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Set Free

June 20, 2020


Set Free

A Sonnet

Painting by Priti Ghosh

On a treacherous terrain of frosty slopes,
Deep ravines that swallow souls and hopes,
A malefic black dragon its talons sharpened,
Plunged into hero-flesh and his term ended.

His body wept blood on white pristine snow
And soul rued the valour it couldn’t show. 
The deceit was quick, slimy and deadly,
The dragon would pay for adventure dearly.

Like Baji’s men for a living Shivaji unleashed,
The platoon sprung like a possessed fury-horde.
Each a ten seemed with ten pairs of arms,
A blazing heart powered blood curdling roars.

The pall of hesitancy fled in that melee,
Enemy head, limb and souls were set free.

Squander Not

February 9, 2022


Squander Not

Sonnet-An Invocation to the Master #263

Whence the tide of events that leave me thus
On a lonely shore by hope unfrequented,
Where the winds that ferried through distances,
How on Thy crowded world am I marooned?

Am I then exiled from reign of gods and fates?
Only a twilight sans an issue or outcome
Reigns dully forbidding all lofty use
Of my being that for long Thy will did affirm.

Declare Thy intent, reveal the secret hand,
Make plain the meaning of my banishment,
What tenure, what poise must I then spend
For Thee to unlock this barring gate?

Oh squander not my being unused,
For all its becomings were by Thee composed.