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Best Poems Written by Debasree Banerjee

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Song of the Phoenix

Trodden down and beaten out,
That is me for you and whole of the world.
While inside me I still shout,
"Wait to see my rage unfurled". 

Since long have I been messed and marred,
Raped, ravaged, killed and scavenged.
Undaunted still I have dared
To get all those wrongs avenged. 

Bearing flogs on bloodstained backs,
With burning tyres around the neck.
So many times those malignant knacks
Have left me shambling, a complete wreck.

Withered soul and parched hopes,
My modesty clad only in tatters.
Around dark corners my soul gropes 
To think that all this hardly matters. 

You want to know who I am,
And I shall tell you in good time.
I have been robbed from grave to pram,
For neither reason nor rhyme.

When wars were fought and lives were lost,
When men decided these were needs.
My heart was caught in unthawed frost
My being collapsed under those deeds.

Hiroshima could not finish me,
Nor could any bloody apartheid.
I shall stay and forever be
And rise forever from the dead.

Changing world and changing days,
Can only hurt me and hurt me more.
But these can never mend my ways,
For I shall rise in full galore.

The planet sways under your weight,
And nature collapses under your feet.
But I conspire to keep you straight,
And cajole you to a quiet retreat. 

Pained I am that you call yourselves human,
And yet carefully deign to forget me. 
Yet I shall redeem the bestial and inhuman,
For I am the phoenix called 'HUMANITY'.

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Immortality

One day you will be there no more,
Like mighty waves crashing on the shore.
For as unruly they froth and foam,
Each of them does find a home. 
To break their eternal unrest
And be one in trough and crest. 

Do they feel sad in the end?
No, for all I know my friend. 
What when the beings rest so bare?
You shall know, you shall be there.
The sun burns even when no one sees
After it has set behind the trees. 

What does end then when we die?
Is there a heaven up in the sky?
Or a hell in depths of earth, 
For children’s tales have no dearth
Of legends pointing these are there.
Yes, my friend, all shall be fair. 

We shed our bodies when we go,
When we’ve known what’s there to know.
When we’ve fulfilled our reason of birth
We do leave this lovely earth. 
But there’s no reason for sorrow
Because there’s a better tomorrow.




One in which there’s heaven and hell
Reflecting the things you did so well,
Or deeds that were not so fair
For every action that was there. 
For in our pleasure or our strife,
We’ve been paving this afterlife.

For death is just that silken screen
Which lets you enter where you had been
Before you visited this other side
Where you built up ego and pride
Life’s the journey and death the goal
That reminds you that you’re a soul. 

The moment you shall realize this,
All your pain and hurt shall ease.
No more shall you be afraid,
For you are eternal, alive or dead. 
You were there and you shall be,
Far from death you shall be free.

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And Life Said

Life, I’ve known you, known you because you are unfair;
Life, since I know you, I know you hardly care.
I’ve seen the heavens ripped and the ground give way,
The brilliance of the mushroom cloud desecrated the early day.

Have they written that the error shall not be repeated again?
Why then are children still starving and all that bloodshed in vain? 
Why then does one toddler have a nursery full of stars and light? 
And why does another scavenge dustbins for that single bite? 

Who said we have to defend the one who has made us all?
Why don’t you let us know, to feel and the past recall? 
Why have you let us forget our way to the eternal bliss?
Why did you give us all and take away then for us to miss? 

Listen my child, I love you but you too learn to love thyself.
Never look in the mirror and exclaim, “Oh! How I love myself”. 
For mirror are you in your mind, delve there and roll and pitch.
For then you’ll know all’s fair and believe that “Now we all are rich”.

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I Write

I write when I’m happy
I write when I’m sad
I write I’m angry
I write when I’m glad. 

I write about myself 
I write about you
I write for everyone 
And I write for a few  

I write of the future
I write of the past
I write of the beginning 
I write of the last

I write for I wish
I write for I want
I write for I can do
I write for I can’t

I write for I see
I write for I feel
I write for I hurt
I write for I heal

I write for I come
I write for I go
I write for it’s like that
I write for it isn’t so


I write if I like it
I write if I don’t
I write if I do that
I write if I won’t 

I write for it rains
I write for it is sun
I write for it is boring
I write for it is fun

I write for I’ve found it
I write for I’ve not
I write for I’ve lost it
I write for I’ve got

I write for the world’s good
I write for it is askew 
I write for the world’s old
I write for it is new

I’ll never stop writing
For its happiness unbound 
Just promise to miss me and my songs
When I’m no more around