Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume
6, Number 1. May 2023. ISSN: 2581-7094
Peace
And I say again, for
emphasis,
To no one but myself,
since no one is
with me.
You know if you are
there or everywhere,
It is all those red
eyes,
If you can imagine, it
is all those greed
that lead you down to
abyss.
Accept the good life
and be happy.
Accept too, each
action, each spoken word
spoken with love and
light brings congruence.
Imagine, you leaders
speaking,
And don’t worry about
what is power,
or what is plain truth
or what is revenge,
And each right word
brings peace and harmony.
Universe
It is the middle
of summer-
There is a mad scramble to identify
some pattern in the white clouds.
I walk on the flower garden
Rose petals drop on the
tiled roof,
Birds and bees are a simple binary in my village.
A sparrow disturbs a fallen leaf.
the leaf another,
till they are blown away by the wind.
A frog uplifts its grey skin near the pond
and thinking: something may come
I see the ant line, they carrying crumbs of soil
this way and that way,
They are ordinary, the common, the very own.
How humble their efforts
How tiny their strengths,
It’s a journey just beginning
and no darkness anywhere
Let us hope it will always be like this.
Each of us going in our own way
building a peaceful universe.
Simmering Inlet
For now, the world is
still and clear-
just leave a little
space,
the birds fly past
uninterrupted, upwards
towards the mountain top,
I put my hands on paper
yet the moments
losing their way after
a few minutes
in my closed palms,
etching blue butterflies.
Also, these hands I
open
brimming with soft
shadows to rinse
my eyes in the dusk,
these hands know who
will not
sleep tonight and
remind me again
where a face emerges, a
deep
simmering inlet that
brings amity.
Twilight
And her eyes brim over
with the thought
of twilight when on the
other side
of the life a river is
slowly sending
invite for sailing.
Then in the depths
of sleep a big boatyard
linking us to the
distant bridges,
to the land of
tranquility,
for forty years we have
been staying
together and only now
do I know that love
flows
from my arteries to his
and vice versa.
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