POEMS

Kolkata! The Land of Most Cows and Romantic Poetry

Kolkata! A place that launched most cows and romantic poetry

On your streets and beside your lovely lamp posts are cows and human bodies lie to sleep at night

What a sight to behold under the darkened moonlight and the peeping gaze of your sweet sunrise.

Kolkata! A place of endless trails of shops and intricate displays of goods

Colorful and shapely sarees, chai and sugarcane juice carts, with tiny flies abound, is just too tempting to deny

On your pavement, one cannot help but gaze in awe where these trails of shops will ever end in what seem to be an infinite horizon.

Kolkata! you are a place to reckon with

At this age and day, your men are still in skirts roaming around in groups or in pairs, holding hands and fingers intertwined

Seeing them is like being back to the paleolithic stage of civilization, frozen in the bronze age of time.

All these and all, your culture and traditions are well-preserved guarded like precious artifacts

Your people are innately good-natured with contagious enthusiasm of life and creativity to survive your historical landscape and communal culture.

Kolkata! You are a place to behold.

The Sound of the Rain

Love the sound of the rain,

Knocking on my glass window pane.

Sweet rhythm, I imagine,

Humming of the past melancholic tune.

Oh, what glittering sheets falling from above,

Looking like silver droplets of love offerings.

From the warmth of my cozy abode,

Alone but content of the memories it brings.

Love the sound of the rain,

Washing away the cobwebs from my brain.

Sweet memories, still remain,

Singing soulful songs of present refrain.