In Spite Of…
written by: Pranab Ghosh
@gpranab2012
There cannot be days
Darker than these…
There cannot be evenings more
Claustrophobic than these…
There cannot be nights more
Worrisome than these…
But then…
There is that Long Island
Neighbor leaving cooked
Food outside the doors of
A corona-affected mother.
Or,
There are the caremongers in
Bengaluru, who arrange
Supplies to the needy even
In the seat of power – Delhi.
Scaremongering had sapped
Our vitality…
Now, caremongering has made the world
A lovable place once again…
Despite
Corona havoc!
Pranab Ghosh is a journalist, writer, poet, translator and blogger. He runs a blog “Existential Problems.” His poems and prose pieces have been published and accepted by Dissident Voice, Spillwords, The Piker Press, Setu Magazine, Pangolin Review, Visual Verse, Memoryhouse Tuck Magazine, Transendent Zero Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, Literature Studio Review, Leaves of Ink, Hans India, etc. He has coauthored a book of poems, titled Air & Age. He has to his credit a translation of a book of Bengali short stories. The title of the English translation is “Bougainvillea and Other Stories”. His second book of poems and first solo book, “Soul Searching and Other Poems” (2017), has been published by Scarlet Leaf Publishing, Toronto. His second collection of poems, “Vision of the World and Other Poems”, has been published by Impspired in November 2020.
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