Here’s a jugalbandi in two poems by Ritamvara (as daughter) and Ipsita (as mother). They have been composing poems in sync with each other. Here are two poems by two gifted poets, a Mother’s Day special of Different Truths.

You curl up to my curves,
Your softness
That of silken
Sand dunes
On a winter night.
Soft sand,
Shimmering in
White halo.

The halo of your
Purity
Infancy is blessed
For you are a receptor
For nothing but love.

And yet …
I feel a storm in your soul
My child…
A sandstorm brewing
Even as you sleep
Like a rose,

All furled up
In petal layers
Your core
In sync with
Mine.

Your skin breathes
And I breathe with it,
Inhaling Jasmine
On a silken night.

Stillness
Interjected by the rumble
Of a sandstorm brewing …

All the while
I hold you
To my heart
Kiss your eyes
So that all you
See and dream
Are fragrant blossoms

Life’s storms
Can rage
Outside for now

My child sleeps
And she will open
Her eyes
To Peace

©Ipsita Ganguli.

Note: Ritamvara Bhattacharya and Ipsita Ganguli first met on Facebook and were soon bonded in a poetic “mother-daughter” fondness. They regularly write spin offs on each others pieces

Here is one such composition, Peace I & II.

The former is written from the child’s mind craving peace from her mother, a solace for her torments.

The latter is from the mind of a mother, who knows that even though she wants to protect her child from life, there will be ups and downs. Yet she is determined to bring up her child to peace!

Pix from Net.

Ipsita Ganguli

Ipsita Ganguli is a business consultant and poet-travel writer-heritage-and-art enthusiast. Her poems have been published in various e-zines and anthologies. She is a main character in the Kolkata Cocktail poetry film. She has ideated and conducted online talk shows, Cafe, and curated offline poetry events for Kolkata Literary Meet and at Kolkata Centre for Creativity. Ipsita has authored two poetry books, “Of Love, Longing, and Random Pondering” and “Rooted, India 75, and We the People.”