Poems
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...
SUN AND MOUNTAINS (Aruna – Achal)
From across the blazing plains of Assam,
Along the mighty Brahmaputra we rode.
Soon climbing through the winding roads,
To the gateway of Arunachal….Tezpur.
At times in the...