Purabi Das

Sometimes you come with an unheard tread And slip into my heart. Sometimes your unfelt touch soothes away heartache Sometimes an unspoken word Halts my impetuous tongue. Sometimes I see…

Why be measured Why do scales and peers and milestones Have to define you? I am fulfilled Savouring every experience After giving up The paraphernalia of success. I am free of…

Smitten by living Drowned in experience I was heedless Till a moment fraught Taught me the lesson of mortality Not morbid but prescient. I finally opened The Bhagvad Gita of…

I carry in me Your ineffable smile When the heart takes off On the lightening sky A dead branch greening Or a flighting bird. The twinkle in your eyes Lights me up To another’s…

I am not a saint Don't make one of me. It wasn't all sacrifice and humility and truth. I didn't start out to Appropriate the forgotten. It was not till they tweaked my soul That I…

I fell into a dream And awoke in it And I have been In the dream since. The world is mine The rivers and the mountains And the sentient trees; The fishes, birds and animals Talk to…