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A day of days

Shaswata Gangopadhyay

Shaswata Gangopadhyay is a poet born &
Brought up in Kolkata, India

A day of days comes such a way
As if a jockey's bending his body on a naughty horse,
Before the blinking of eyes 24 hours are over
A day of days comes even such a way
As if a snail crawls with its tired body
A day of days comes such a way
As if it's the very gape of a gluttonous monster
Whose uvula is visible,deeply red,
Nightmares are pacing up and down
A day of days comes even such a way

Like cooling water-melon in hot summer noon,
While biting,it seems as it were
God's standing just a hand apart
A day of days comes such a way
When words,like the tiny fishes in herds
Glitter in the midst of poems
A day of days comes even such a way
When there's no word in the fingers,
Just like the smoke of burning dry leaves
It vanishes in the ether in circles

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