The begining
More than two years ago I saw a photo in flickr from a young girl, Rumin. As much as I can recall, it was about a river, a boat … . The moment I saw that photo, I felt a shivering. Some words and lines from the constantly flowing ones in my mind started taking a shape. At one point I started putting them down on the computer.
I posted the poem first as a comment to that photo. Then I posted it with the English version and an art work of mine created from a photo I took a few months ago.
Here are all three of those creations together. (I did not find the photo by Rumin in her flickr photostrem in a recent search. For non-pro accounts flickr shows only 200 photos. May be someday it will resurface.)
I posted the poem first as a comment to that photo. Then I posted it with the English version and an art work of mine created from a photo I took a few months ago.
Here are all three of those creations together. (I did not find the photo by Rumin in her flickr photostrem in a recent search. For non-pro accounts flickr shows only 200 photos. May be someday it will resurface.)
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In the Body of Water
There the dreams talk to you.
When the shadows are taller,
School of 'Kachki' fishes
Swirl around
Not far beneath the surface.
Putting on the smell of water on her
The all-night-awake girl
Spreads her hair in the darkness,
Climbs up on the boat.
The lightning bugs and dragonflies
Listen to her songs.
Long ago
She went down
This remote river bank
To talk to her dreams.
Her beautiful dark body
Dissolved away
In the body of water.
Amitabha Chakrabarti
February 20, 2009
April 21, 2011
There the dreams talk to you.
When the shadows are taller,
School of 'Kachki' fishes
Swirl around
Not far beneath the surface.
Putting on the smell of water on her
The all-night-awake girl
Spreads her hair in the darkness,
Climbs up on the boat.
The lightning bugs and dragonflies
Listen to her songs.
Long ago
She went down
This remote river bank
To talk to her dreams.
Her beautiful dark body
Dissolved away
In the body of water.
Amitabha Chakrabarti
February 20, 2009
April 21, 2011
