Morning Splendour
In
the faint light the red fruits
Bursting
with ripe seeds,
Noisy
sparrows feeding at daylight
A
tiny butterfly perches on the wet stone,
Autumn
sky spreading, clouds align,
Stroke
the air, leaves sailing somewhere,
Rose
still blooms in silence under the shade,
Morning
sinking in a light drizzle,
There
is a lot to notice, gazing across
Meadows
speckled golden with buttercups,
The
low land is washed by a panoply of greens
A
little bird singing its little heart out,
To
fill the broad valley with beautiful songs,
You
enjoy all this beauty in tranquillity.
@gopallahiri
Tidal Footprint
There
is silence, the rising sun spills in through
The
tidal pools that housed tiny worlds of crabs,
Everywhere
the fanning palms record the voice
of
the west wind, seabirds soaring up overhead,
Windward
stretch of the beach is showing a collage of
sand
grains, footprints and unnamed sea shells,
Lean
coconut palms holding up the kites
The
winding sandy path leaves an arch,
Now
comes the moments one after the another
And
the old words rising out of the rust-coloured corals,
A
spectrum of wonders, memories lay cemented
A
long journey on the shore line now resting on the stone.
@gopallahiri
Snapshots
daybreak
pigeons
surge into the roofs
in
their hundreds,
the
hazy morning
give
away
to
sunlight-infused noon,
remember
during
rainstorms my childhood
chasing
pigeons
down
the avenues,
down
past the branches, the leaves,
the
blossoming flowers,
the
butterfly sits
on
the edges of the window.
inhale
the solitude of nature.
for
days I was drawn to her stripes
to
her colour, to her beauty.
and
all this before soaking
in
the vermillion of the setting sun.
@gopallahiri
Gopal Lahiri
Gopal Lahiri was born and grew up in
Kolkata, India. He is a bilingual poet, writer, editor, critic and translator
and published in Bengali and English language. He has authored seven volumes of
poetry in Bengali and nine volumes in English and jointly edited one anthology
of poems in English and published one translation work. His poetry is also
published across various anthologies as well as in eminent journals of India
and abroad. He is the recipient of the Poet of the Year Award in Destiny Poets,
UK, 2016. He can be reached at glahiri@gmail.com