Poems of Ruma Dhang Adhikary
Ruma Dhang Adhikary , Bengali poet of this time, staying at Salkia ,Howrah, nearer to Kolkata. So far she has one book of verses , published. Also she is an Editorial member of zero boundary group.
Today we are glad to publish her three poems.
1: Broken bridge
I wish if I had a 'crying bench'
Beside a river-- with its slow motion
I would put down all the heavy weight sufferings
And feel free for sometimes
I see the broken bridge
Once I used to go to meet you
The day had flown away with you
And there remains no sympathy for the given words
You burried all, all and all.
Today you are busy with the uppermost 'Angels and God'
And listening all the songs
Sung by your heroines into your territory
But your threshold is empty -- no single one
To give you a space -- to continue their love -- forever
In a nutshell, I tell you
Oneday you have to sit down before the river
And I wish -- that day I would forget the bench
it will be the right process
Of making a new bridge for me
To cross over this river.
2 : I walk
I walk through the bridge...
The weary faces
running before the tempest,
coming from opposite to me with their own rivals,
heavy burdened for enterprise or kitchen,
inane stomach, mouth full of red poison
They are the warlords of own concrete walls
All are running alone
as came alone first
These are their own silent steps
towards the end of life-gyre
Irksome, dreariness, struggle, error...
Nothing
but a process of purification
3: Stranger
Like a stranger I meet you everyday
Flows on the note
Of a flute of a relation in the sunshine
once that I heard from a hill-station:
The termites have eaten
The mind of a wood
Then I must say I will alive
Holding up a torch in the uttered black coverage
Of the tired earth
And you are still going on too
Treating like a stranger everyday
For everyday...
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