Memories
written by: Gopal Lahiri
@gopallahiri
Memories are the troubling stories, unreliable confessions,
stray reminiscences, deepening darkness,
and thoughts on life.
Memories are love, art, nature, and society,
fresh and startling reflections afloat,
shifting currents and squally days.
The winds, the low sounds, the odours,
the mountains, the river valleys,
the islands are the landscape of memories.
Memories can be compassionate, ecstatic, arrogant,
cynical, anguished, the log book of sailing boats,
trifles of thought and diction.
Memories can be tobacco leaves, rain drops on leaves
arrowheads of geese, tail clouds,
sadness and gratitude.
The breeze’s whistling, summons and refines,
Wicked fathers, virus, darning needles,
Surgical mask and syringe are the bedrock memories.
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 31 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred journals and anthologies globally. His poems are translated to 18 languages and published in 16 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He has received Setu Excellence Award, Pittsburgh, US, in poetry in 2020. He has been conferred First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award in literature in 2024 for his significant contribution in Indian English Writing. His collection of poems ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets,’ has received Pan Asian Ukiyoto awards. First Prize Winner in Poetry Contest organised by 43rd World Congress of Poets in 2024.
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