I find joy in comparing border and boundaries,
separate and different- one space from another.
The rigid and the yielding- the subtle contrast,
light and shadow doze in the silence of the valley.
I love the openness of windows- it carries meaning
and the gentle flowing forms of mango trees.
The blue mountain is mute at the sundown
shaping how we perceive and interact at the junction.
The trees evoke a sense of freedom, swaying
beyond set confines, into glimpses of new realms.
I trespass on the grass, write elegies on the inverted
leave, and on carbon paper that arrives in stillness.
I search water stained graffiti and eye-catching
wrecks, draw my mummified face in the last trench.
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@gopallahiri
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Gopal Lahiri
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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