Haiku
The pond reflected
your thoughts everywhere about
a frog croaked after ages.
2. There on your rough bark
a lover wrote his fine name
before his love died.
3. It was a nude dance
the dewdrops shone in timbre
grass-blades spoke of tears.
Navamalati Neog Chakraborty
Navamalati Neog Chakraborty has served as a professor of English in Colleges at Kohima, Dimapur and Guwahati. She served as a guest professor at Calcutta University in the Comparative Literature Department. She has translated works of the stalwarts of Assamese Literature – biographies, dramas and novels. She has several anthologies to her name- in English and in Assamese. Navamalati Neog Chakraborty is a bilingual poet, translator, critic and short story writer.