Life

by Pranab Ghosh / August 1st, 2021

Think not of fulfillment
Boredom holds sway

Think not of fructification
Infertility holds sway

Think not of reciprocation
Indifference holds sway

But…

Think not of death
Think not of decay
Think not of giving up

As life holds sway.

Pranab Ghosh is a journalist, poet, author and translator. He has three published books to his credit. Air and Age (co-author; published from Kolkata), Soul Searching and Other Poems (first solo book of poems, published from Toronto) and Bougainvillea And Other Stories, a book of short stories in English, translated from the Bengali original. His poems have been published in Tuck Magazine, Dissident Voice, Literature Studio Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Leaves of Ink, Weasel Press, Ochebooks.com, Harbinger Asylum, Spillwords, The Piker Press, Visual Verse, Hans India and Setu Magazine, among others. He is married and lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Read other articles by Pranab.

This article was posted on Sunday, August 1st, 2021 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.