Poems by Somolekha Sur
Minerva
The kite was flying
A cosmogyral conspiracy
The kite can be anything
The alliances are parasitic,
Not symbiotic
The Minerva
Elocution day… crowd!
She was vocal, irrelevant
The kite was flying, torn but
Freedom is everything
The glory, the Minerva
Long live!
Staying Awake
I am trying my best to stay conscious,
to not let the blur of hours undo me—
to feel the weight of breath,
the tug of thought,
the moment before it slips unnamed.
I am trying to stay relevant,
to speak in tongues the world still listens to,
to shape my silence into something seen,
to not become background noise
in a room filled with brighter static.
I am trying not to lose
the sense of now—
the sharp edge of it,
the way it cuts through memory and maybe.
I chase it like wind,
but it flickers, evasive,
always one beat ahead of belief.
I am trying to appear
in the most acceptable way,
smoothed at the corners,
palatable and known,
though my edges long to crack,
to bloom into something
too true to tame.
Where language dissolves
There is a place in me
where language dissolves—
where you are not spoken,
but known.
You move through the hush
between heartbeats,
a flicker of gold
in the dark of my breath.
No eye can touch this—
the bloom, the pulse,
the endless falling
into you.
Dilemma
Where eagle’s dare
Catch the running water
The gloves of the stolen childhood
Debris.
Mutilations. Ashes. Temperament.
Accuse whom for the right crop?
Ashes. Ashes. Ashes.
Sarcasm.
Mothers, brothers join hands
Society in serious dilemma
Whereabouts are investigated
Monochrome.
Fullstops are common causes
The band of reds and yellows
Defying the moralistic,
Future.
About the poet
Somolekha is a well-known Kolkata based poet and author. Her books, Little Tales from La La Land, Conundrum, Zilch, Distant Brontide, Oud & Amber and Yellow Goggles were her efforts to introduce the intense visions in her mindscape to the world. She currently teaches in the Bhawanipur College and is the COO of Azure ad agency. She writes in both Bengali and English with equal élan. Her English poems are regularly published in national and international magazines (online and offline) like Teesta Review, Scorpion, Expression, Prosopisia, The Kolkata Arts, Lit Review (Texas, USA), international online journals like Writers Cafe etc.
