and two more!

Here are the last two poems of my 'Rendezvous with Assam' series out of the total sixteen which actually Thumbprint did not put up. :-)
So, 22nd May. Incidentally, tomorrow, 23rd May is Heartstrings' birthday... ummm let me see, 2008, wasn't it... 2008 to 2014, Happy 6th Birthday and all that in advance, blog! You reached it!

1.    

           Moi axomiya bhal pau , kintu moi axomiya na bujhisu

I like assamese, but then I do not understand assamese

But smiles and twilight laughter

Food, respect, bihu. Love too. They tie

And knit the world through a million

invisible threads. Probably they do not

Know. Nobody knows. Only I do. The world

Is full of sticky spider webs for me tonight.

Moi axomiya nohoi kintu moi axomiya prem korisu.

P.S.- I love you too. 

2.       The Memory of Assam

My dreams are still full of hills

And kamakhya and the Brahmaputra

Captured with difficulty in mind film

In so short a time, more easily on camera film.

I wonder sometimes at my strange fascination

Then I look at you, beside the Luit,

cradled by hills, haphazard unplanned city

with your big city feel and  your sudden small city feel,

 the land of bihu beauty, mekhela and bordoisila

And I know that despite problems

 risks, disruptions, contradictions

 uncertainties of the future

I shall return to this Assam

And then again.