THE MEANING OF LIFE

Perhaps, life needs your presence

In every twist of sentiment, lacking

Makes the persona as a vacant vial,

Containing few drops of condensed

Breathing, habitual to feel you, love

Creates an innovative sense in life,

Blank dream touches to puberty, in

That seized moment, grows poetry!

Have had no control on my heart, I

Often search your reflection in the

Apparent splendor of nature, in the

Soaked roses, dew drop necklace of

Spider web, in the lean thrived twigs,

On the gazing silence of deer’s eye,

Sound of falling pale leaves inspires,

Found a charismatic field around me,

Life waits for you in the downy gloom

Near the dreamy rivulet, under the

Aged mahogany tree, moonlit shade,

The hushed night, unfolded shiny

Sky, dotted thin ivory clouds, slowly

Moving the milky, fourteenth night -

Moon, heart desires to keep the face

On your soft palms, this beautiful

Perception brings me near you, a

Sweet process of adoration grows

Day by day, love you in rampant way!

• SHANTANU SANYAL 

LOVE ON THAT WAY

Yes I’m intransigent man, don’t

Know the art of compromise, the

Life challenges in every step, let

Obstacles break the expedition,

The compulsive language of your

Eyes, creates the enchantment of

Buried treasure unexplored, here

Heart wishes to go through the

Haunted curse, in your love its

Whispered that stones to be adapt

As a crystal of rare beauty, touch

Me in a way that my influences

Would be the philosophers stone,

Hymn of success has to be surface

Equestrians of intense passion

Launched towards the crusades,

Riverbed, thorny path, rift vales, the

Frozen fiord, let the nature has

Deal with me, I’m prepared to face,

The unwanted all the happenings,

Spirited steps do not be stagnate, on

The path of fortitude, courage -

I believe, storm has to move to some

New route, here resides our planet

Of love, a binding for life long

Commitments, a tough wall of trust,

Nobody could smash it’s the relation

Of soul-to-soul, a planet existed

Internal the planet, infinite glow of

Undying love flows day and night.

• SHANTANU SANYAL

THE DEFUSING NIGHT

Thunderous sky, layers and layers

Of rain clouds deposited in lower

Ambiance, the darkness emerged

Before the twilight, stimulated the

The sluggish excitement, though I

Had no preplanned desire to cross

The limit of your consent, hearth

Was lit, as the temperature gone

Down, in the lower vale it was

Raining, in a blink it reached over

The tiled roof of bygone era, the

Passionate wet evening looked as

Bottomless night concealing lot

Of beauties, graph of hesitation

Didn’t sustained longer on the top

Of ethical lines, it crashed, dropped

Speedily down amid the warmth of

Breathings, tried to touch the shore

Stone but waves of stormy ocean

Didn’t spare time, on that flimsy

Surface the magnetic needle failed

We hadn’t more choice to accept

Each other’s life, that sinking jointly

Brought back the theory of rebirth,

The shared adoption of pleasure had

The artistic glamour, soaked into

The heavy rain, wet fragrance of love

Filled the vacuumed portion of life,

The hearth fire had the ashes of

Sandal wood or something else, the

Entire night had sweet scented by

The strange perception, as realism

Our souls met tonight in infinite way!

• SHANTANU SANYAL