SELECTED LOVE POEMS BY SHASWATA GANGOPADHYAY
Extra marital affairs As you beacon, it causes me to dance my fingers with eyebrow raised The hints of dumb are blended towards the ears of deaf The seeds of sun plant, if broken and grasped into the two eyes How to remove gum? Thinking thus I walk around the pavement 2. Just come forward once,and then go back taking an U-turn, You’re as timid as a squirrel, also shy by nature Is marriage to you as fragile as bone-china cup? Will it crumble down into pieces against a light push? 3. I’ve swallowed, but couldn’t digest you properly Stuck only like a chewing gum in my tongue Love and hatred lie down under the same blanket As if they are two little sister, two conjoined Siamese twins
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4. You’re as it were a spider, never bite, only lick With that strong poison enter into deepest part of my skin If not treated, gangrene is unavoidable, with this fear at midnight I nibble from the injuries the living bladder by scratching with my nails
The Silk Road Literature Series 2021
