If I had to go away to the land of spring by Moinak Dutta

If I had to go away to the land of spring

by Moinak Dutta

If I had to go away to the land of spring

I would choose a country road through green

Red and dusty and filled with aroma of flower

Which takes human mind to that bower

Where it tries not to make words halt and burst

But it makes them wrought by poesy just,

As it is kept for ages in our earth's sacred heart

As it is kept there from that day of our birth,

If I had to go away to the land of spring

I would choose a country road through green

Red and dusty and filled with serene bless

Which makes human mind to find and trace

How for years it had grown there with ease

How it had caught for years that calming breeze

And made expressive that inexpressible thought

That it always for its unfolding haply sought,

If I had to go away to the land of spring

I would take in me all that life brings

And turn them into poems that soothe 

As best as I by my mind possibly could

Create and leave them to take winged charm

Till they meet their rhymes to become

Songs which bear that bounty of earth 

As they are kept since the day of our birth.

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About Moinak…

Born on 5th September, 1977, he has been writing poems and stories from school days; completed postgraduation in English. Presently engaged as a teacher of English. Many of his poems and stories are published in national and international anthologies, magazines and also dailies including The Statesman (Kolkata edition), World Peace Poetry Anthology (United Nations), Setu, The Indian Periodical, Pangolin Review, Tuck Magazine,  Duane's Poetree, Tell Me Your Story (literary and travel magazine), The Literary Fairy Tales, Defiant Dreams (a collection of stories on women empowerment published by Readomania, New Delhi ), etc.

Moinak is a writer of reviews of books, among which notable are: The Upanisads (translated by Valerie J. Roebuck) which can be found at www.blogapenguinindiaclassic.blogspot.com and the review of The Ballad of Bapu (written by Santosh Bakaya). Written some essays and articles on education and literature and other topics which had been published in both e- books/e - journals (like Cafe Dissensus) and as printed books/papers (like Amalgamation of Social Media and Literature: Pros and Cons, published by Viswa Bharati Research Centre and Sahitya Anand). He is first full-length English (genre: literary/romance) fiction Online@Offline had been published in 2014, by Lifi Publications. His second fiction (genre:  literary/quest) titled In Search of la Radice was published in 2017 by Xpress Publications. Also worked as an editor of a poetry collection titled Whispering Poeisis, which had over one hundred poems from sixty poets from different parts of India and abroad, published in 2018 by Poeisis. Presently working on his third literary fiction. Moinak loves to do photography apart from listening to music and watching films and traveling.