Say you not,
Happy,
Happy new year
Pikar daru,
Deshi or videshi,
Native and local or foreign liquor
As daru is daru,
Wine is wine.
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Jayanta Mahapatra is a poet of ideas,
As the plays of George Bernard Shaw are,The plays of ideasAnd he a talk man giving talksSo is Jayanta MahapatraA professor of physics, but a poet of English,Indian EnglishAbsurd, existential,Samuel BeckettianDelving into the existential drama of the absurd,Questioning the purpose of living,Who we are, what our purpose,Why are we.
Is this called modern poetry,
I am going, you are coming,We are conersing and chatting?Even if I am a poetaster, I mean a rhymer,A commoner, a non-poetturned to poetry as for name’s sakeAnd popularityWithout spending money, trying to be a poet,Nothing to spend on pen and paper,Publishing and printingAnd assessment,just go on calling poemsAfter uploading your materials,Posting on the internet…
Romantically yours,
Only yours.
Common Man Party
Under the banner of the unknown citizen,But are not common,But uncommon,Commonly not,Uncommonly.Doing politicsIn the bazaarWith the ragtag coalition,I mean the ragged men,Making a mockery of democracy.
Nazrul,
SingingShyasangeet?In which terracotta templeOf heart,Lie you singingThe songs of Kali?Your Shyasangeet,ShyamasangeetTouches me deeply, Nazrul.You fluting,Fluting in the terracotta temple,Lost in flutingIn your love for Kali!Why, why is Kali Shyama,Why, why Dark Black,The Myth of CreationSo wrapped in mysteries?So is Radha Shyam,Somewhat dark, but beautifully bluish,So we drenched in our devotion,The colour impacting us!
Who could ever
That, that had beenOur last,Last meeting?Who,Who couldThat,That was ourLast,Last meeting?And,And met weFor,For the last time?