Issue: Vol. IV, No. 1, May-July, 2025
Endless Curiosity
The windowpanes of my room have broken
On the longitudinal cracks of someone of these
black tape has been put.
Ceramic darkness making the inside invisible
In intense engrossed state.
the glasslike hearts softly break down
Someone's brittle image gets shattered
for whom you too are anguished
In sheer solitude
we keep on peeping through the broken window
life's eternal mystery. We find, lose, don't find
Extending our hands through the raised curtain
we seek
the cravings felt in infinity
Knock of dreams on the broken glass of the dark window
Endless curiosity about infinity.
Buldozer
In metallic heat
I’m sinking
in a glass of thirst
The radiant lense of my spectacles
has hit a burnt dream with a brittle sound.
Along the fingers flow down
drops of harrowed blue.
The shattered heart is weeping in sadness
The broken laments of the reed wall float away
along the bosom
In the self narrated saga of the river is buried
sick skeleton of dead fish
On the weight of downcast dream
the camelfoot tree fell down uprooted
the branches of the youthful tree are
torn off roughly
The world— a tinted on-line luxury
the cursed shadows of unsatisfied souls are ready
to commit suicide jumping down from every bridge.
Evicted progeny
In sleep shudders the tinkling bangles on hands,
the anklets on feet, the breath inside the throat
Silsako. Bulldozer in the heart
Translated by Uttam Duorah
Jiba Gogoi is an Assamese poet based in Duliajan, Assam. His poems have appeared in various leading Assamese magazines.
Uttam Duorah, the translator, retired as the HoD, English, Women’s College, Tinsukia and is based in Tinsukia, Assam.