Poems
BITTER BETRAYAL
Stabbed once again,
As always in the back,
As always by our own,
As always by cowardly attack.
What is it with us?
How can we be so?
Though born...
THE TIGER’S TEARS
Written in 2024 after the horrifying incidents of mass rape in Sandesh Kali, West Bengal, this poem is the author’s salute to the brave...
THE LAST RIFLEMAN
Upon the barren,freezing slopes,
Under the old holy tree,
Lay still the last rifleman,
Now passed on into history.
As his warm blood trickled out,
Onto the frozen white...
Trees with minds of their own
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree...