Poetry and Art by Srijani Dutta
THE CITY
In the deep, deep, dark woods,
The youth is lost.
In the vast sky,
The red-yellowish moon is sublime;
Twisted --
Tangled --
Twice told tales
Of yellowish noon of last summer --
Lascivious rippling of
Mirth, dancing in the heart
Of passers-by --
Today’s dunce is tomorrow’s poet.
Philosophers smile at words of the prophets.
The city of dreamers,
The city of blue nights,
The city of fascism,
The city of silent cries,
The city of dew drops,
The city of lost souls,
Hunchbacks, bird catchers --
Are making this city their homes;
Insomniacs start listening to
Lunatic melodies
Of the unseen microcosms,
Buds bloom between
Two skyscrapers
Made of debris
And
Of chaos.
Srijani Dutta is a post graduate from Visva Bharati University. She has published in Parcham, Contemporary Literary Review India, Story Mirror, EKL review journal, Setu, Plato’s cave, The Antonym etc. Her paintings have been published in Borderless Journal, Creative chromosomes, Rappahannock review, Fourth River Journal.
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