Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan Poems

I did not do it - it just happened one night
we could have slept easily in separate rooms
but she said a single room could be cheaper
she also felt lonely and needed someone near
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Eight-thirty! .... still no sign of the bus -
The driver must be sipping his coffee
By some roadside dhaba, why should he care
If the passengers suffer? …… if I suffer?
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Death does not come when you call him
However much you call, he never comes:
He comes only at his appointed hour -
Playing hide and seek, biding his time
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Just five years ago
she won't let me come near her,
let alone a kiss -
her lips
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I am in love with two women:
one is dark, the other's white
one is married, the other unmarried -
one is one of my childhood friends,
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full bare breasts clasped
in a tight embrace, lips
glued to the jutting nipple
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In five minutes flat, a Khap can do
what a Supreme Court cannot in decades:
justice is delivered in a lightning flash
on the spot, by five buzurg wise men
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That hushed silence, that beating of the heart,
biting of the nails, and that racing of the blood
excitement in the stands, tension in the pavilion,
frenzied munching of popcorns in the galleries -
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the house where she lived as a little girl
has become a star tourist attraction now.

Taxi drivers slow down, routinely
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Dance of Shiva

Before the cosmic dance, there was the cosmic song
Before the cosmic song, there was the Silence
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