Defeating the tears

Tears clouding her vision

A lump in her throat

Refusing to go down;

The sting of a hundred needles

Piercing her heart,

A thorny rose crushed

In her delicate palm...

The helplessness of deception

The remorse of a wrong decision

The serpentine thoughts threatening

To strangulate her at once...

When she finally decided to stop

The self-torture and self-pity;

Wiping her tears fiercely,

She tried to smile

Recollecting fond childhood memories

Night outs with her best friends

And there she was...

Laughing her heart out

Defeating the tears;

Surrendering to pain is never an option

She had grown up

Singing in the chaos

And dancing with a broken foot.

-Purba Chakraborty

(22.06.2016)

Linking this poem to Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Resilience

Playful Shadow of Reality!

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Revealing the truth

In shreds and bits

Some sprinkled here

Some scattered over there;

Revealing the truth

Wearing a mask

So that the readers

Cannot connect all the dots.

Fiction is a playful shadow

Of reality and truth;

Following it loyally

Imitating it in parts.

If the fiction is touching,

Trust that the reality is heart shattering.

-Purba Chakraborty

(8.02.16)

Linking this poem with Prompt Nights – Truth is stranger than Fiction [5] and sharing with Poetry Pantry #288

My 1st poetry book...Releasing on Valentine's

My relationship with poetry began when I was eight years old. I have memories of writing poems on sheets of paper and using my Dad's stapler to make it look like a book. I used to also sketch something on the first page and write "A collection of poems by Purba" on top of it.

So, I guess I had this dream of authoring a poetry book since I was eight. I have authored 2 novels till date Walking in the streets of Love and Destiny (2012) and The Hidden Letters (2014). I have also contributed my poems in various anthologies. However, I was a bit hesitant to release my solo poetry book because of various reasons.

Honestly, my blog played a huge role in making my decision firm to work on a poetry collection. It helped me polish the art of writing poetry and also rekindled my intense feelings for poetry. 

Here, I must also mention the talented poets that I came across Poets United, a community for poets who blog. Their constant encouragement and honest feedback had helped me a lot. Had I not come across Poets United, perhaps I would have been happy being just a contributing poet to anthologies.

So, finally, after 2 months of hard work, I am ready with my 1st poetry book. It's titled ~

The Heart Listens To No One

...it hums its own song...

It is a collection of 35 love poems. The poetry collection is divided into the following 5 sections, representing the 5 aspects of love~

Unconditional Love

Longing

Romance

Fond Reminisces

Separation

The Kindle Edition of the book will be available for download on Valentine's. I am also looking forward to release the book in paperback. If things go right, then may be the print version will be available by April. 

Will soon share the ordering links.

And here is the cover of my 1st poetry book. Hope you all like it.