Tag: #glopowrimo

• April 16, 2017

  16th April

  

  We’re not lovers a’more, nor are we acquaintances… The rose, once red, now discolored and an obscure mark in the yellow pages, Dust it and blow it away in the wind when the wind will be of winter or late summer. The emptiness, stretching over on my bed, will be looking for you– always or […]
• April 15, 2017

  Waiting…Longing…

  

  Breath
• April 14, 2017

  Quintet (Clerihew)

  

  Another interesting prompt–Clerihew. It’s a whimsical, four-line biographical poem. So, as a Bengali and as Indian we have few colorful characters. I’m taking my takes on four such personalities and a popular animated character to write clerihews on. I’ve also attached few line bio on each character to know them better along with events or […]
• April 13, 2017

  Iztiraar (Ghazal)

  An interesting prompt it is. Ghazal. I, being, an avid listener to Ghazals of Mirza Ghalib sung by maestros like Ghaulam Ali, Jagjit Singh and more had tried few in Bengali mainly, but, never in English. So, here’s an octet as an attempt.  The word “Iztiraar“, in title, is an Urdu word meaning “Restlessness” in […]
• April 12, 2017

  Hunter & Haunted

  

    Amazed. Blazed by balustrade of bed, She smile subtly; shining was Her eyes–ebony exotic enigmatic. Laughed. Tied tightly. Bite lightly. Skim deeply. She is toy nothing more than that. Night not old; night not young. Demanded. Want more. More she wants. Inside her, insist she; escape I want. Hunter chained, haunted unchained. –xx– National Poetry […]