A Discovery



A bug has been biting continuously
My brain,
It’s like little kids thrash guava
With their incisors.

I discuss
Politics and of tomatoes and brinjals.
Politics
Taste of a curved young girl’s bosoms;
Sliced by ethereal hands
Like ready to eat raw tomatoes on the table,
This makes mind frenzies.

A bug has been biting continuously
My brain,
Have gone intractable after following the horizon
Like a mad, a contribution.

Sometimes like an enlightened
It just says:
“Life is a horseman’s odyssey
-the acceptance of emotions.”

About this poem

The poem was first published in Assamese in 1965 in the poet's collection Man Mayuri. English translation of the poem appeared: August 2021.

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Submitted by chao.pradyut on August 24, 2021

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABxc xcxcxxx ABdd xxax
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 512
Words 87
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 7, 4, 4

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