by Rik Bhattacharja | May 25, 2025 | Poems
Far away from homeThere’s a graveI’m looking forTo chill my warm bonesWith your cold embrace.Fireflies would light candlesTo my final memoriesOf your laughterThat’s etchedDeep within my bonesRusty scythe of deathWould rattle bitter-sweet musicOf your engraved memoryOn...
by Rik Bhattacharja | May 25, 2025 | Poems
There are days when You wake up to Requiem in D minor, And then fall asleep To the wet wails Of Darbari Kanada. Days that start with Internal Screams, Munching on a heart Static, frozen… As if The yellow corridors of hell, Where Dante would not Dare to venture alone,...
by Rik Bhattacharja | May 25, 2025 | Poems
Dark clouds gatherAs old wounds festerIn a heart heavyWith griefs unknown,Barren lands, yet to discover…In a sparkless world –Where tears do not rain,Not anymore,To ease some tension .My pen, traitorous,Refuses to bleedAny more words,On your stale paper.Nor do pixels...
by Rik Bhattacharja | May 24, 2025 | Poems
Dear Artist Red is the colour of passion, And blue that of sadness – Or so people say. As if colours ever had Inherent meanings other than ones We bestowed upon them… What are these colours even, Without a stream of light? Their waves crashing on pigments Who are...
by Rik Bhattacharja | May 24, 2025 | Poems
The wise ones often sayWhen one faces death –The eternal oblivion,The shared experienceThat makes us all kin –One sees with clarityThe life that one livedWith moments bitter-sweetSavoured once more,In a flash of a moment,In the blink of an eye…What I’d like to...
