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.
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