9 Quotes by Abhijit Sarmah

The purpose of poetry is not to provide a solution or, say, to stop a war or prevent millions of people from dying, etc. Poetry can never do that. Poetry is all about keeping the dialogue alive. Poetry must bring forth, time and again, issues that need attention and are intentionally or unintentionally forgotten.

It ends. Good thingsalways end terribly,at dawn in his armswrapped, silentlyor— late in the nightin unchartered apartmentsor hotel foyers, over a fight. It ends. Good thingsalways end terribly.

So old were you, Grammpa— the last time I saw you, anaemic You looked like the monsoon in my town.

A withering gem at the heartOf a dying river—Majuli

i reach the perfect cube, and wait forsomebody to pick the phone back at home.

Don’t I remember those rustic evenings, now buried under a thick shawl of futile memories when you and I, walked and talked and melted into the lurid nightfall? I do.

for how long can shadows deceive? tomorrow, draw the curtain in hope forget the footfall, see the crimson look out for no reason, you’ll have it.

My town of clouds and riverOf terrifying minds and young dreamsStreets with some peopleGood people smilingTrain tracks of dreamers,High, happy, celebrating—Us, themselves and the beauty.

PARTITION'are your drains clean of blood now? do you recall the names, and faces of your own people? did your countrymen get to die right like human beings? butchered sisters and mothers still wait by the windows, with no lantern. that was no proper farewell past midnight. minarets whisper your ghazals to an empty sky, Koklass’ know the borders too. what have you done, sir?