Poems of Shah Jehan Ashrafi (Mauritius)
In a cave
We dwell in a cave
We defeat ourselves
And become what
We believe
And so be it!
Hope is an illusion
We are culprits
Carving and transforming
Our Identities,
Mere templates
We think we are rainbows
With thousands of colours
We evaporate like clouds
Each fleeting moment
A proof of inexistence
Lonely tree
The lonely tree
Awaits winter
The season of despair
Spring’s foe
Autumn’s falling leaves
Consume my restlessness
I live in hope
The white cold snow
Will freeze my fears
There will be another
Season of flowers
.
Surrender
I surrender to
Metaphors
Solving puzzles
And dissolving
In them
I dwell on shards
Every moment
An enticing quest
I walk in a maze
Missing conquests
And chasing
Daymares
Fleeting moments
Freeze
Paintings on memories’
Canvas
I become elusive
And melt on the horizon.
Memory’s glitters
Frozen glitters
On silvery memory
An open door
To unimaginable bravery
I move round and round
An unstoppable drill
A life wasted
For a single moment’s thrill
The beloved’s face
Is blurred in time’s mist
The mind, hell-bent
To open the mind’s closed fist
Move on and forget
This is how it works
But some stories forge us
Rolling tears,
Life’s treasured perks
The heart is sacred
So is poetry
The sound of rhymes
A pious sorrow, a whispering chaos
To chase fireflies
I kept running on
Shards
I forget to wear
My golden shoes.
Gloom and Bloom
And autumn came
With its heartfelt
Bloom
For me it was
Never a season
Of gloom
Our pain and stories
We all feel doomed
But let us keep
Them all
In a melting heart,
A solid chest.
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published from Aurangabad, MSD, W.B. Editor - Md Ejaj Ahamed
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published by Md Ejaj Ahamed from Aurangabad, Murshidabad, W. B, India

