Peeping Through The Window

PEEPING THROGH THE WINDOW

                        I catch a glimpse of your glamorous glow
                        Glisten with rapture at a sidelong glance;
                        Sending a galvanic shock of quiver
                        Seduce me to a crest of trance.

                        Reminded of my begone time,
                        Vainly I retrace to rejuvenate my role;
                        Spread over to the present gallows of mine,
                        Caught me from behind up the pole.
                        Yoked as I’m’nd staked against pawn,
                        Recoiling within ’nd beseting with own,
                        Difficulties mounting yet heedless to them,
                        Convert to a prey in her capricious game.

                        All of a sudden a flash of light.
                        Illumine you as I watertight­
                        Peep’nd peer through the toilsome tower,
Shimmer you yonder off the air.

                        Oh dainty damsel enthroned in charms
                        Would your honour retrieve me of my past.
                        The servant of your beseeching your arms.
                        Cherish your juxtaposition as you’re must.

R.I.P.

Bhattacharya dead

JNANPEETH award winner and former Sahitya Akademi President Dr. Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya died on August 6 at Guwahati following a heart attack. He was 73.

Bhattacharyya, who received the award for his Assamese novel Mritunjoy, was the only Janapith winner from the northeast. The poet-novelist’s ideals were influenced by Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia.