Footsteps are under the
surveillance of the night lamp,
buses echo the weight of the
gossamer clouds, conspiring with music.
Fog comes in silence
to a closed door
the time is curling within,
crumbly, paper-thin, fragile.
A single star on the eastern sky
dives headlong into the pond
and holds the cold hand of the fish,
in some other time.
The blood clotting of my wound
lengthens on the backwall,
searching its own space inside
the blue inkpot.
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Gopal Lahiri
Picture Nick Victor
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Short Bio:
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 31books 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 16 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He has received Setu Excellence Award, Pittsburgh, US, in poetry in 2020. He has been conferred First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award on literature in 2024 for his significant contribution in Indian English Writing. His collection of poems ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets.’ has received Pan Asian Ukiyoto awards. First Prize Winner in Poetry Contest organised by 43rd World Congress of Poets in 2024.
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