Peace Is Not Elusive
Peace is not elusive
It waits quietly beneath the noise.
It waits in the pauses we overlook,
In the small unclaimed corners of each day.
It lives in the courage to listen
more than the desire to win..
It rests in the acceptance
that not everything needs resolution..
Peace sits quietly beside us
when we allow softness to outgrow fear
In forgiveness before it is asked.
PEACE stands beside us every day,
We simply need to choose it.
The Essence of Happiness
I watched them transfixed
with adoration filled eyes
the twosome seemed so wholesome
the man and his wife !
they adhered genuinely to the adage " work is worship"
inexorable had been their pursuit
I slyly admit they were but no altruist!
the toil in their bodies reflected in no low measure
they were tirelessly at it till the resilient ones
could no more take the pressure !
while the sinewy virile man's body carved in black stone
gleamed in his lustrous sweat pearls
his coy bride's innocuousness was as fresh and holy
as dewdrops falling on the carpet of grass!
A pertinent question kept endlessly haunting my mind
does money, power, lofty dreams and desire
on this Earth our relations bind?
Kaberi Chattopadhyay
Kaberi Chattopadhyay is the author of four books: Peeping Through My Window (2022), The Twilight Bells (2022), her debut poetry collection, The Bindupara Tales & The Four-Lettered Word “Love” (2022), a collection of short stories Apparitions from the Other World (2023). Kaberi’s autobiography has been translated into multiple languages, including Telugu, Bengali, and Hindi, with plans for future translations into Tamil, Oriya, Assamese, and Urdu. Peeping Through My Window has been considered for the “Sarath Sahiti Kala Sravanti” Literary Award in memory of literary scholar Sabbani Laxminarayana’s parents in Karimnagar, Telengana. Her poems have been published in International magazines and journals too.