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The Prelude to Creation
On that day of destruction
You took in your hand, my lord,
Your terrible lyre!
There was nobody joyous that day,
Even the sun and the moon were silent:
Across the horizon there suddenly flashed
Sighs … [Read the rest...] “The Prelude to Creation | Suryya Kumar Bhuyan”
Much have I wandered far and wide
And uncovered Nature’s canopy
Of her beauteous forms. But far above
Sparkles, the ambrosial epistle of my love
The wafted muse of poet’s bower may bloom,
That enraptures humankind far and near;
But … [Read the rest...] “A Letter from My Beloved | Hemchandra Goswami”
Hymn To Man
Individuals grow and weather, and grow again
The race never ends but continues forever
The human race is mysterious
Why call man mortal?
Devote yourself entirely to the service of man
Man must feel for man and … [Read the rest...] “Hymn to Man | Chandra Kumar Aggarwala”
This China is an Alien Land
l know of a far country
Knew their open minds;
The wide desert and the high hills
Were pictured deep and on the rock
Of our memory, and on their
Many a gray sheet.… [Read the rest...] “This China is an Alien Land | Navakanta Barua”
Bhiwanti
In just a wish, in a single night one can murder multitudes of men
And in a single night one can host a splendid memorial-service
As a matter of course, in our country, this very service is now … [Read the rest...] “Bhiwanti | Samir Tanti (with Translation)”
A rain-drenched flute kept playing
One by one dreams kept falling
like leaves
I’m a small sailboat
the note of the flute
makes me reach out to the banks
like a river
I would rather not spend this night alone… [Read the rest...] “The Gourd Blossom | Jiban Narah”
