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  • Just this one : Sankha Ghosh
    translated from Bengali to English by Bhismadev Chakrabarti





    All the rest are poems of death, just this one is of life
    All the rest are poems of my own, just this one is yours
    All the rest are poems that are stopped, hesitant – remnants of ambition frozen on the lips
           flooded monsoon streets with open manholes spewing sewage
           wounded bleeding bodies left behind by tires after tires and
           a bridge collapsing
    All the rest are poems about cities, just this one is about the country.

    All the rest are poems of death, just this one is of life
    All the rest are poems of my own, just this one is yours
    This one is of the wild sea, of all the pains that were yet to be shared
           of the one who walked into the waves one spring, without a reason
           of laughing people bending double, letting the wind seep in with the dust
           of leaves flying away in thousands, speaking of impending storms
    All the rest are poems of the Ganga, just this one is about the Yamuna.

    Published October, 2011



    The original poem [Ganga-Yamuna (গঙ্গা-যমুনা)] appeared in the collection of poems under the title Murkho boRo, samajik noy(মূর্খ বড়ো, সামাজিক ্নয়), in 1974. The poems in this collection were written during 1972-73.



    অলংকরণ (Artwork) : Ananya Das
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