October 2020
Bio Note: I am a retired geo-scientist and now engage in full-time writing bilingual (English and Bengali)
poetry and do book reviews and translation. Yet my first love is travelling and photography. Being a Tiger fan, I love
Jungle Safari too much. I jointly edited the Indo-American Anthology titled Bridging Continents.I have a few collections of
poems to my credit.
Fragments
1.
The evening lights
paddle me to the unknown river
flames and ashes conspire death
tears washing my eyes,
the anger though.
2.
Silence in my room
should I stay or leave now?
night is a jotting pad-
stars write half lyrics,
they don’t inhabit the world.
3.
Memories with untamed manes
strike the grounds,
laughter ripples a reverbed melody
the wind buries the tongue,
my voice is silenced.
©2020 Gopal Lahiri
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