Poetry – Aneek Chatterjee

Two Shots: Two poems

1. Birds

Birds, flying in the sky
Happy

Or, are they?
Who knows!
Sky never told you,
me, anybody
Birds never told us

As impending darkness dawns
We birds love to color happiness
& let it survive for the moment, eternally

2. Childish Rains

The taste of needles invading
Your drenched skin is indeed
Extraordinary and the burden
Of green mangoes in your
Small wet clasps is never a
Burden at all.
You get frightened by the
Sound and flash of light coming
From above, but that’s
Full of excitement and revelry.
Green mangoes escaping like
Small frogs giggling in rain

You’re also giggling and
Kicking accumulated
Water bodies and your mates
In a never ending show of rains