ASOKE KUMAR MITRA

ASOKE  KUMAR  MITRA

WINTER  NIGHTS

Winter nights are without dreams

The night offered roses distilled from your blood

Cold wind, rain and storm under my skin

You want to comeback through my veins

Your passion strained my heart

You play the anthem of salvation

In my heart beats where silences build

Unspoken gently with care moved inside

My dream anchored in your eyes

Slowly winter sets in, passionately wipe the shadow

Lilac blooms in broken temptations, deserted in tears

You wake up and sinking into despair...

(C) ASOKE  KUMAR  MITRA,2018,Kolkata ,India

YOU SAID

Define your heart to me, you said

Someone else’s existence, against your own

A strange request, but I answered anyway

Perhaps you want to get to the bottom of me

Within your eyes lilac dance

No words from your golden tongue

A footprint of clay god and flying broken leaf

Within your eyes a raging sea...

A mad dragonfly in a wilderness

Your question, symphonies of the silence

Memories arrive as an epitaph

Close your eyes, feel the silence beneath the  skin

Your voice running into the wind

(C)ASOKE  KUMAR  MITRA,2018,Kolkata,India

FEW MOMENTS AGO

You   were singing

A song of past days

Which   are  no  more

Wished to touch your lips

Wished to drink the song

In my smiling distant nights

You stole with your glances

My loneliness

Memories  of  past  as  butterflies

You vanished with the heart beat

With the touch of my palm

Salty taste of tongue

Now the silence of centuries

Today’s song will be in memories

(C)

ASOKE  KUMAR  MITRA

2018,Kolkata, India

ASOKE KUMAR MITRA: Born 1950, from Kolkata, India, studied at Hindu school and St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He is a retired journalist and was editor of “CALCUTTA CANVAS” and “INDUS CHRONICLE”. He is a bilingual poet. He has contributed to various anthologies published in India and abroad. His poems are translated, into Hindi, Punjabi, Italian. French German, Polish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew Malay, Mandarin, Romanian Spanish, Azerbaijani. “SAVAGE WIND” is his poetry book, published form Kolkata, India, a bilingual edition , translated into Spanish. Poetry, photography, paintings are his passions.