I shall not go



Today in this moon lit night
Everybody has gone to  the green,
When the spring has raised
A fragrant, maddening wind.

But I will not go,
 Stay indoor in a lonely show,
being self oblivious.

I have to clean and wash my abode so carefully'
 I shall have to keep me awakecheerfully;
 At any moment my visitor may step in
if per chance he/she remebers me.

 In this maddening spring wind
Everybody has gone o the green.
I will not go, stay in.

 following a TAGORE SONG

21JUNE 2014
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Submitted on August 26, 2014

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Characters 460
Words 89
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 3, 1

Ranjit Sinha

I am from Calcutta ,India. I did Masters and Ph.D. in Physics from Calutta University. I then worked as a research scientist and a teaching professor, as well. I retired in 2005 from the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health at Calcutta when a senior professor. i started writing poems in my mother tongue[ BENGALI]SINCE MY BOYHOOD ABOUT 13. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL IN INDIA is famous for RABINDRA NATH TAGORE, A NOBEL LAUREATE IN LITERATURE,SIR C V RAMAN, A NOBEL WINNER IN PHYSICS ,GREAT MOTHER TERESA , NOBEL WINNER FOR PEACE. AMARTA SEN, NOBEL WINNER ON ECONOMICS AND SO ON. I HAVE TWO CHIDREN ONE DAUGHER AND ONE SON BOTH ARE IN US , SON-IN-LAW ALSO IN US AND THE SWEETEST GRAND DAUGHTER OUT Of MY DAUGHTER, A US CITIZEN BY BIRTH .MY WIFE, NANDITA, IS ALSO MASTERS IN ENLISH LITERATURE,WAS A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER. i have my root in a village. i am profoundly influenced by tagore,teresa and two bose physicists [jagadidish and satyen bose]. i am a central govt. pensoner. my pastime is poetry and flower garden .i have read the great epic of the hindu ,MAHABHARATA AND MY MANY POETIC CHARACTERS ARE FROM THIS TREATISE. TO EDUCATED INDIANS ENGLISH IS THE FIRST LANGUAGE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. WE LOVE TO SPEAK,WRITE AND DREAM IN ENGLISH, BESIDES THE MOTHER TONGUE. my poems are on nature, man and society more…

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