Category: Poetry
When We Were Kids
Oil on Titan
And did great claws in ancient time slash upon Titan’s pitch-dark hills? And did huge towering lizards roar through Saturn’s moon’s subzero chills? And did their mighty bones decay and seep through Titan’s frozen soil? Who cares about the reason why that distant moon yields lovely oil? Bring me my bombs of Yankee gold! Bring me my
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Pussies Galore
My daughters told me that I wasn’t right when I said that Toby was black and white. He had one grey hair but apart from that (they assured me) he was a black cat. That day my brain must have been foggy and I mistook him for another moggie. What I remember is that he was frisky; Perhaps I was
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Waiting for an Apology
Waiting for an apology from a quick-judging, self-righteous wrongun is like waiting for a lap-dance and a hand-job from Kim Jongun.
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Family reunion
The Family gathers… around the table they chatter and talk, emotions mingling amid the clink of glasses, feasting upon the crumbs of conversation, watching each other like fearful strangers, to one side the small child who is simple delight, a smiling innocent of delusions offspring plays happily ignorant of the judgement of others as their, mother smiles with a
» Read moreA song by Rajanikanta Sen, translated
This is a very modest attempt in translating a devotional song written by Rajanikanta Sen. If interested, you may listen to the song sung by Krishna Chatterjee by clicking here Bengali কবে তৃষিত এ মরু ছাড়িয়া যাইব তোমারি রসালো নন্দনে কবে তাপীত এ চিত করিব শীতল তোমারি করুনা চন্দনে। কবে তোমাতে হয়ে যাব আমার আমি হারা তোমারি নাম নিতে নয়নে
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