The words
Remained
Untalked
In spite of several attempts
The Woman
in the next door
Walked in the alley
the way
She had gone several times
Unnoticed
The returning gale
Carried a few leaves with it
The sky did not change its colour
for hours together
Things went
Unnoticed
in the
Mournful Verandah of the afternoon
She turned her side in the bed
And, saw the slippers
One above the other
Thinking that
This will bring
Some good news.
About Me
- Amalendu
- Like Tukun says "To go up in the Sky you need a Guitar, Two wings and a few more things..." Amalendu Jyotishi is PhD in Economics. He has published several research papers and contributed to a digital documentary on National Parks issues. He is one of the core research members of ‘Asian Initiative on Legal Pluralism’ that primarily focuses on customary and folk laws relating to indigenous people’s rights. Poetry is his passion since a very young age. He has been writing and publishing in Oriya and English in different literary magazines and Newspapers.
12 comments:
This one is powerful! I love how it quietly ends...
p.s.- Great to see your work back!! :)
Thanks Andrew. I too liked it for its quiet ending..
I like this one!
Welcome back, Shyamalee. You were missed.
Thanks Aurora,
I was in the process of leaving Ahmedabad, and taking up a new assignment in Bangalore. In the mean time, had a bad accident and fractured my collarbone. Now almost recovered to say I am here to read, feel and experience all your words and images.
I am glad that you are better, but sorry that you were hurt at all!
~River~ said...
Slippers one over the other?
Where I come from, it signifies a journey in the near future.
How would the idea of a journey contrast with the "quiet" ending that you (and I too) like?
7:57 PM
Hi river welcome,
Due to my uncomfortable hand position and by mistake your comments got deleted, so as my replies. I am glad that I could retrieve your comments though not in its original form. Ya.. in my place too it symbolizes the same and that’s why I tempted it to call Journey. And to this quite ending I feel it is not as quite as it appears to be!!!
This is very good!! Like Andrew I like how it quietly ends.
Thank you Pat...
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