Joydeep Sircar Poems

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1.
A Caution For Love Poetry

Born ignorant, as the hormones activate
the other love, huge as the universe,
we learn with all our senses each bright letter
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2.
Ganga Sagar

Prince of gamebirds and master of crooked flight, the snipe
the sea at dusk brought in as prisoner
looked at me with bright obsidian eyes
gently refused food and clumsy care
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3.
Post-Mortem

The mirror holds a countenance of grief
seamed with the lines you and the years incised.
It's over at last, I think, without relief.
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4.
Andha (1990 - 2001)

We who had loved you abandoned you at the end.
Sunk in our individual miseries,
a failing family betrayed a trust, lost that
one true enduring selfless love it had found:
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5.
Missing Presumed Dead

(For Rono and Arun, vanished beyond Madmaheshwar in the Garhwal Himalaya,1984)

Faint bells on a crystal wind.
A gentle pass.
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6.
Jelep La

Younghusband's ghost haunts Padamchen.
Tarmac runs where mule tracks went.
The road from Zuluk climbs in zags.
Wind whips Buddhist prayer-flags.
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7.
Reflections On A Romantic Potboiler

'I'm sorry, ' said the young and beautiful blonde.
'There's nothing more for me to live for now'.
The convenient pistol, poison, or large pond.
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8.
I, Claudius

Xenophon of Cos ministers to the lame
and earnest emperor. Seneca, exiled, vents
his stoic rage on the salt Corsican air.
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9.
Incident In Parbati Valley

Two marches back the whispers had begun
about a camper dead, mauled by a bear,
somewhere ahead. At Pandava Bridge at noon
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10.
Responsibility

The doctrine of personal responsibility
is easier to state
than to live up to.
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