debut: Elegy of 31st December,2017

debut: Elegy of 31st December,2017:

       Oh 31^st December,

At the fag end of the year

Amidst the light, music, crowd and cracker

How do you feel the kick of the Newyear

At chilled midnight?

I hear a howling outcry

Piercing the feeble melancholy

That lost in the orgies and cacophony,

"Forget me not, forget me not,’

New years come and Old years go

But please leave a sigh and a drop from eye

For me!"   

Wrapped in silent languishment

Do you wait with one more stone

for the grave, to welcome the next 31^St?

Or, wish to join in the team of

Mourning concert of all

Past 31^st Decembers together?

But there is nothing to mourn,

As in the cemetery of Time

All past present and future

Stand in the same pedestal,

Keep running with the eternal flow.

New year comes and old years go!

N.B.

I got the idea of this poem from my personal diary which was written twenty years back; lt was in prosaic order and in my own language, Bengali. It  was a night when  2000AD, the new millennium was just approaching   with  a mixture of daunting apprehension  and overwhelming vigor. I was alone in  completely unfamiliar new neighborhood. As soon the  clock declared 12 ) 0'clock, I heard from my closed apartment the bursting of crackers along with music and cheering voices of people from all around ; out of curiosity I opened the door and came out in the balcony  to look down the lane. 

Wow!The narrow lane was festooned with balloons and decorated  like spider's net  with multi-colored lights like roof over the lane. I peered the  view of joyful kids with glittering party hats on their heads and whistles and enjoying icecream  (defying the chilly weather of the December),the giggling  parents, young men and women were having funs and snacks from the adjacent food-stall. The lane looked like an empire of Arabian Nights described in the fable.For the last two years ,there was so much speculation and rumor about the new  millennium  which might hit the cosmos with chaos and calamity. But that present scenario left no such trace in any face. Forgetting  all about calamity, people were eager to embrace the new millennium   warmly.   

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                                                             December 26th, 2020

2020 is a landmark of this millennium. Though each December  reminds me this poem and to renew it ,but I would like to add something; as 2020 manifests  itself with special  feature different from other years of this millennium.

                             

                                          Like every year December 31 is coming near

                                          Knocking me to post and share with others            

                                         Though we passed the jingle bell of Christmas

                                         And sight of all festivals of lights in dampened hearts;

                                         As the pandemic still hangs in precarious future!

                                         Perhaps this December31,2020, won't rest in sepulture.

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Dec31/2024

                                           

                                          

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