Sullen retreat from the celebrations A spectre of impending reality Dreamers are aware Of sudden changes in feelings Drunken revelry over widening chasms It feels so mundane to remain quiet Away from crowded opinions Shattered languages Half-hearted communications A kind of distress everywhere Irregular sighs and complaints Lonely contemplations are rare Hounded by intemperate thoughts Whirlwind adventures Excesses of impulsive decisions ~Amitav Continue reading Sudden Retreat
Unsettling calm stubbornly clings to reality Some mysterious stirrings are felt Unfathomable desires conspire against the day Ripples of uneasiness push away radiance A chase against an unwilling soul Cannot decide on light and darkness Sepia background changes the colour of life It hurts after trampling over despair Soundlessness is often mistranslated Sleep comes with rueful dreams ~Amitav Continue reading Uncalm
The peaceful thoughts, tired and failed, slumps resignedly Cannot complain about the effort to suppress them It was the daily reminders of how too much romanticism fails A world corners them repeatedly They bury themselves in the soul Peacefully, away from the accusations and suspicions No one would have understood them Only the magnanimous soul who understood their language The delicate moments unable to weather … Continue reading Forgotten
That which is being sought by the assembly of blurry dreamers Know not, the possibilities of the world that dawns Not even contemplating about the probabilities One thread that is being held on to, now unwound from the spool Chances of the daily thoughts getting entangled There are myriad changes blinking feebly for a while Like the ephemeral dreams across the unfortunate landscape The behemoth … Continue reading The Chances
Ignorant mind fears the intellectual’s narrative Intuitively naive Invades the space with arrogance Incendiary voices unite Inopportune moments Insolence becomes a legacy Irascible reality burns Impish beginnings lead to this -Amitav Continue reading Inopportune Time
I won’t go and fetch that thing That piece of darkness to complete the puzzle I would leave that place for an escape Do not depend on me to promise you against my will The shadows have been longer than expected Even with the light on, the house was swallowed by darkness It floated aimlessly even further in a different world Here you pester me … Continue reading Compulsive Darkness
There never was a sense of guilt about frittering away time Taking up the cause of some impulsive decisions It is unimaginable to distress the recess with unpromising thoughts If the eyes could only travel well past this time into the future A soul feels, the trepidations of a future ruined It will be delusional to not heed the warnings of the senses Still carrying … Continue reading Guiltless Time
How does one adust the vision according to the day’s demands Is there a scope, even a slim one, to provide some promising image Considering the light has not been tampered with Some intentions of the darkness’ have been duplicated since What is that liberty of thoughts that you speak of In the stale breath, that speaks in some offending language Clearly, it is a … Continue reading Diminishing
How far can I stretch my pen I don’t know yet What if the ink refuses to flow even if the inkpot is full The images that will fail to appear to this gloomy world Even the Moons and stars would play hide n seek too often If the canopy of delusions wrap the emotions for too long Would they be able to breathe? When … Continue reading Hopeful Pen
There are times when the whispers grow at a commanding pace Without raising their voice, they threaten to occupy the little space That I call my own- a slice of a world that balances between me and my soul It depends on how I defend it from faltering From the intense soundwaves inaudible to the human ears All that I can do is to keep … Continue reading When It is Essential to Walk Confidently
Amitav Chowdhury 