ASOKE KUMAR MITRA

ASOKE KUMAR MITRA

DREAMS OF A SUNFLOWER

Shapeless thoughts

Dreams have fallen asleep

Sunflower, a fluttering angel

Invisible wings of desire

Turned the night into a love story

The silence of soft lips

Moon sleeping

Sunflower laughs

Wounded night

Left a love note

At the wounded sky

©Asoke Kumar Mitra, Kolkata, India, 2018

WHIRLWIND

Memories spread quietly on the boulevard,

Untamed heart shaped clouds,

Our memories  buried within autumn flowers

Stitching moonlight on the stone

We climb through

Heart shaped leaves,

Secret desire, love is like the wind.

Stain of memories

Reckless

Deserted

Invisible magic touch

A silent stalker

We return to our silence.

©Asoke Kumar Mitra, Kolkata, India, 2018

GRAFFITI OF DARKNESS

Graffiti of darkness, corridors of night

A forest where the shadows played

Azure  mountain trembling in the eyes of autumn

It was raining and the whispers of stars

Like a mist you come to tame the wild

Buried in me

Huddled  corpses in the dark and the

Phantom fear, clenched lilac

And the unspoken words

Between my fingers a sacred river ran

Tonight we shall go to river side

To sing a sweet melodious song

Darkness smiled as the moon closed  its eyes…

Night is over and our memories have set sail…

© Asoke Kumar Mitra, Kolkata,India,2018

EMPTY WINDS

    

Rhythm of your heart

Mundane untouched feelings

Passing clouds, passing stream,

Tucked inside your heart

Tears slide

Moon bounced

Circled around

Close your eyes

Drowsy sky

Memories wondering when

I will fall asleep

Don’t know what you want

Agony of moon

Only to find tears written

Holding you in my arms

Reunite at dusk again

Two arrogant hearts…

©Asoke Kumar Mitra, Kolkata,India,2018

ASOKE KUMAR MITRA

ASOKE KUMAR MITRA is from Kolkata, India. He studied at Hindu School and St Xavier’s College. He is a retired journalist who has worked in several newspapers. His poems are translated into Punjabi, Hindi, Italian, Persian, Hebrew, Spanish, and Mandarin, French and Malay languages. He was editor of Indus Chronicle and Calcutta Canvas. Contributed to various anthologies published in India and abroad. He worked as a TV script writer in Kolkata Doordarshan and was an independent programme producer. He is a Bi-lingual poet, very passionate about poetry and painting