Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 7, Number 2. November 2024. ISSN: 2581-7094
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Sangeeta Dey (Roy)
On the cusp of dusk,
When the folds of the night arrives
From pale black
To deeper shades.
It’s enigmatic eyes pierces through the heart.
And layers mysterious strokes,
Soaking you in its being, with myriad hues
With its serenity and the hush balmy tone in the
bruised soul.
Sometimes decked as a pretty bride
Whose eyes conjure majestic hues
Splashed with vibrancy,
The night air emanates a serenade.
Sometimes, it injects heavy laden swirls
In the coils of the heart,
Robbing colours and luminescence.
With looming, light squeezing shadows.
Sometimes it gyrates to rhythmic tunes
Allowing the fragrance of the night queens to flow
in
And inebriate the sunken self
Inducing redolent stupor.
Sometimes it just sings a symphony
It’s musical cadence evoking nostalgia,
From the shadows of the past and yet
Stitching dreams with the fabric of hope.
The lady of the night, paints her pictures
With the colours of your choice,
Infuses light even with overcast skies.
For it emanates the grace emitted by your embrace.
So as the day wheezes by and melts into the night,
The mellifluous zephyr, devoid of harsh rays
Gathers more momentum, with its stretching arms.
Under the silvery bubbles of the night sky.
The light dots the Earth of the night,
You can inhale the aromatic petals, of the night’s
apron.
Hear the whispers of the wind
As all resentment vapourizes by the light of the
night.
Night often is a unmasked countenance,
Offering ascent to the eternal light,
Into a infinite realm, away from fleeting moments.
If only we know how to venture into the light of its
arms.
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Bio:
Sangeeta
Dey (Roy) is an author, poet, editor, fiction and
non-fiction essayist who has been published widely nationally. Author of two
books of poems, Whispers In The Blue and Twilight in the Woodland.
She’s member of IPPL and ispell. A teacher by profession, she hails from
Haflong, Assam, India.
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