PERCEPTION

Within me is your reflection entrenched,

Nobody would be proficient to eliminate

The roots of affection, it goes secretly –

Across the flowering valley, river, ocean

Sky is not the limit, nameless horizons

Would you like to follow the blazing path?

Come along me, to know how much I love

You, the life is short, profundity infinite,

From surface it looks apparent beautiful

In the molecule of emotion, definition has

Twist by twist a sequence of cosmos,

Clouds are stairs, in each steps are several

Genesis, how to reach on that zenith, to

Trace the source of flow, but its flows in

Natural way, which we together feel in

Love, the soul repulses negative aspects

As body shelters inside the body of adored,

Reciprocal equation of life becomes

Never-ending bond, devotion goes up and

Up converts to supreme divinity, chasm

Reduce further to create closeness in

A way that mind starts work jointly, later

Breathe converts the life to immortality

Love achieves in this level to real zest

Touching to amazing point in life,

Imagination of paradise slowly becomes

Reality, than physical pleasure replaced

By spirituality to get truth of birth and death

--- SHANTANU SANYAL  

DESERT MOON

Back of the sand dune moon emerged

By scattering miraculous beauty

Bedouins have been lit fire, the Semitic

Song of sweet rhythm is in the wind

Caravan of celestial luminaries settled

Beneath the enormous tent of blues

Tonight I am waiting for you near the

Oasis, in the wilderness, spiny shrub had

Composed dreams in its stems, fire flies

Have left over the veil, liberated the gloom

Emotions are climbing on desert plateau

By serpentine crawl, to touch the passion

Let me to love you in marvelous way

I know, ethics of land faded your beauty

Invisible shackle of leg obstructs the path

Miserable eyes want sweet touch of -

Dreams, little glittering for survival,

You break the rules tonight, bluff the

Watching eyes, camouflage your beauty

Borrow the glow from full moon, mesmerize

The world, I’m sure, you would be succeed

My belief says you will come to meet me

Once, let the fake faces of doctrines

To die, tonight I am prepared to go through

Any penalty, in love everything is acceptable

Whiplashes are nothing, just throw the

Face cover, let dewdrops to scatter on your

Scalded skin, say good bye to golden cage

Sweet heart exchange your life tonight

By night bird before the moon to be dissolved,

Its life into the oasis lake forever –

--- SHANTANU SANYAL 

WET SUNDAY

Drenched Sunday, yes that was amazing

Monsoon night, in the heavy rain, our first

Meeting instant, treasured turning point

Waiting beneath the Gulmohar* tree,

Deserted street, near the public park, in

First look we had fallen in love, strangeness

Busted very soon while rain was continued,

Walked together, shelter of your ragged

Umbrella could not save the inner flare!

We felt unseen attraction, you said be stay

Near, otherwise sneezing to be attack,

I laughed, found delicate hand pulling my

Shoulder arm that nearness changed -

Completely life, I could not sleep on that

Night, I moved on the edges of a strange

Circle bejeweled with crystalline conic beauty!

In the next twilight, sky was clear, the

Promise honored by your beautiful entrée

In my unoccupied life, in the far away, blue

Mountain inhabitant, the streetlight were

Looking as a diamond necklace is forgot by

Galaxy before reaching to sky, day by day

Shrinkage of hesitant brought our souls, heart

Body, mind, nearer so nearer to identical

Breathe, an homogenous addiction settled

On the surface of love, numerous monsoon

Night passed, many spring twilight filled

Colors in our life, several summer days bring

The agitation, I surprise, think often,

What is that hidden source of flow in your

Eyes, never goes to dry, this everlasting love

Never permit me to love again, to someone.

-- SHANTANU SANYAL 

* Gulmohar tree - an Indian tree having beautiful flowers with lacy leaves, called fire of forest too.