রঙ্গীন চশমা

রঙ্গীন চশমা
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কাছে এসো, আরও খানিক কাছে
এবার তোমার রঙ্গীন চশমা দিয়ে দেখি, রূপকথার শেষটা...
চক্ষু ল্জ্জার বেড়া জাল কাটিয়ে
সীমিত সান্নিদ্ধের মাত্র প্রচেষ্টা?
নাকি বুধধিজীবির নিছক ভণিতা?
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বুঝি ছদ্মবেশী ভালোবাসা
প্রাত্য়হিক একমুঠো রেশন
ফোনে কটা জৈবিক কথা
হৃদয়ের বুবূক্ষুতা- ‘না’, দূর হয় না II
শুধু খানিক সময় কাটার ভালো লাগা….
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উন্মাদ ভরসা ওই রঙ্গীন চশমায়
তাই দিয়েছিলাম তোমায়
এলচুল ওড়ার ছন্দ আর ভেজা শাড়ীর গন্ধ
ভালবাসো নিশ্চিত
তবে সে আমার ছদ্ম নামটা মাত্র…..
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Oct 15, 2015

ডাগ়র মেয়াছেলা

ডাগ়র মেয়াছেলা
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এ কেমন সোহাগ লো স্বোয়ামীটোর?

মরদ বোটেক ...এক্কেবারে
...সেই তখনই শুধালে, আজ ভাত রেধেচিস ঝুঁটি ???

মরণ আমার.....ভাতের হাঁড়িটূ মনে হলো উয়ার মাথাতে বসায়েইন দিই

সোহাগ বোটেক...কিছু বলতে লারলি. ....

To many and many weddings in my village and yours, in your city and mine, which transcends to marriage, or don't they????

you

.....You agonized my past
I fell in LOVE

...Scissored my present
I tolerated

...Assured of a sumptuous future
I smiled
.
..
the dead don't CRY....

FINESSE

....You taught it so well
I learnt it with integrity
the craft of finesse...
.
We parted. We were so polite !!
The finishing line, drawn with alacrity
.
Such finesse!!!

SHADES

SHADES
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Same. Everything. 
Dot on time. 
College canteen. Snacks and tea. 
Walk along
Await dusk to gather, Darkness to seep
Sit by that lone culvert
Gradually, hands on hands
....Talks, No talks
Mingling moments
She hums, he taps
In darkness, they smile...
;
;
;
Darkened in her locked hostel room, the table-lamp, chagrined.

WINGS and SHADES

WINGS and LEAVES
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WINGS and LEAVES
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Kiddo steps and she sparrow-ed to him
Delicate prance, Wanted to clutch, 
But alas!

He rolled, Rumbling by 

..Concerned,  
Did you fall? 
Did it hurt? 

.
She fluttered and trotted 
To each of them now
Helter-skelter
Crimson-orange-yellow-brown
Brownian motion, strewn around

.
Sudden, she looks up the birch
and then the cedar, and then her branch
Eyes moistened,.... Where's her roost?
He lies fallen and her den is lost?

.
The autumn wind, as if whistled by
Fight or Flight? Quick. Decide. 

She brisked again and beaked him tight, 
Twig by twig, set her nest right

..Lullaby tuned, in the zephyr of the night 

"...Thou wings, spry you to the sky 
...My wings, ground me here
...How high you fly OR how low I bow
...We flutter, We color, We have miles to go"

13 Nov, 2015

lingering

At some place isolated
water locked, uninhabited 
life surfing surefooted, unseen 
breathtakingly uninhibited
azure expanse kissing scarlet horizons
gulls gliding over water and sand
damp footmarks side by side
roaming on loamy land
barren beaches with twitched contours
grunting to continued wavy tease
palmtrees moving unrhythmically
in not-so-genlte, pushy breeze
wandering, wondering cumulus
cushioning soft feather pillow
resting, restive, restless, rustic
sweaty, musky, accusing, mellow
world so very complete...
Outside twilight 
merging to star studded night
inside flickering light,
moving shadows on illuminated screen
over loud music and melodramatic utterances
faint hum coming off projection den,
around handful others
indulged in themselves,
face salty, musky and damp
invited to dance there and then,
wish, l could dance
wish I matched in magnitude in mellowness 
All the news summed in just us
it was the dream, it would have been home
we would have been living thus
but, yes all we got was
some drops of dew
I know
how badly I wronged you.
wish I can strain out my guilt
wish forgetfulness could be summoned ...