An enigmatic love poem, about the Gopikas, exclusively for Different Truths.
Who is in your mind, all day long
For whom do you your garland weave
For whom does your heart hum that song
What tales do you spin, to step out of home,
For your secret rendezvous, quietly leave?
Who are you, with an empty pitcher
Alone by the bank of the swirling river?
Who comes in a boat, oars beating time
Singing a song to your heartbeat’s chime?
Why do your senses, in anticipation quiver,
To the beat of the oars, ripple and shiver?
Let the pitcher get its fill
The hour of dusk, is quiet and still,
The walk back home, is a long long walk
With a full pitcher in the sway of the hip
And the rise and fall of the heaving hill.
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Prof Sonjoy Dutta Roy retired as Professor/Head, Department of English, Dean of Arts, and Coordinator of Centres for Theatre/Films and Media Studies at the University of Allahabad. Senior Fulbright Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Fellow at Louisiana State University, and UGC Visiting Fellow at Jadavpur University. His papers on theatre/poetry featured in leading journals. Over three decades, he directed Indian/American plays and lectured at UC Berkeley, UConn, Tufts, and more. Poetry collections: The Absent Words (1998), Into Grander Space (2005), Diary Poems (2012), and the forthcoming Of Blood and Book. Poems shortlisted by the British Council, the Poetry Society of India, Chandrabhaga, and Kavya Bharti. He is our National Editor: Academics.
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Well woven words—- very nice
Thank you Surabhi Singh……I have been experimenting in English with some of the rich bangla folk and lyric traditions!
So beautifully expressed sir. ❤️
Thank you friends for your responses…….it is important for me as I am experimenting with traditional Bangla lyrics shapes and teascreated into the English tongue
Nicely written sir!Specially now at the hour of crisis,only the feelings of love can give us some peace and spread peace as well.
Very nice,sir! Love poems are the need of the hour.
Nice love poem.
Answer : Every thing is for my Lord KRISHNA! Hare Krishna!, Hare Krishna!
I have secularized the song…made it personalised, individual8sed and subjective…..the tradition of devotional poetry of course is there in the background
A love poem full of passion and rhythm as well as beautiful imagery!