Khajuraho Paintings

My beloved
I remember
your side parting
And your lips
on which I can put mine
to carve khajuraho paintings.

Kolkata, India

I do not desire

I do not desire you anymore
However, I can live my life
by dreaming about you
by thinking of you...

Please come
Please let's be playful and
seize the beauty of moon in the cool water.

My dream beckons.....
The darkness spreads under the Krishnachura
My imagination sleeps in that shadow...

I do not desire you anymore
I do not.

Your blurred face
Your leaning body
Your indifferent look
I can spend my life with that...

Kolkata, India

(Translated; The Bengali poem was written on 26.03.2003).

Silent Dark Night

A still and silent night
I see the shooting stars;
Sitting alone in such a silent night
I have thought many times
to extend my hand towards you.

But I know
I cannot and
You cannot.

I cannot extend my hand
And you cannot keep yours on mine.
So, I sit still
I see the shooting stars in a dark, silent night.

(Translated poem; Original was written on 6.10.2002)

Please do not show

Please do not show your wound
No, not anymore.
Please spend these chilly nights alone!
Please spend this time in disguise, in secret.
You do not need to explain
Because I know
That your heart is full of storm;
But let it be like that
let it not be rain.

Kolkata, India

(Translated and expanded the original meaning of a poem written in 28.04.2002)

My heart sinks....

When I am sad
The sky becomes sad too...
And then all the clouds suddenly appear to mourn.

Rain Rain Rain
Everything floats...
Words, Smell, Scenes,
And her kajal....

I try to forget
I try hard;
My heart sinks...
And the next day
And the next...

Kolkata, India

(Translated from a Bengali poem written on 23.05.2002)

Please come

In my city
rain has come early this time...
So, will you come?

Will you come like the old days?
Will you bring back the memory of past summer?
Will you wear the purple colored saree 
Or my favorite light yellow one?
Will you come?


Please come....

(Translated and slightly modified from a Bengali poem written back in 2002-03).

Kolkata, India 

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The original Bengali one...

এবার তো বর্ষা নেমেছে আগে
আসবে কি তবে
পুরোনো দিনের মতো
গত গ্রীস্মের ছবি নিয়ে
বেগুনি শাড়ির পাড়েতে
কখনো বা বাসন্তী আঁচলে।