Long Assamese Poems

"you are more than I deserve. It's a love I never dreamed I'd find. Happinesd like this is worth dying for..."
- Yasunari Kawabata-

Looking down, while flying midway between sky and earth,
I saw a dog on...

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   Your looks to carry your first impression:
   Your dresses ! Onlookers to appreciate.
   It is said ‘ Choose food on own decision,
   but select dresses on...

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Love means a wild whistle
A soft breeze through the window
Creating ruffles in the mind

Love means patter patter rains
Echoes of spring, dance of rongali

Love means the sunshine of aahar
Dreams of painting green on a brown scrape

Love...

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Mekhela chador

I was too hurry and overwhelmed 
To embrace the attire
"mur maa rr mekhela chador" ( - "my mater's Indigenous Traditional Assamese Dress")...

The days in kindergarten,
I cherish the attire, in her wardrobe enhanced and ironed...

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The conch and temple bells ring
The offerings lay out with fragrances and flowers
Unknowingly, you and I 
Are drawn towards each other
You hum a tune
While I listen
Slowly the sky transforms from azure to darkness
The clouds pour...

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Rongali bihu

Rong cascading down
the days around April fifteenth
jotted over the almanac
(Rong bihu or Rongali bihu, the Assamese gala)
luring New Year for the Assamese peeps and their culture 

Rong gleaned from Vishuvam - the Sanskrit word
Rong...

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It's the beginning 

From here the road 
Takes a bend 
Like the horse-shoe 
Towards west 

From here the stretch 
Of bare meadows 
On both sides of the path 
The tufts flying hither-thither 
Shadows from the...

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Just one cup in the morning; no added flavor
Ceylon tea or Assamese is my preference
Each drip and each sip I so favor and savor
Betwixt too light and too strong. This makes difference

Its red-black-orange mixture I...

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Khar!
or
An alkaline extract!
my mouth drools 
o! momma
everytime I think of the dish
whether it is the beloved 
amitar khar (i know as papaya khar),
tiyohor khar (i know as cucumber khar),
khar dal (i know as khar with lentils),
not to quit
sometimes...

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Met her first 
Where 
The meadow stopped 
Behind the mountains 
Benched on the buffalo's back 
A cowherd 
Played a riverine tune 
Where 
The bow-shaped river 
Flowed north 
The white yachts 
Were sailing east 
Like the...

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The evenings nowadays have become gloomy 
Across the bridge, a bright patch of light 
Disappears behind a curtain of mist

Fields lie fallow
After a day of festivities
And roads wind their way
With desolate minds

Not a soul to...

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Let the cold be more intense
The chill passing through every vein
Till blood congeals

Let the chill make its home 
In every home
And the city sleeps
In shivering cold

You must now be lying in the bosom of your...

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