Srijani Dutta

Injured Dreams

Contemporary Literary Review India

Dreams and Fragmentation

 

Dreams -

That I store in my mind

Is fleeting as thin air

Dwindling like flame,

Still, the dream makes me

Dream all through the way of

Breathing and living.

Fractured in places

Bruised and tied with bands,

Pus and blood-

All paint the smell

Of nausea and dislike,

Still, the dream, being so big and not-so-big

Makes me dream the dream

More than the numbers of wounds

That I have received in the midway.

Dreams,

Floating like the clouds of autumn

Dreams,

Taking the structure of autumnal Goddess

Dreams,

Make me dream

In my sleep

In my breathing

That I hold as essential

In the body of my soul.

Dreams, you are not baffled

Dreams, you are the breath of my self

My current state of materiality

And you lose your watery essence.

The Graduates

Contemporary Literary Review India

The Frowning moustache

 

Joyful, joyless souls,

Sitting on the benches

Give an ear to the words

Or dialogues written by an old philosopher

His moustache does not matter

As much as his tongue

From where some messy, some organized

Letters come out

And make the world a less obscure

Less foggy space,

Like the eye places itself on the lens

To speculate the spectacle;

These souls

Hop from one stair to another

Replenishing their Tabula rasa

With vowels and sound

To meet the end of a year

And embrace the new start

By wearing the ropes of grades

And get defined as graduates.

Believer

Contemporary Literary Review India

The Belief

 

Belief is like a drop of tear

That runs down your cheek

And leaves its mark

On your face,

Just the way you forget to wipe off

Yesterday’s dream;

Rains shower on it

And you start seeing

A new dawn.

 

Belief is like a leaf,

It grows, falls and crosses

The lands

Floating and sailing through air;

It takes the shape

Of a cage -

What I call a heart.

Life

Contemporary Literary Review India

Life

 

The whole misfortune pours over me

As if I am a glass

My only task is to hold

And let the life happen.

 

It takes many people to form a crowd

So does the life

Everyone’s life

Mostly-

Takes the disguise of the novel

To say the little, unnecessary things.

Fortunate are the ones who say the things

Of their lives

In little words

Through poetry.

If we count the pages of the book

As each passing day of life

Hours will be summarised in the sorrowful paragraphs

The seconds will be painted

Through silence and silhouettes.

Alas! The trajectories of life-

Bending like river

Whistling like wind

Sometimes a brat, sometimes a kind one-

Alas!

Like a musician,

Life sings the melodies of spring.

 

 

About the author: Srijani Dutta has completed her Post Graduation in English literature from Visva Bharati University. She loves reading books and expressing herself through colours, words, and images. She writes poetry and has published her poems/writings in the journals like Setu, Parcham, Contemporary Literary Review India, Story Mirror, EKL review journal, Plato’s cave online journal, The Antonym etc. Her paintings have been published in Borderless journal, Creative chromosomes, Rappahannock review, Fourth river journal.

 

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