On Chennai Floods

Cold hands of miserable death

Strikes on bubbling life..

If breathing be so temporary

Why we bent on strife ?

Lifeless bodies water soaked

Dismal evening rolls by

Why does death get its share..

While life ends before time, why ?

Why has nature fumed in fury 

Why water kills, if it is life ?

Why does a mother's boy

Never return from endless drive ?

Why my city's face be written with

 Melancholy, somber and pangs of pain

Why did I ever get to see misery

Which I can never forget again .. !

Life is so precious a gift

Though sometimes ends unwrapped

He who read this cheerless poem

Know I had felt for each one, distressed !

~Manjuri~

In Love We

Not very far off, nor close by

That I  find you each day

See you with my heart's eye ! 

Beyond the peripheries of

Distance and time, you shall

Remain, always truly mine !

Dark grows the night, 

Dim gets the soul's light

Yet I find you shining, bright !

Thousands of miles across the globe

Far from my eyes's reach

I know you are there, you still exist ! 

Search for yourself, if you are lost

Hunt for yourself in me

Know that you cannot exist, apart from me !

Return to your sweet abode

Doors still wide open

Die once for love's sake, let love happen !

As a wave fall on another wave

And marches together towards the shore

Let me be you, or else allow me to be no more ! 

Life shall be, life goes on

Who cares for what it has in store 

Let it flourish us with  many breaths, 

And allow  us  to love more ! 

Let moon be out goblet tonight

Let us drink all the wine

Promise for once, even if untrue

Whisper to each other

"You are mine".

Tomorrow is far off

It has to pass  all the night  to see

Come let us hold each other

And halt the night, and in love, just be,we !

• ~Manjuri~

Souvenir

My wine does not intoxicate me anymore

It does not flow in my vein..

I have forgotten to leave my senses

I have forgotten to be in love, again !

My late night madness have calmed down,

I have found my generated self

I still blush recollecting

How insane I had made myself !

I thought the world was mine

I assumed my love in drunken state..

Now to realize the truth, and be me..

In senses out, is a complete bliss !

Curse me no more, for my madness..

Hold me no more in your heart..

I am happily moving away..

Gleefully I am seeking path apart !  

No more remains the vows of love..

No more does my heart longs thee..

What a joy it is, realizing ... 

Within you, the place of me !

Love shall not cease, 

Nor my heart stop to beat..

Its only that now I shall be me..

Outside you, and grow complete !

My longings shall find vent...

Someday far away, beyond the night sky..

I shall come to meet thee, in a gown black..

And in you, shall I submerge all that is me and I ..

My words shall freeze then..

Frozen shall be I ..

A while shall I live in you..

And then bid you my final goodbye !

Moist not your eyes my love..

Let no pain linger within...

I was yours.. and shall be..

But never to meet again !

If one-day  you shun your ego..

And solely remember me with love..

You shall know, I had loved..

With all that I had and have !

Time shall flow by, age shall haunt..

Some years down the lane..

I shall then be remembered by you 

But, never shall you find be again !

Love, shall rest in peace..

It shall sleep within me..

In it I shall preserve you...

In me, you shall always be !

~Manjuri~

Own Light

Beneath the heap of unspoken words

My love flourishes, in silence ..

When did I ever say, I need you

When did I want to love you,

In your presence?

Thoughts piles on thoughts 

I get lost in my own stream

When at the dead of night

I hear my own solitude scream!

Touch that I once felt, Now,

Wrapped in fabric, with utmost care ..

I wear in all the dark nights ..

To get the desired glare!

I knew not I could smile in joy,

Nor cherish all the impudence of love ..

But once I loved apart from me

I loved all the unloved from my soul's trove!

I seek no more pleasure of love

Nor do I wish a glance of my beloved ..

I today, am an anorak lover ..

Loving, without person, purpose or longing!

I love, because I know not any other thing ..

I love because I got to live ..

I love thee .. not for thee's sake ..

I love because I got to be me!

Long walk along the desolate garden

Agony that begets delight ..

Moist eyes .. glitters in smile ..

I have grown up .. in love .. 

I have found my own light !

~ Manjuri ~

An Evening By The Window

Softly the evening arrives

By my window..

My eyes smudged in

Coffee vapour

My heart smudged in you..!

Light that fades outside

Now, shines within me

Something that melts within

Flows in ecstasy ..

Long forgotten, nearly waned

Some reminiscences 

Urges to built a new home..

In that broken premises !

Wonder, ponder, sitting idle

Thoughts flow like stream

Again an evening passes by..

Touching me, as if in dream !

~  Manjuri ~

আজো প্রেম

বৃষ্টি আজো চিঠি লিখে 

তৃষার্ত এই মাটিকে 

মেঘ আজো প্রেম করে 

আকাশের ওই ঘাটিতে 

ফুলের বুকে আজ ভ্রমর 

গুনগুন সুরে গায় 

ঘাসের মাঝে ঝরা পাতা 

আজো লুটোপুটি যায় 

ঘুমের যখন ক্লান্তি আসে 

আমার চোখে নামে 

তোমার কথা মনে হলে 

লজ্জা অষ্ট চুমে 

পথের বাঁকে দাড়িয়ে ওরা 

আজো প্রেম করে 

আজো আমি  হাড়িয়ে যাই 

তোমার স্মৃতির ভীড়ে 

আজো ঠিক তেমনি আছে 

আমার রাতের আকাশ'

শুধু একটু যেন ধূসর লাগে 

নিশীথের ওই চাঁদ 

তুমি আছো , আমি আছি 

আছে আজো প্রেম 

শুধু নেই সেই দিনগুলো 

যা পেছনে ফেলে এলেম 

আবার যদি দেখা হয় 

নিভৃতে কোনো দিন 

চোখ বুজে আবার দেখব 

স্বপ্ন রঙ্গিন, স্বপ্ন অন্তহীন 

~ মঞ্জরী ~

Forsaken Love

That excruciating pain

Deep within the soul

Buried beneath the

Rubble of blur memories

Almost strangulating

The leftover of me

I cannot bear, 

Bear anymore

The burden of 

Ever-expanding distance

Where two parched souls

Live together in separation.

Each evening ushers

A tornado in my heart

Each night slides 

An avalanche ..

Yet the eternal wait

Which blooms within

Like the fragrant

Jasmines ... buds open

Then I sit to compose

Another poem

Touched by your hands

Words stolen from your soul..

Oh ! What would I pen

What would I have written

If you had not given..

Some love, forsaken !

~Manjuri~