Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
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Some Part of My Quest-A Prose Poem
by
Ashok Niyogi

These episodes come back to haunt the initiator along with initiated.
Multitudes that are hungry
for promises of sundry buxom angels and everlasting spring.

In return, for oceans of blood.

There is, the passing of electricity, from body to body, from eye to eye,
from the one to many.
Sometimes there is pain, then denial and finally acceptance.
And inevitably, there is blinding light;
why not total darkness?

Always, it is extra real.

My journey has not been extra-terrestrial.
I started with nothing else but inherited and acquired sin. And was
looking for total delight, now.

I had no axe to grind.

The trick, as always, is to travel inside
and, to let the garbage be. No guilt,
no nostalgia, no pity.
No greed for an esoteric afterlife, no purgatory.
No shining path to tread, no theorems.
To shed skin, outdated sin and let the garbage be. And not to
acquire furthermore.

They call it going to the forest with the wind in the tree.

And nowadays, after cleaning my teeth,
as I brush my hair, I think of heaven,
and know I am almost there.

Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Ashok Niyogi
Ashok Niyogi
USA
Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta. He made a career as an International Trader and has lived and worked in the Soviet Union, Europe and South East Asia in the ‘80s and ‘90s. At 52, he has been retired for some years and has been cashew farming, writing and traveling. He divides his time between California, Delhi and the Indian Himalayas.  He has published a book of poems, TENTATIVELY,[iUniverse, Lincoln, NE – 1995] and has been extensively published in magazines in the USA, UK,Australia and Canada.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)