Two Poems by Aneek Chatterjee
By Aneek Chatterjee
Game
The metal disc, shining & heavy
goes up, up in the air;
players below scuffle
to get it …
all in dark.
It may hit a player,
(s)he may be injured,
but never within.
This is the rule of the game.
Spectators sit in the dark, here
The playing field is dark.
Positions alter now and then
A spectator changes
into a player any time,
and vice versa
Everybody is comfortable in dark,
everybody seems happy
A bleeding player retreats
A happy spectator takes his place
But the game continues
through the night.
Surviving players will resume
the game next evening,
only in the dark
Everybody is happy,
everybody is game with
the shining disc here …
in dark, cold evenings
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Bodyless Wanderer
The aroma is attractive, draws
everyone close, like a magnet
hooks ordinary
iron pieces.
Power is important
in (vocabulary of) politics,
& society too.
How powerful is powerful
& how powerless is powerless,
no discourse on politics or society
could ever decipher.
It’s a bodyless wanderer which
seeks shelter in the entity
of a person
or group, like a mystic spirit.
It rewards our ego, id, lust
& desire
It nurtures us healthy,
for the ultimate fodder
Because the bodyless wanderer
finally crushes the beholder,
after crushing everything
for him, her
Bio:
Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has been published in reputed literary magazines and poetry anthologies across the globe. He authored two poetry collections named Seaside Myopia and Unborn Poems and Yellow Prison (Cyberwit.net). Chatterjee has a Ph.D. in International Relations and has been teaching in leading Indian universities.
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One Response to “Two Poems by Aneek Chatterjee”
Wow. Really powerful writing.