You are Leaving........Nirmalendu Goone

[prasanna]

You are Leaving




You are leaving: the steamboat starts off undulating the river

Amidst the clamour of engine

From behind the cloud of smokes

Beauty of your weary face gleams

I don’t remember from when I am watching your going away.

You’re leaving: there is no end to your leaving away

It has been long since you started leaving

There is no end to it, no end by any means.



A few words with the winds, a few words with the rains

Then I spot you again as I turn to the Dhaleswari ;

As if your sailing starts off afresh. You’re leaving:

The launch starts off undulating the waters

Your weary fading face flashes tearing the black smokes

Exactly like your leaving for the first time.

You’re leaving: with two winkless eyes

I keep on gazing in the direction of your way.



You’re leaving: the river ripples with whimper

You’re leaving: the wind whiffs of death

You’re leaving: my existence sways. The steamboat starts off

The turbine picks up speed shaking up my soul’s propeller.

Your vanishing face flashes tearing through the moving cloud of smokes

As if you’re drowning and floating up

Nothing can complete your departure.

You’re going for 3000 days, you’re going and going.



2

You’re leaving; the sky collapses on the moonlight of the wavy river

Your sailboat, like a black goose,

making way through the kāsh grove,

grazing the sugarcane fields,

proceeds at the beckon of an unknown universe. As you go away

the sky breaks down like a sky. O waves,

O all devouring river, O unfeeling dark boat, whom

you’re carrying away atop, she was none to me - why then

The evening sky falls down on the moonlit waters?

Falling down into the deep of water, only because you’re leaving away?



3

You’re packing up: bulbs knock off the lamp posts

Intense darkness of earth’s womb descends encompassing the whole town

As if a crafty magician has spread his black scarf over this township

There is no music except for the saddening chorus of a few crickets

There is no jingle; no artistry of life, there’s no soulful animation.

Rendering this locality blind, you’re moving to a distant city.

Collecting in my eyes some dreamy light from that city

I wonder at your destination, skyward. You’re leaving:

Noah’s flood erupts in your departing eyes, spectacles. You’re leaving:

a melancholic beagle stirs up a storm in the inside Ashoke garden

You’re going away

Leaving behind a wretched forlorn city of dead.



4

Clouds of sorrow collect in the restless eyes

I can’t look at your face.

I look around to steal a glance at you.

The rains drench the aerodrome: my eyes tend to mingle with water

I can’t look up and meet your eyes.



5

You’re going away, my poems are lying alone

Laden with the grief of a shot down lion.

You’re leaving: some words waver in tears.



Written by:
Nirmalendu Goone

[Crow]

Prasanna,

Thank you for posting this. So descriptive, like a short story that makes one feel apart of.  I hope you repost your childhood favorite poem by Frost. I see that it was deleted along with some of your other posts. You had mentioned on another thread that you wrote poems. In time I hope you will share with us some of your poetry.

Safe Journey

[prasanna]

Dear crow ,

     Thanks a lot for your love towards me.I too wonder  now why many of my posts are deleted now.I remember I wrote  more than 1260 posts yesterday.   Why Many posts are missing?   I think   hope and even  trust,  our friend moderators  may clarify our doubts. I even wrote personal mail to Our dear Dhav asking for clarification. Thanks for ur post now, through this I am able to express my doubts here.  I found some posts of our friend Rurk61 is also missing. Why? I dont know the reason.Really i felt sad for the deletion of post on appreciating ur poem and my favorite  childhood poem .Ok friend i wll try to post my own poem  but, I dont know I can do that because , I write poems in Tamil , many may not understand mine.You can see my Hindi poem in mother's day special,  in poetry thread.  Thanks again friend.

yours friendly,

[Rohiniranjan]

Dear crow ,

     Thanks a lot for your love towards me.I too wonder  now why many of my posts are deleted now.I remember I wrote  more than 1260 posts yesterday.   Why Many posts are missing?   I think   hope and even  trust,  our friend moderators  may clarify our doubts. I even wrote personal mail to Our dear Dhav asking for clarification. Thanks for ur post now, through this I am able to express my doubts here.  I found some posts of our friend Rurk61 is also missing. Why? I dont know the reason.Really i felt sad for the deletion of post on appreciating ur poem and my favorite  childhood poem .Ok friend i wll try to post my own poem  but, I dont know I can do that because , I write poems in Tamil , many may not understand mine.You can see my Hindi poem in mother's day special,  in poetry thread.  Thanks again friend.

yours friendly,

It is not all that difficult, Prasanna!
Don't let your mother tongue get in the way
Open your soul and share...
Addendum: [Oh and keep it short if you can! People on internet have short attention spans and many have short fuses ]


Arz kiya hai, as our urdu poets gently say meaning, I respectfully submit to you, dear readers/audience the following words:

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The answer often lies
In the body of the question
The newborn looks up at Mother with a question in his unfocussed eyes
Little does He realize
That in Him, Mother has found Her Answer!
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[prasanna]

Dear Ranjanda,

                      " Dhanyabaad  "




Regards,

[applebee]

so many beautifull words and so sad - thanks for posting it!

[prasanna]

You are very welcome Santa, thanks for reading that  beautiful words and sending feed back about my selection.