Issue: Vol. V, No. 2, August-October, 2026
Things come to life thus
Centering time
Things thus come to life
The way amongst people
Between a man and woman
It sprouts
Those things that we are discussing now
I peep at the heart that turned mossy
New possibility
Where a kite hovers
against the wind
Hold on to the words
Words wander keeping its quality intact
If you watch closely
You’d notice the words
Breaking and making the heart
The words sometimes appear bitter
Sometimes the sweet appear bitter
Sometimes bitter appear sweet
Words are sticky
To listen to a sound from an ancient time
One puts its ears to the wall
As the sound is heard they thump the wall
Or rejoice with ululations
Now a bulb glows at such sounds
Once Hemkosha picked up the sounds
Some hint of incarceration was there
One poet meeting on the way refuted the sense
Words are conscious awakened
Its momentum unstoppable
It comes out turning into a storehouse of inexhaustible vitality
One cannot measure the standard of a word with any scale
Natural smart colourful curious
The words turned into an integral part of the world around
Hold on to the words
A new world would form in the words
Translated by Bibekananda Choudhury
Pronobi Gogoi is an Assamese poet based in Duliajan, Tinsukia. She has published three collections of poems.
Bibekananda Choudhury is a writer and translator based in Guwahati, Assam.