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<Poetry by> Ipsita Borthakur

Kaustav Padmapati

Published in Souvenir of Assam-Colorado 2002Convention

Rock and Sea

There stood once a rock ...monumental still

Still and graven

And there was the constant sea

Now she softly lullabies, then makes a gentle touch at its

Feet to entouch the earth-n-heaven

But failing to make her rock feel.

She is the sea of love

And he is the rock!

Now she zings-n-sings then makes a gentle touch at its

Feet

Only to give it an untouchy heat.

The sea thirsts for the cardinal waters she left

Unquenched. And the rock?

Rockened yet stands monumental still still.

                          - Ipsita Borthakur

Polluted Civilization

  I set out for myself in search of peace

But is it  what is peace?
There I see crime, violence and ruthless atrocity

Life an ambiguity
There's no veracity

Everywhere I cast to see
  MURDER, RAPE AND CORPSES OF HUMAN BODY...

Everywhere I lend to hear
Screams of orphans, weeping of widows

And heartfelt yearnings

Is it any human civilization?
There's only  our lord's
Bellicosity

Nuclear wars thunder cold war

Shiver
We lost our viability.

So I set out for myself in search
of tranquility
But I am no perfection
What's my basic identity?
Only a nucleus in this polluted
Civilization.

- Kaustav Padmapati

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