Bhaskar Chakraborty

Aug 20, 2020 | Poetry | 0 comments

Translated from the Bengali by Nilanjan Chattopadhyay

At the Restaurant

Sitting close to an ardent – Philologist
Presently afternoon wears away, slowly.
Remembering the embrace-
Remembering a tranquil smiling face.
Blood polluted with poison, my love
Presently life wears away, slowly.

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Epitaph

Oh trees leaves of trees
So many silent stars in the sky
Vast endless sky vast eternity
All living beings
oh water river’s water listen to me
I lived here
My head was a butterfly
Traversing thousand light years by flight
Ghost of this city I was born here
Breathed my last, decomposed, in this very city.

About Author

Bhaskar Chakraborty

( 1945-2005 ) Truthful and magical, the poetry of Bhaskar Chakrabarty captivates the Bengali readers since the mid-1960. Chakraborty was born pre-independence in Kolkata,in Baranagar, the oldest and historic northern part of the city. A school teacher by profession, Chakraborty started his literary journey in the decade of 1960s and started writing modern Bengali poetry. He is remarkably an urban poet and created a language of his own which is full of marvelous imagery and charged with hope even when life became desperate for him