KETAKI MAZUMDAR

 

Golden Hope

When I release the night’s abstinence,

Put thoughts to sleep…

In dawn spaces explore

Shift boundaries, make words balance into poetry…

I capture again and again

Luminous light and shadow connections,

In intimate and subtle intersections of time

The mirrors of my eyes 

delicately gleam and absorb details.

I’m trapped deliciously in listening,

To the crucible beats of a waking world

In me is watchfulness.

From the unseen and unheard

I knit delicately…

Reinvigorating a life of wonder

Delighting in a new day…

In an inner innate solitariness

A rosy fresh day of hope

embraced in a beaten sheen of gold.

 

Forgotten Corners

That walk

On autumn leaves

Warm fingers entwined

Orange with emotions,

Layers of many forgotten,

Disintegrating shades of dreams

Shivering

In the approaching winter breeze

Fragments of songs and words

Touched each leaf

They fell to the earth

Breaking a million heartbeats.

KETAKI MAZUMDAR

KETAKI MAZUMDAR is an educationist with a National Award for ‘Excellence in Teaching’. She is the recipient of several awards in field of Poetry as well. Her latest book “Toasted Orange Embers” has won her the ‘21st Century Emily Dickinson Award’, the ‘Sahitya Sparsh Award’ and the ‘Ukiyoto Poet of the Year Award’. Her poems reflect her excitement with the beauty of Nature, emotions of grief, joy, love, women, relationships. She gently touches on the spirituality and mysticism of life.