Dr. Supatra’s evocative poem visits the world of a performer, exclusively for Different Truths.
Nearer the end And so much left undone Untouched…unsaid Waning lights Fading music The curtains Beginning to drop The audience now Restless Shifting focus A new order awaits… Something must be done And soon On an instant Something once dreamt of And forgotten In those chases and battles Then bring on my wear Roll on the mascara Moisten my skin Lights! Camera! Action! Motion! Feat! Cheer! Applause… Draw apart the curtains A grander show is on the way Audience… Do not leave The candle flickers The voice cracks But the best is yet to come…
Dr. Supatra Sen, Associate Professor, Asutosh College Kolkata is a veteran academician, teaching and researching in the fields of Botany and Environment. Besides international books, papers, and reviews, she has edited several UGC-funded ISBN volumes and is the founder and chief editor of an ISSN peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary academic journal, Harvest, since 2016. Her tryst with poetry began, in 2020, during the global pandemic and, in October 2021, her poetry anthology, My Autumn Sonata, was published.
By
By
By