Two Poems by Ipsita Ganguli

Ipsita Ganguli is a seasoned poet. She has written on myriad themes, love, nature city scape, nation and anything that has touched her heart. She effortlessly weaves her emotions into the folds of nature, making the whole universe resonate her feelings. Her dreams travel from the shoreline to the skies, the sea bed, floating with the winds into the sand grains. She paints synesthetic images with words that stay .. “palm fronds caress the moon”.

1. Beyond You, Beyond Me

I scatter my broken dreams along the shoreline
Some of it is carried with the wind to different shores
Some of it lies seeped into the sand grains
Some of it rides on the waves
It waxes and wanes into you
And then it goes far far away…

My love bursts forth
And blossoms there
Spilling over
Rejoicing
Revelling
Moving
From the sky to the waves
Immersed in it
Wrapped up in the colours and hues
Of the ripples of the sea

Beyond you, beyond me
Beyond my broken dreams
My love remains
Like the very crust
Of the sea bed
Or the depth of the ocean
And the height of skies
My love remains
Scattered there, immersed in it
So much beyond you, so much beyond me

2. On the Riverbank

The river sees it all
The gush and flow
The stagnation
and meanderings
The drudgery
And then
Infinity
Into the sea
She flows

The palm fronds caress the moon
The rustle of the leaves
On the river banks

They hold magic between them
Encased in that moment
Encapsulated within it

So that even afterwards
The magic lingers
Through the hightides
And the Storms
And through darkness
The essence remains.

Profile

Ipsita Ganguli is a Business Consultant, Poet cum Travel Writer cum Heritage and Art Enthusiast. Ipsita writes…because she “must”. Her poems have been published in several national and international e zines and anthologies. She is one of the main characters of the poetry film “Kolkata Cocktail”. She has ideated, conceptualised and conducted a series of Talk Shows entitled Cafe Conversations and curated offline Poetry events for Kolkata Literary Meet at Victoria Memorial and at Kolkata Centre for Creativity, amongst others. She is the recipient of many literary Awards including the “Order of Shakespeare Medal-2021” and “The India Independence Day Global Literary Honours” jointly awarded by Gujarat Sahitya Academy and Motivational Strips, the world’s most active writers forum for three consecutive years. Her poems have been translated into Bengali and Assamese. She has authored two books of poems Of Love, Longing and Random Pondering and Rooted, India 75 and We the People.