SELECTED LOVE POEMS BY SHASWATA GANGOPADHYAY
Paddy-field and a scarecrow
As a hymn is complex written in Hebrew alphabets So you’re, but more difficult to understand, More unknown your whereabouts Days come and go, shadow spreads over the dykeIn collective prayers farmers look for Clouds and crops in their fists and Their doleful lamentations for raindrops In suffocating summer-heat In the same way in sick paddy-field I stretch my two hands
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You’ll be coming…and I stand and wait just like a scarecrow
The Silk Road Literature Series 2021
