NANDITA SAMANTA

NANDITA SAMANTA

THE NIGHT SINGS

My night anchors in your

eyes

My zodiac wishes to rest there,

Now, and for years to come.

Your enigmatic smile in moonlight

Is a prophase of Mars, not far from my dawning Sun

You are all - my going, gone and yet to come.

You sew my night tightly with your thread

Behold me in my tinsel and chiffon  blue

Each fibre looping you to me - into, beyond and through.

Your charm pulls me up as steam from the arch

Like rat behind Pied Piper behind you I march

Your breath explodes all shades of blue,

Stars shine but dwindle between me and you.

From the shadows you whisper my name

Wake me up, but your voice is lost

Was it an act of omission my love?

Or you and the sensuous night both dissipated

In deathly mystique silence !

The wind on the window hushes

Nesting sleep beneath its

lashes

The night sings me a song...

UNSAID

You know not what pain I hide in words

A world hides in a blob!

I always wanted to say oceans

But ended up saying a drop

Judged by a shell that I fake in smiles

I had a story to tell all the while

In the yolk of truth embodied in tears.

Walking through the crisscrosses of destiny for miles

Through the night's susceptible hours I search

With my tongue for some words

reminiscing You,

One that doesn't insist on your Oneness,               Which I doubt, still exists in me very much.

Will you care to listen to the unsaid?

Might find featuring somewhere in a shade

In all those things I wanted to, but couldn't say

In my reflection find yourself in a colourful recollection .

MIND AND HEART

My mind is my anchor,

Keeps me steady as a rock,

Always keeping me safe from the raging emotions,

From the anxieties that toss me around;

Often would whisper and say

"Everything will be okay

Just stay calm".

But vulnerable heart gives me away

Always bringing memories  back

In surprises takes me aback

Breaking every time you appear!

Making me go numb, and I fear

Once more, I'll not able to close

that emotional door, once I chose

To keep open uncontrollably filling

You in all emptiness and dwellings.

Slowly I make way

For heart beats to melt

away

and flow as million words

that escape and take shape

in written, and unwritten messages

Though never to reach

but in its existence

embrace you in each

lucid composition

My mind knows, in you lives the real me

So sets me free...in free verses.

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NANDITA SAMANTA

NANDITA SAMANTA is a multilingual poet, an author, a reviewer, an artist and a dancer. Her poetry collection 'Scattered Moments' and three of her short stories have been published. Her writings feature in different international and national anthologies, magazines, journals, newspapers and webzines and have also been translated in other languages. Her artworks have been displayed, appreciated and sold at various events and exhibitions.