NANDITA SAMANTA

NANDITA SAMANTA

WALKED AWAY

There was no argument, no fight;

Yet you left without a word quietly

Perhaps, tired of the monotony...

In the midst of a dark night!

Left for a reason so naive,

Far beyond my perception.

There you walked down the narrow lane,

While I cried of insolence, in acute pain,

"Only death will do us apart”

Words now a faint recollection...

Like a bouquet of bane in indolent Fane

Like a dim figure in grotesque gloom -

I saw vague shadows dancing in my room.

Shattered and forlorn I cried to sleep...

Tears absolving ... cajoling wound deep.

A few wispy memories of togetherness;

Left an undefined feeling of sadness,

An obscure turn of events,

Your words obnubilating your intention;

Was this veiled message, my love’s destination?

Never meant to hurt you, never would wish goodbye,

You were so arrogant, were just another man!

I alone am dealing with the ghost of the past,

Pretend to be oblivious as much as you can.

Stretching beyond ordinary scope,

Still holding on to the sinking hope...

My love like fire in the hearth,

Now, although burnt charcoal black,

Will wait for light years in despair

Until the day you come back.

POISONOUS  LABURNUM

In darkness like a nymph you rejoiced

Holding a bunch of laburnum

Your bouquet of love!

The hatred in your eyes had seen

I died much before you longed.

But my scathed heart still whimpers

As lusty misty night lingers

Still earthly desires in it burn

Like a little nightingale still it cries

Delicate breast against a thorn.

Have learnt to live in hurt and pain

...Smiling all along

Pain, you could  never feel or see

For, all those life pages; I have torn.

Sweet love, longed for a tomorrow ,

Tempted my cold heart, nudged and poked

Swirled in the shadow.

As I tried to sleep

Whispery sweet cravings

Woke me up with a start

Dreams reflected on a colorful kaleidoscope!

Dream again never!

Seen them fly away

With the westerlies

Standing on a desolate beach

Seen the golden sands slip off my palm.

Cried hugging the blank canvas

Watched the tulips wither and scatter every dawn

Love again never!

In your unrequited love,

My heart, still is numb.

O SAKI

In a crystal droplet I have seen a world,

I fade in your colourful fizz and twirl

holding you to my lips...time flies.

In an unknown magic glows

these beseeching  eyes!

In elation, I have entrusted my own fate...

I drown in the madness of your love

made you my Lord, I don't regret

You make me heave, make me jive

Without you barren I breathe!

Saki, don't betray, I pray!

Like, a marshland giving way to heath

I refill you knowing, in each sip,

I'm nearing inevitable death

let me kiss, remain in a bliss

until my last breath.

NANDITA SAMANTA

NANDITA SAMANTA is an Indian poet, a resident  of Kolkata, West Bengal.  Presently a house wife, was in a teaching profession and had trained many participants for inter state and state dance competitions. Although a Bengali, is a multilingual poet, a short story writer, a reviewer, a dancer and an artist. Her works are well appreciated and published and her paintings have been displayed at various exhibitions. Her works feature in various international and national anthologies, magazines , journals and e-zines, poems have been aired in U.K. And US radio channels and translated in 2-3 different languages. Three of her short stories have been published and 3 in the process.