Triveni Journal

1927 | 11,233,916 words

Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....

Darkness

Krishna Bose

Irrevocably alert the surface stands
with indigos burnt hard
and thickness impinges in stone-faced lumps

Can this tar-fed carpet insulate
the fortress which houses mucky pythons?

Will the dark-eyed nuances tamper
the whisper of the sun-bathed minarets?

Shall ever the unmapped denseness
Spill over the gay-decked violets?

Will the puffs of nerve-wracked air
ever spare the eloquence of the sphere?

Echoes careen on the flow.

Yet nowhere, a mustard-keen viewer
tries solemnly to abduct
the opaque lapses of the stars.

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