by JAYDEEP SARANGI
Words are loaded with silences random,
many windows holding images and conceits
touching the rainbows in the limitless blue.
The queen of words has many rooms to her fashion,
lived with shades she keeps words as her guardian sylphs
hovering around and protecting her from the valour of poets.
In this pristine air notes she keeps, holds in phrases.
Her happiness heals wounds of the walls elsewhere.
Today, darkness has a voice, mysterious caller tones
my desire has an evening with my undisclosed mate.
All arrivals are welcome, dark clouds
some may rain, some will wait.
Pictures captured in time each day that passes
birds fly home before the crickets’ clamour,
Parral to Moorgate I hear her silence rising
on my sinful eyes without any synonym,
memories unfold page after page like menu at a banquet.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Jaydeep Sarangi is an Indian poet poetry activist with ten poetry collections in English latest being Memories of Words ( 2023).and scholar on postcolonial studies and Indian Writings with forty one books anchored in Kolkata/Jhargram, . Widely anthologised and reviewed as a leading contemporary poet Sarangi is on the editorial boards for journals of repute, devoted to poetry and poetry criticism. With Rob Harle he has edited six anthologies of poems from Australia and India which are a wealthy literary link between the nations. With Amelia Walker, he has guest edited a special issue for TEXT, Australia. His recent book includes, Mapping the Mind, Minding The Map:Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets, Sahitya Akademi, 2023 and A Life Uprooted: A Bengali Dalit Refugee Remembers, Sahitya Akademi, 2023. Mapping the Mind, Minding the Map ( 2023, Sahitya Akademi) is his latest book. Sarangi is currently the President of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC) and Vice President, EC, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata. Living with poets and poetry, Sarangi is principal of New Alipore College, Kolkata. He may be reached at: jaydeepsarangi1@gmail.com Website : https://jaydeepsarangi.in/
Last updated April 11, 2025