The Urban Cantata: A Sonnet?
With futile fatigues and montage hopeless,
Behind the Radhachura, the weary sun sets.
Quite ritualistically the mechanical Kolkata bathes
In the hues of crimson chaos,
Portending deafening buzz of nocturnal silence,
The city gushes out yellowish cascades
Of jaundiced bile, betraying spontaneous bitterness-
As writhe in agonies cacophonous alleys
Reverberating rote moans of the body-mongers-
The pale, yellow moon submissively stares
At Tilottama’s garish trifalas and neons,
On prowl loom the stray canines
Around the shanties and under flyovers
To predate on probably virgin preys.
Dr. Oindrila Bhattacharya
Dr. Oindrila Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor at Brainware University, Department of English and Literary Studies. She has done her M.A. and M.Phil in English from University of Calcutta. She has got her Ph.D degree in English from Vidyasagar University. Besides writing research papers, she is passionate about creative writing. She is a bilingual writer and many of her works have been published.