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You’ve allowed your laughter to die away
Now it’s empty
Now it’s only the sound of an empty pitcher
Only the cry
For a pitcherful of laughter,awaited and
Full to the brim
It’s so
Because it must be so
It’s … [Read the rest...] “The Empty Pitcher Lying Over Dry Ground : by Keshab Mahanta”
There’s a silent grace mathematical,in each and every bone,
Like smiles unembodied ,in each and every cell,
The ultimate that has no colour,no sound,no taste or smell.
The far-off nebula all empty, empty, empty
Only the blind restlessness of matter … [Read the rest...] “Winter, Cold and Graceful | Bhaben Barua | trans. Emdad Ullah”
Does the day break
With the sound of guns?
Not at all.
It breaks with the cry
Of that bird
Which nibbles through
The night’s darkness
Very slowly.
I shall die tomorrow
Let me remain alive today.
O,my swift-flowing sorrow,
Keep flowing
Through the narrow-crested forest.
I am not weary.
The somber even descends
The perturbed alarm of a weary clerk’s libido
In the eyes of the township
A nurse’s infirm inertness from sleeplessness;
In the interstices of the naked upright pines
There’s no sun; the sun’s sensation.
Senseless scribbling … [Read the rest...] “Shillong at Eventide | Navakanta Barua (trans.)”
Alighting from a Negro play
Cigar between his teeth
God pronounced:
Let there be light and light
The match-stick set the spring woods alight
Flowers and blood
And the hours of green darkness
Death and agony of the poison-blue sky… [Read the rest...] “The Black Girl in Search of God by Navakanta Barooah (trans.)”
Dreamer of paradise
Poet of achievement
Would you listen to solicitations
Of acrid tongues?
Would you revisit
To make this utterance:
you’d come but once and left forever
Never again to return!
Erecting a pleasure park
At Rajghat, Barakpore
we … [Read the rest...] “Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by Navakanta Barooah (trans.)”