Poems by Parthajit Chanda
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It opened with King’s Gambit, mixed with Catalan Opening. Your knights are unsafe, but vengeance doubled when mother is forced to see the crucifixion. And, in the name of Buddha Prabhakaran was assassinated (with his son Balchandran). Your bishops and pawns are doing ably. A deer has come to the stream, drop the sluice gate. This is the ethereal beauty, so near and so far. Your king is now a bit unstable; detruncate the one-eyed man’s eyeball. Now both the sockets are empty, at last equilibrium achieved. In the poll two dolphins are dancing with the red-balls; the balls are treaties objectified. Everything is momentary, Kharkiv is burning; hundreds of Lebanese were killed in air-strike. Civilians died. But they have transformed hospitals, schools and kindergarten to armory. You have to strike, moreover we have our own license to kill the pigs. 1985, The Invisible Tent An alligator-faced bus is running through the sal-forest. Fleeting light of dusk, mixed with flying dust… radio is beeping in chobera. As if, the spacecraft of aliens is hovering over the green planet. Who has disappeared in the jungles of Chhattisgarh? Whetted knife piercing the flesh in December. A long queue in front of the VDO show… A faint sub-human cry will loom large in the night-sky. The poor hamlet startled with awe. Further away a new circus-tent, timidly glowing with the hazak-light. The flickering doom-light, mixed with the growl of Tarzan venerates the clap, the whistle of the booze. The tent is waiting for its chained and caged Tarzan. The hamlet, with all its hundreds Tarzan, is slowly creeping towards the tent. The invisible tent. Translated by the poet |
Parthajit Chanda has authored several collections of poems. He has also a collection of short stories to his credit. His two collections of articles, based on art and socio-cultural issues have been well accepted by the readers and critics. He has taken part in various translation workshops and translated poems of Indian, American and European poets. He is a Postgraduate in English Literature and Language.
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