Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 3, Number 1. May 2020. ISSN: 2581-7094
Cherry Tree in Snowy
Dress
--- Mainak Dutta
Last
night you talked of cherry tree
Which
by your window stands
Draped
in snow there you did see
A
fairy from a different land,
And
asked me how it was that
You
thought of me then too
As
if I went there and sat
On
the bench just beside you,
And
we together picked them
Those
cherries from the tree
Late
winter then came
Before
us to make us see-
How
cherries despite snow
Had
the redness quite juicy,
We
there sat and savoured
As
the day passed quite
Cherries
in us sweetness poured
As
we took them right
Into
our mouths till they turned
More
juicy and sweet,
We
then together learnt
What
could be a treat
That
us we could always give
As
we would together sit
Somewhere
in between
Our
dreams and wakefulness
Somewhere
in a wintry scene
Of
a cherry tree in snowy dress.
Uni-verse
There
might be something
That
tells us all, all the time
We
can do everything we wish
But
we can never lose the rhyme,
We
can go north further north
Blizzards
we can wear on sleeves
We
can stand in the face of storm
And
can write a dawn before we sleep
There
might be something dear
That
takes away from us all our strife
We
can take the Chanukah song
and
be glad with it in our mortal life
What
could be of more bearing
Than
to make out the pied one
Which
is there in you and me
and
in every grain and everyone.