She sat before the stars had died
She sat long after the moon was up
...
Subject to your eyes
I can live my declining years
In placidity of disinclination
...
Where will I hide my anguish
Your had withdrawn your aanchal
Long ago
...
It might have been night
With the world asleep
And in that crazy silence
It might have been I
...
She sat on the single step
By the door and leaned against the wall
She sat before the stars had died
She sat long after the moon was up
...
I shall drink with thirsty lips
What shall you serve me but wine
It no longer quenches my thirst
O this parched thirst of mine
...
The cloud clenches a fist
And it rains
You are drenched
And the sari clings to you
...
How Many Candles (In Remembrance Of Madhumita Shukla - Poet)
How many candles
Did they light for you
My friend
How many bouquets
How many teddy bears
Did children
Or their parents
Did teenage school kids
Did celebrities
Did activists
Hold vigils in your memory
Did they know that you
Once lived
Did they know you were killed
It was a lonely death
But perhaps it was a lonely life
No one noticed
For it was not your tragedy
That you died
It was your tragedy
That you were a poet
Rest in silence
My friend
The media will leave you alone
As they cover your killer
But then who killed you
When did your spirit die
To you my friend
I raise a toast
And I am the only one
Cheers
From one dead poet
To another
Pratip
25 October 2007
I was curious at the similarity of our names and ventured all the poems in your credit. Some of them are really nice though I find an undercurrent of sombre tone in each. But don't know why the dates of submission are not shown as it happens in case of others. Also the profile is missing. Is this due to website having technical snags or intentional. Anyway, please keep writing.