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Within this dark shell
All emptiness is substantial
The sky and the earth reach me
In all elastic opacity.
Severely sensuous is this mystic opacity
A self-indulging hermaphrodite god
The earthworm told me; the leech confided.
Self-indulgence begets nightmares
Bonny … [Read the rest...] “Ratnakara | Navakanta Barua (trans.)”
Cloistered
The fossil heaved its stony sigh
Moaning:
God’s failures have caused,
All his tears to helpless man.
(First published in 1970)
The Gloom
Last night
Someone poured ink into Umiam
How the streetlights emitted darkness!
The whole day the … [Read the rest...] “Cloistered, The Gloom, Tete-a-tete (3 poems) by Navakanta Barua (trans.)”
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”