Like a pebble skimming across a glacier
a tone setting prophecy and harbinger.
Like a pair of forlorn eyebrows
some mention of its very first breath.
Like stay back and think of turmoil
an end and a beginning.
Like a whisper heard in the last tram
a tale written in unrhymed cantos.
Like seven second snapshot of things
with too many paralyzed half-dreams.
Like keeping silent in this bleeding night
and amongst a sweating multitude.
All roll into one, a life in microcosm
in the atmosphere of a razing inferno.
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Gopal Lahiri
@gopallahiri
Picture Nick Victor
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Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 33 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred journals and anthologies globally His poems are translated in 18 languages and published in 19 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021 and Best of the Nets for poetry in 2025. His ‘Selected Poems’ was published by Classix, New Delhi. His recent book ‘Wasp and Filament ‘ was published by Hogg Press, Madison, US
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