Volume 5 | Issue 1 | April - May
2011 |
Himalayan brook
Arunansu Banerjee
I peel off my shadows
hide the rinds in blue sage shrub
and in pink lilies' smile
soft-spoken rivulet
cascades over rocks
filtered sunshine
lights up waxflower umbels
fragrant flames
attract birds and bees
busy stream takes no notice
Arunansu Banerjee - Arunansu Banerjee, from Calcutta, West Bengal, India, has been writing poetry only a few years but the art and craft were rooted in him long before his work appeared on web forums such as Soul to Soul, Here & Now, Kritya and The Peregrine Muse. Arunsansu is a teacher by profession, with a degree in physics and a specialty in softwares. His primary love is listening to Indian Classical music. Favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Li Po, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda and Matsuo Basho.
