I am living in the pain of a mature seed
Deep in maternal penance
Under the ground….
It’s the pain in which
The whole of black Africa lives
The blood-seed agog with a demonic life-flood,
Whose possible sprouting takes the breath away
From our uprooted deodars
One sun
Burning in the sky
Quenches the thirst of timeless ages
Sews the garment for the new-born
With the countless needles of its rays
I am shaken by a pain
Un-felt before…
A full moon bulging
In the womb of this cruel new-moon night.
Keshab Mahanta has contributed immensely to Assamese Literature and Poetry.The Axom Xahitya Xabha conferred him with the Raghunath Choudhary Award for his collection of verses titled Tomar Tez. The Sahitya Akademi award came in recognition of his lyrics in 1993 for the collection Mor Je Kiman Hepah.
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