Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Streets of Forgetfulness
by
Oindri Sengupta
The streets of forgetfulness are forever gray
Gray in different shades and forms.
When the twilight breaks and diffuses and
The sky gathers a twilightish mist,
My mind that plays with the uncountable encounters
Like the swaying tree-tops in the monsoon wind,
Gathers slowly all the solitary days' turbulent ends
In reason and in madness.
But in madness alone,
That the streets frame its colours
Around the mid-day sun,
In solitude and in despair.
The invisible light that it uses to halo itself around,
Encircles my mind
When I count the numberless seasons in my hands,
And wait for the approaching hour.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Oindri Sengupta
India
Oindri Sengupta, is a postgraduate in English from Calcutta University. She works extensively on poetry and is currently working on a fiction. She is also passionate about films, art and sculpture.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)