THE CHARM OF DERELICTION 

derelict foams of seashore hides

oyster's untouched beauty, shells 

broken corals, twigs of weeds, for

discoveries, life needs inclination,

in this junction of earth and ocean, 

 heart floats to touch the adoration,

the sinking sun often leaves the -

some touch of innocent dreams on

the steady aquatic surface, night 

decorates the waves with moonlit 

magic,silence of shoreline creates

romance in the dried moment of -

life, unknowingly you hold hand, I

accept this submission by depth

of internal heart, as lifting beautiful

mosaic dreams from the wet sand!

the reflection of tiny rays of shells - 

filling constantly the passionate feels,

alone an unknown boat plunging in

its way, on the little turmoil waves,

restless pulsation searches, the point

to throw the anchor,near the edges  

of your big oval shaped eyes, life

doesn't want to separate the persona 

from your cryptic threads of trap, 

something unexplained sentiments 

brings me in your proximity with a 

distinct essence of scattering pearls!

-- SHANTANU SANYAL 

UNTITLED
the fatal venom of hatred again

spilled on the road, fangs didn't

recognize ours or aliens, blood
hadn't philosophy of prejudice, it
flown on the street, walk as you
wish on the surface of pain, tear
drops, screams, bleeding hearts,
may be one day gate of heaven
to be permit you for entry, write
on the pious shrine the names of
dead innocent souls for blessing,
-- SHANTANU SANYAL

THE OWN CREATION

The salinity of life concentrated on only

self-created miseries, I forgot to smile!

a desire to get more than imagination

made me musk deer, ran after dreams

though happiness was in my nucleus,

do not ask again for the calculation of life

all the equations cheated so brilliantly,

entire the world surrounded the persona,

own shrinkage didn't share the emotion,

it's my image, impounded many times,

complaining regarding the isolation was

so easy, mind opted acting to win them all

people, the self-polarized method pushed

me in the corner of gloominess, here my

the soul has no alternative step, except the

compromise with the condition, actually

the heart doesn't accept the defeat, the mind

has a mission to win the planet, this passion

of unlimited reason brings me often near

to the mysterious thing, this wandering habit

makes life more twisted, coiled, self

centered, simple easier path was before

the vision, I had weaved the complicated

net, in four alphabets that while the -

extraction was hidden, I ignored the truth,

I forgot to love you with the depth of dedication,

--- SHANTANU SANYAL

THE TRAVELERS
perhaps they didn't wait for me

before the dawn, left the inn
to get the first hour train,

it's happened in the life

 several  times, the needle of
clock follows only the rules of flow,
the emotions had the wings
of butterflies, weak, glassy, feeble
from the eyes to heart was
a long distance, tried to reach the
tip of adoration, though didn't
know the consequences of  love,
on the footprints, somebody
had written the meaning of pyre
deciphering the sentiments wasn't
the child's play, the life twisted
in its circle, single meaning too, I
couldn't understand, aphorism of
tear drops had short life, broken
from the eye edges, scattered
soundlessly on the floor, later sky
has decorated the space with the
cipher-code of galaxy, empty platform
of station explained beautifully
about the existence of new dream ---
--- SHANTANU SANYAL  

IT'S SO EARLIER
Precluding steps questioned often
touching to your persona, is it the
ultimate destination in life, I wouldn't
desire to see the death of dream,
from your subtle eyes, a prismatic
ray flows in way that I can see path in
the dense gloominess too, all the
masculinity here submits to adoration,
the definition of love, I do not wish to

change for an evanescent pleasure,
the bridge of emotions are so delicate
willingly too, I can't cross the stream,
the aquatic level is yet knee deep -
not so difficult to reach another edge,
let the clouds to be condensed on
blues, movement is needed to settle
down, dry monsoon has not acquired
the intensity of downpour, whenever the
flow of love would reach to the risque
point, I would be there stretching  the
arms, chest is towards the insulation
process, let torrential rain embrace the
desert of centurion thirst, do not break
the unseen boundary in premature way,
just minerals are now, in the furnace,
the purity needs the burning blue flames!
-- SHANTANU SANYAL

SELF IDENTITY

breakages of emotions, the antique 

glassy sentiments, it has had to break

one day, now it slipped from the hands

scattered on the floor, and broken, so 

what, life desires to collect all pieces 

one by one, reconstructing the dream 

has its own glamor, heart doesn't want

to  leave the crystal of eyes, it sparkles 

in the darkness of isolation, time's flow

had its different precedence, might be 

I tried to move toward the antipodes -

way, this imperil task taught to know the

veracity of life, compact, compromise 

didn't make me weak, I repaired the 

boat kept  voyage continues, you had 

no time to follow the waves, thanks for 

that, I have no option, barring to float, let 

the destination love me again with full of

passion, beautiful meaning to get in the 

misty trails that you provided the lost 

image, today I knew real self-identity!

--- SHANTANU SANYAL

THE CAUSE OF SMILE

the painful echoes vibrating

from the valleys of 

emotions, the life looks 

redundant,where again the 

mirror is broken, my 

image is scattered on the 

floor,though twilight has 

mosaic beauty,

why wounded smoke raising 

from the lamps,unknown 

face, sitting isolated, 

I don't know the reason behind 

the gloomy faces,who are 

those strange shadows,   

eagerly looking towards the sky 

its rain s prophesy, or a messianic

thought preparing for sacrifice,

gazing the glassy cross,

someone hiding, pasted the 

advertisement of season,

life almost passed

in waiting of all wellness's

 spring, didn't see anybody smiling,       

continuous a comprehensive 

silence dominated the life,

an emptiness of mausoleum,

people had have said, somewhere 

here is existed the stair of heaven,

Hadn't see you in the mist 

smokes of pain  were raising 

echoes were breaking, scattering

on the trail some pieces of 

mirror were laying carelessly,

lamps breathed at last, 

life waited till the break of day

a cause to smile, everybody could 

share a beautiful short life.

-- SHANTANU SANYAL     

ARE YOU WAITING ---

are you the far away shore of ocean,

sinking emotions desire to touch the

comprehensiveness, sand castles of 

adoration calls me as reverberation -

continuously say torrential raining is 

going on, the land of generous heart,

do not put off the earthen lamps of 

door, moon did not get the freedom,

clouds are thick, dense, gloominess

scattered from one horizon to other, 

did you write the poetry on the froth of

beach, waves are fickle to get a new 

life, it's heard that in evening prayer 

all beautiful hearts sing the song of 

universal peace, birds warble listening 

them, on that ruined temple do not 

forget to wait for me, some incomplete

offerings are remained on my empty 

hands, heart is passionate to join on 

that procession of truth, beauty, 

equality, the land of great soul calls me 

again and again to lit dead perception, 

-- SHANTANU SANYAL 

 

THE ETERNAL AFFECTION

In that elusive consent, amazing

Pleasure had veiled, as in the nub

Of a full-grown bloom, often dew

Nectar, venom, snare co existed –

Restive pollens of heart desired to

Fly through the placid wind, hence

The night all of a sudden became

Decade long, blinking of eyelashes

Crippled, entire persona turned to

An enigma of life, lethal smile had

The wide ranging effects, in the

Distance moonlit blazed the valley,

Nocturnal silence prevailed away

Far away, clouds of smoke I do not

Know exactly, a feeling of mist, may

Be nomadic emotion were flying -

Above the tranquil beautiful lake, in

Magical touch of eyes created a

Aurora, the waves of passion didn’t

Find out the magnetic poles, life

Had unexpected occurrence on

Those moments, a pebble has

Thrown, the multiple waves made

The circles of sensation, a few get the

Edge, some sank instantly in the core!

A feeling to preserve somebody’s

Love for everlasting way is not so

Simple, prolong burning of desert

Carries some droplets of rain, while

Numerous arid, discarded planets have

A few chances to absorb the moisture,

• SHANTANU SANYAL

THE PROGNOSIS

in the pervasive blur of dusty twilight
a tiny earthen lamp, in the ruined
glebe of archaic shrine, in unknown
way, blinks with appetency of new
moon light, in search of prognosis!
do not close the aperture, skylight
tonight moon has been promised to
donate milky rays dipped into the -
redolence of the secret devoutness,
beneath the shadow of your eyes,
life rests for some moment to get the
beauty of truth, meaning to survival
in multifarious way to assimilate all
the miseries, pains, negativeness, in
the adamant reality of life,an affiance
that never detach from the heart,
someone is standing unnoticed in the

spinney bush, stretching generous

 arms, eager to wipe out the wet eyes,
your love has manifold shapes, the
emanation is difficult search, how do
you reach near me its subtle, but
I feel, touch accepted your beautiful
existence in my breathing, in pulsation,
- SHANTANU SANYAL