Come Home To Her December Eyes.......

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls,
why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
- Harriet Beecher Stowe



















My sole whisper knows a flute
The flute;
Floods my inner gate,
None other than me to take,
Let me float mine silent whisper
to that music soul.

Past midnight two impatient eyes
Peered in prayer with longing skies ;
Gone those hour dark
Had none but me to talk;
Left my sleepless waking
to that music soul.

- Robindranath Thakur

(Transcreation
- Romit Choudhury)


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln

Subcity

This City
So dark
says the dust to high;
This City
So grim
muse the nasty sky

Yet warmth showers, .. a Cold Desert Jewel;
This City
our story
a home to dwell.

Thisis Done Here ??

Today morning while hurrying back home from the neighbourhood bank through the narrow and further narrower by lanes of Dhakuria, a signboard suddenly caught my attention. Glared into my eyeballs the following text, bold and beautiful:

THISIS TO DOCTORATES DONE HERE.

Wow! Thank heavens they missed the “P” up front, otherwise I would be rather disheartened that all this while an outfit (hopefully Al Quaida – then Dhakuria comes on CNN!) openly ran a biological warfare firm here, right in my “para”, injecting some innocent PhDing mousy type academics with the dreaded disease, and I doing nothing about it. More atrocity on the bard’s language followed:

DEAD PICTURES LAMINATED HERE (Animation’s living I presume!)
STD WITH CHEAP CALL (No thank you- I prefer rubber!)
SURFING FREE INTERNET- 8/- per hr (Dream it!)

This ain’t the end dude. The icing on the cake: “GET XEROX SCHOOL/COLLEGE CHILDREN”. Nice option for harried parents-anyway kids are so troublesome these days.

As you can well gather from the above text, the business is quite huge with multi channels ranging from framing, binding to PCO and Cyber café. Why such a joint then can’t get a decent enough signboard? The owners are surely not illiterate. I don’t know the answer. If you do, kindly inform me. The “DENJERS” of HIV (Highly Incorrect Vocabulary) are not limited to truck drivers you see!!