A dark poem as part of a poetic response to the prompt ‘Talking to My Soul’ given in The Significant League literary group for the #NationalPoetryMonth in April.
Talking to my soul amid the dense cacophony of haywire wants,
I had forgotten, that my pensive heart is a nomad with dementia.
Never knowing the morning from the evening, she remains moored
To dark mazes, breathes in crushed remembrances, protean verses.
The blood moon of those stories nestled in my crevices love being left alone
Under the shaded canopy of an eclipsed sky,
In a dark, sleepless corner of a wrinkled city.
At other times, she strolls around, forlorn, a misfit among the garrulous bubble of streets.
Talking to my soul amid the restless chants of those dismantled evenings,
I had left the nomad with her furrows, her estranged tombstones of memories.
I should have never left her alone, rather flown along with her
Like a little river amid the dark, endless maze, both finding our motions, then changing our courses.
I left her, and now wander in my darkscape of urban high-rises, a wasteland
Of disheveled bodies of color.
Have you found your elemental rhythm amid those colors of gloom, my nomad, demented heart?
Lopamudra (Lopa) Banerjee is an author, editor, poet and writing instructor staying in Dallas, Texas with her family, but originally from Kolkata, India. She has a Masters in English with thesis in Creative Nonfiction from University of Nebraska and also Masters in English from University of Calcutta, India. Apart from writing and editing some critically acclaimed books and being awarded with the Reuel International Prize for Poetry (2017) and for Translation (2016), she has dabbled in all genres of writing, from journalism and content writing to academic essays and fiction/poetry. She has been interviewed in various e-zines, literary blogs and also at TV (Kolkata) and at radio stations in Dallas, Texas. Very recently, she has been part of the upcoming short film 'Kolkata Cocktail', a docu-feature based on poetry, but her love for writing feature stories go back to her journalism days when she interviewed people from all walks of life and wrote essays and articles based on them. She loves performing poetry as spoken words art and has performed in various forums in India and USA.
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