Mission to Syllables
Pages I adored for poetry began to disappear in front of my eyes. I searched them, but the lines were breaking and escaping one by one. All rhythms, carefully conceived, all syllables were mocking with audible sounds. Of late, poems I vowed to be eternal, were escaping from my sight and joining the vacuum. Of late, I embarked on a mission to the horizon in search of lost syllables, broken lines and absconding rhythms.
Shelter
Silence is the best word, the only ornament I can decorate you with. As we look at each other, eyes talk for hundred years more Bodies get restless … Thirsty I feel through the power of silence For heaven’s sake open your mouth only once Not for a speech; just to offer me a desolate shelter
Aneek Chatterjee
Aneek Chatterjee is from Kolkata. He has published more than five hundred poems in reputed literary magazines and anthologies. He authored four poetry collections and co-edited one. His poem ‘Tramlines and the Man’ has been adjudged as one of the best contemporary poems on Survival by “Pick Me Up Poetry”, a South Africa based poetry journal. Dr. Chatterjee was a Fulbright Visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, USA and a recipient of the prestigious ICCR Chair (Govt. of India) to teach in foreign universities.