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Nov 2018 · 128
Tie my hands
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Can someone inspire me
Can someone inspire me
Can someone inspire me

Can someone love me
Can someone inspire me
Can someone inspire me

Can someone **** me
Can someone **** me
Can someone **** me
Nov 2018 · 238
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Yesterday, i shot a man
I killed my wife
And buried my child

Two years ago,
I hung my dreams
And some other people
Associated with certain things

Today i sat on my mother's grave
And poured alcohol on my dad's
Dug out my girlfriend's heart
That went missing in a car crash

I snuck ******* in my notebook
And smoked blood wrapped in liver
And licked the remains of a dead rat
While trying to define lust

I dug out another ear
And chewed it alongside bread
Wonder whose grave i'll dig out
When I'm beside them
Cold and dead.
Nov 2018 · 321
Close
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Blind men breathe talks of the night
Fingers, lips, tired eyes
Toxicity of the mind

Baffled and taken aback
Right or wrong
Not what we had

Cradling love, Fingers sore
Though so far,
Yet, so close.
Nov 2018 · 258
Son Down
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Son, your mom is dead son,
Son, it's time I shot you too
Son, love isn't okay
But what am i supposed to do?
Son, I tried to fix my tie
Son, Sonny boy look the sky is grey
Son, Bid your gold fish goodbye
Son, Tell Maurice you cannot stay
Son, Tell Oakley that games aren't bad
His parents lie to each other in their marriage
Son, I have to leave your mother,
I'll be leaving with blood on my palms in a carriage
Son, life isn't easy,
And in this dusky town,
I'm gonna let your fragile body slide under the dirt,
By the time the sun sets down.
Nov 2018 · 113
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
I'll be waiting with dead roses
In a little horse and prim
White roses are sinful
And I ain't your kin
I'll be calling out to you
When it's dark and grey
I hope you come back home
And make love to your prey
I hope you come back home
And love me everyday.
Oct 2018 · 157
maurice
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
The sun was shining,
the leaves were sparkling through the open window
Sylvia finally looked at Jove
Lee-Roy had bought fruit
And Jane the apollo-servant



In a far away land where cherry trees lit up villa,
Maurice shot himself.
Oct 2018 · 116
Religion
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
what is your religion i asked Jesus
He said command of life
I asked Ram, the prophet and chronicles of brave
They said they died under a knife
I asked the beggar whom he worships
Money and a certain flower
Religion is a questionable thought
which changes by every hour
What is a relic i ask
what is God
what is power
whom to worship
whom to kneel to
what is religion
what is a blind man's idol
I asked the
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
I wonder if it is normal for people to pass through a stage where the obvious is the content by which we spill tears every day or that our lives and eyes come to a total zero. There is no hope for recovery and you know that this is the most horrible phase to be stuck in. There is no movement for the future or any optimistic approaches to be happy or be better in the nearing future. Life is tough and i have to accept it at this point. I know that there are various kinds of depression which we face everyday. There is the economical one, and also people are healthwise improper due to which they lead a very uneasy life. But there is the thing about mental trauma. Mental trauma kills everything on the inside. It's like a ******* acid truck burning everything inside you. There is no lead forward, there is no happiness beyond and lastly even if you cry for help, no one will be beside you. You stand alone. You are alone and you have to face all of this by yourself. If you want to **** yourself, you have to cut your veins, there won't be anybody beside you.
I hope i go to a pretty world next life.
I really hope so.
Oct 2018 · 169
He says
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
He says it's good to start a war
He says it's past three
He says it's untimely to fall in love
He says it's not just me
He says to throw myself at men
He says it's an act of *****
He says that he loves me not
He says my ******* are sore
He says I laid other men in bed
He says I lie a lot
He says to cut my womb in two
He says that my baby rots
He says and i listen to him
It's an act of cat and mice
I'm just a part of his game
Where he throws the dice
Oct 2018 · 261
Teleport
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
Throw me in the bowl
Cereal killer,
Mix me and soul
Pour the milk and tears,
Instead of running and running and running and running
Nowhere
Teleport
Teleport
Teleport
Sky runner, teleport.
Juvenile, little crime, mix me in the bowl
And teleport me
to home.
Oct 2018 · 181
Adultery of a teenage whore
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
Did you cut your hair, who are you?
Did you run from bad man,
bad man is coming after you
Did you wear your socks
Hide
Bad man i giggle
bad man will take you away
Did you Cut your veins?
Are you sad?
Are you dead?
Bad man where are you?
Is your face covered in a sack?
I hide no more
Like my flaws and **** my flesh against the wall
Butcher my eyesight
Flies, smell and the touch of bad man
**** my love.
Sep 2018 · 158
I'm fine
Sukanya Basu Sep 2018
The koi fishes swim in drains
The government plans sweet revenge,
The blue skies turn into grey
I'm fine.

I have lied and lied all through
From teachers to friends anew,
I'm like a dead captain handling the crew,
I'm fine.

When my parents abandoned me
And the cat cried symphony,
I looked over you grave and said to myself
I'm Fine.

One day my prince would come,
The day will start with sun,
He would whisper in my ears
"That's a lie."
Sep 2018 · 1.5k
Phoenix
Sukanya Basu Sep 2018
You were there
Among millions of sweaty bodice
returning from the festivities,

Shouldn't the sky seem particular
Of a colour of a romantic being
pushing poetry in the likes
Of citizens of the night

The Universe unbothered by who killed whom
Or the philosophy of life,
Errands running from the bishop town or the markets of dream

Rush hour of the busy life,
I ask the meaning of life,
The holy pages of what not the monks, the sky,
The ask of truth, the sands of time

From a distance, you went by
And weren't a vision from the ornamental fashion they sell

I saw you never,
And I am cited for hell,
But your eyes sold the the meaning of life,
And this foolish passerby, could tell.
Sep 2018 · 528
Blood in art
Sukanya Basu Sep 2018
My mind fathoms what art is,
Paint in yellow or green
War is a paint
Man is a brush,
Children of art
Behold colours!
Flag rise of enemy comrades
painting the art of a body
The woman, the art, the screen, the scent, the who?
WHO, I ASK IS YOUR INSPIRATION MY FRIEND?
MY FOE?
Is it art?
Or is it the dead bodies in the end?
Man, i beg you, stop this war
Art for art, i beg you time and again
Like waves of screen, make art,
make blood of acrylic not blood of veins
Or the countries and borders and
Children in vain
Christ i beg all in art's name
Give me the glory of art,
Not the glory of fame.
Aug 2018 · 2.8k
Yours, Medusa
Sukanya Basu Aug 2018
Eye of a stone,
Blinded in shame,
Snakes on my head
Crying in vain
Dare not trip in wires of the sky
God or men, hate them or die
duel of chic, Angels of brothels
Serving their bodice, mind and villany
To art disown heaven
Or to burn into dust
Hell is just the reality
Rising
To face,
To fall,
The superior
Or call him
Unworthy, fake,
Terror is his name!
"He is wise, he is great!"
Only fools pass his gate
To drag Lucifer the bringer of light
Into shadow, the dark of night
Call him Hades, call him bad
It's the truth in his hand
And how could i forget Poseidon
Dear me, the conned face of villainy
dragged my flesh and sent me to hell
Burning his desires unto my breadth
And i stood for justice name her
Athena she is fair
or so i though till i read
"She's one of them, beware!"
And turned my head into a snake like crown
fighting my innocence bringing me down
Alone in this misogynist land
Grab my bitter hand!
Mankind is cruel
Man doesn't build home,
Justice contradicts itself
And Gods turn us into stone
Jul 2018 · 162
testimony of carnations
Sukanya Basu Jul 2018
Give me sunflowers
Oh! where hath it been
It's been summer all this while
and my heart seem keen

For the yellow and the joy
And seeds of green
Where art sunflowers
Why art being mean?

Ah the carnations! The innocence,
where the wind,
******* to thy heaven's door
The meadows the green!

Oh my heart cries for such beauty
And in thy beauty it lies,
The pain, the sorrows, the unhappiness it cries!

Oh my poor heart,
hush now may,
Close your eyes,

It shall be summer one day
Jul 2018 · 255
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Jul 2018
hither the skies,
forearms doth mere bare
hither the blue,
his eyes everywhere
hither the lush,
hither the green,
Doth may seem keen

Thy eyes foreclose melted plants,
tracing it down as a cherub,
growing, fermenting, sun and starch
Hither thy heart a mere cherub,
growing fermenting, sunlight and green,
melted plants and melted jove
melted are eyes that bear oceans of wilderness
And depths of blue,
And death of plant,
Sings death of heart, broken and lost
little cherub amust
Thy seed poisoned with hate,
grows into a vile serpent
Sunlight doth seems away,
rain and storm brings to stay
Away with rain,
thy heart mourns to grow
Nurture the seed
It doth not need to throw
Away the pain thy leaves hide
growing yet repenting
underneath skies
who art the skies,
who art thee,
Art thou not
A man like me?
Jun 2018 · 178
Mother to a screen
Sukanya Basu Jun 2018
And born to lies,
electricity, bills and tables with mice,
womb of discretion, generation of hate
Nine months of drunk vision
and life time of pain
generation, revelation, theory of none,
Mother of a crime,
Felony named the son,
behind the bars of learning,
and teen years of drugs,
mother hood of whom,
is a question a must
Pain to a screen and pain to a heart
pain to thoughts, generations apart,
cash, and cold, money and gold,
lies and hate, savings and fate,
mother of a few,
birth of a crime,
generation of hate,
irony of time.
Jun 2018 · 229
Brown
Sukanya Basu Jun 2018
and abase,
solidarity though an endless crowd
appeals and bank notes, solidarity at war,
borderline of men,
solidarity and cards,
economic feuds and appeals to be granted.

Bow down, fix the tie,
close your ears , shut your eyes

give birth to war and womb the seed
of solidarity, frowns and greed.
May 2018 · 223
Test paper
Sukanya Basu May 2018
I always imagined myself drowning.
I know you'll probably think i'm deranged, clearly depressed or challenged by critical movies.

Clearly my self-worth drives a delusional north and becomes cringe-worthy while trying to express myself.

But i just want to drown.

The sort of numbness when your fingers tremble, a psychological torment at the thought of living forever under waves and trying to re-construct impossible situations where everything works out fine.

But i just want to drown.

Ever tried to love him when he walks past you?

But i clearly don't want that.

Like i said,

I just want to drown.

-Sukanya
May 2018 · 1.4k
The book
Sukanya Basu May 2018
Lyrics written on Church walls
Bashful lurking Lucifer,
Carved glazes of canker crawling on the mead
Drinking vile torments of men
Lucifer hath angel been
Spread wings of human fate
guided men on burlesque dives
through historic and futile rage
Drawing on lost and regained have never been thy aim
For jeopardy in art's name is nothing but a lost game
God and man and Vinci guise
And letters of un-earthly paradise
And decades of poetry sinned
To unmask man through lyrical films
Morte, life, determining naught
Empty pages of science and draught
Realms of here and realms of there
Realms that thy heart found rare
Antonym of fright being scare
Is not what man learnt through time
And there as courage behooves and
Life draws you to her
Death seems close in the arms of beloved
Pain, man's secret armour
bellows courage with a fake accent
Coming of seasons and dawn and light,
Poetic romance fretful sight
World naught ready to love and cherish
Human cans't broil feel
April as thy knows
A heavenly soul of a year,
Brewing rose, carnations and dew drops in time
A certain cotillion towards the other,
A light breathing when eyes met
Beyond the language of the celestial walls
Eve and Adam through bright colour meadows
I see as thy eyelids quiver from haunts of past
And as night descends the maiden shy
With light prance of the lion he prances
Flesh by flesh swoon by temptation
Drops of naive lies
promises of eternity
Battles of Brunanburh
Horses line up to a steady flame
Fishes swim in fleshy rain
Draining mouth of Paris gates
Writing pages of descent
And on with thy fire of the month,
November rose in the wild grass of beams
Battle lost and won it seemed
On another hill a maiden swept her hair
Through rosy gleams and eye of glass
And smiled like the forbidden apple of fate
Jumped like the lion
left in dismay
songs of despair
An orchestra of pain
Nightingale of death bellows of wind
On sunday the fifth he had sinned
she had cried and shown the rose
cigarette and smokes
of nothing proposed
Flesh be thy crime
heart be thy muse
Naughts had been reflected
in thy abuse
Stricken the horror bladder
Rose with dismay
And to **** the canker
in whom the ***** played
Alone within thy celestial walls of God, Goddesses and fate
Questioning thy holy spirit
the mistakes thy made
Entrusted with athenian history
Women bearing dagger
Human sentiments are evil
Lucifer is the rightful dowager
It's him who sheltered blue
Evil is romance
hardly to swoon
The right and wrong and sadness grief
If they see world of poverty
And happiness a myth
And now trumpets of war
And experiences blithe
To see the world anew
whom is right?
If Lucifer the fallen angel saw
what was yet to see
God is a liar and heaven's a greed
Thy stealth steal within bosoms canker
hate, ****, juvenile crime,
Crime is the way
to drive horrors in time
Human history baffles thee!
Social etiquettes and manners of glee
Whom to fool and whom to wrought
The lamb, the tiger a hated must
Angels, demons painted square
whom to whom the battles were?
The right of man to sin and begone
are fated dramas of life and forlorn?
Brew the evil and feed thy good
Awake! Arise! never be fooled!
And sadness a step,
sudden and dark
Thy unending stairs to heaven abased
Lonely as autumn arises and leaves gather
Memories of child and man
Memories of fated hand
Thy walks through
Matured, mind of steel
Anguish concealed
A heavy sigh of a grown mind
Scorns the happy girl
And laughs over her dead pearls
Mind of a grown self
Visits Celestial walls,
The temple, the bed the wrongs
The right is a foolish girl
Inside her body the birth of a new world
the falls the laughs the pain the demands!
The gunshot of life
The circle of hope
And nursing and growing the cherub of flesh
Is they mother nature with a man of crest
The moon as it shines, shows horrors no more
But in thy heart, a maiden sad
To loose all she ever had
But to gain life
and knead love
To love love and to grow above
Lucifer reads bedtime stories
God saves the crown of glory
Life smiled and played along
Death for death
and finding songs
Growing up in lilac storms
She learned to battle and grow a home
Keen on her *** to bottle dreams
Milk and bread is new it seems
Tyranny with a ****** sword
Knives it's prey as it creeps from it's door
But in white she clad and drew the sword at hand
Tears as bows it drew
Battle of ages seen never so shrewd
The good plot for her
The evil shined
Who art evil or good
She painted blind
She called her demons risked her God
She became human is sad of all
Thy maiden story once again read
The man who left
Evil has no name
So good naught trust
for good is thee
Good is evil
That had been set free
Whom to whom
And what to name
Should haunt the grave
or visit a pray
For to pray is a prey
And grave is a paradise
Questions she darted
With wide eyes
I showed thee card where black and white
Rose to fame side by side
God is lucifer
heaven is hell
Man made tricks on walls
For stories to tell
Man is mortal
desires are innate
Soul is thy spirit that lies awake
Death of life is a soul that plots
Stays on Earth in shallowed knots
To be beyond and to see the light
Have naught done that
Life is a sight
Not seen to man, if realised is beyond
To trust in fame is all that is done
Meekly shown courageous sprout
To do good or evil is a judgement about
The religious amenities made by man
To shun Lucifer is yet in thy hand
To pray him is a choice thus
But to prey pray has been man's lust
Again memories squint of thy maid on the meadows
Flesh on flesh haunts thy skin
Shallow breadths and mortal eyes
Rise beyond skies they speak
What sky what ground
What lava and heavenly abode
To grow old in folktales
Aside dusky shores
Man knows all
Man knows good
Good of man
Is a questionable truth
Man knows evil
Man knows crime
Man knows nothing
He is lost in time
Man knows man
is what tale they should
Write on walls instead of evil and good
Evil might harm
And good might ease
But man does both
And later he grieves
For grief hath no church nor temple nor mosque
Grief is inside man's chest
Pumping through his *******
Of Eve's fool and Adam's greed!
Of the canker of the holy grail
Of the lies he feed!
Who art to decipher life beyond life
When life is tormenting
even in it's sight
Who death, desert or leaves the soil
Who plants and grows in thy turmoil
Who loves and cares and makes thy life
Who saves who draws and pushes knives
Who grows and finds peace in thy self
Who plots and fails and satisfies and helps
Who prays and begs and trust in him
Who prays and begs and trusts in sins
What the sins, what the truth
Human beings are born aloof
To end to grow to die or to be born
Man hath no power to tell of or scorn
Man is a flick
Man is a pride
Man draws wars
Man lies
Man brings flesh
Man grows thee
Man dies tomorrow
Man is me.
Apr 2018 · 164
Oh piano
Sukanya Basu Apr 2018
Oh piano, the birth of my happiness in your tune
Your verses of wild music
drench me in joy
I feel love, death, screaming like a native found freedom

All i beg is the everlasting soft touch of your skin
Oh piano!
the music you let in
Apr 2018 · 203
Enchantress
Sukanya Basu Apr 2018
'Tis composed in free verse,
nay more free than my soul
Eloquence of a dead man
spring of a deer at heart,

Mind of a frosty evening,
More eligiac than the war of our breadth
I'll break to you what summer is,

The shine of a crafty shadow of a bark
wearing ruby in your reflection,
the hollows of the leaves and bits of light from evening
joust in a green robe of poetic imagination,
the kind of bliss i imagine thinking of you

Think of spring music in the back,
A certain B with a certain A
A certain happiness,
like ripples of the stream,
My enchantress in white,
Clad in pain.
Smiling yet dead,
drenched in rain.
Mar 2018 · 334
Rinse
Sukanya Basu Mar 2018
I shut my eyes and things are red
I open them and my blithe is dead
I rinse the clock and turn it back
Give me again all that i ever had
The man i loved the friend i knew
In this cosmos happiness is few
And i cry and cry and tell myself
Will the daffodils smell again,

I shout it from the ocean below
muffled breadths and garbled low
In this ocean of fear will i survive,
will i swim up and be alive
and touch the sky
that is above all the pain
Where happiness is a merry gain
Where sonnets and jove harp a string,
I would do anything
to live my dream
and wash it clean
Feb 2018 · 207
The pool is red
Sukanya Basu Feb 2018
i see my prey through a glass door
i feed on her eyes,
i feed on her memories,
i feed on her smiles.

My prey turns into a ghoul
By midnight her body hangs by the ceiling
And blood drips down her spine

the blood drips on the floor
her eyes ***** roll down the wood
her tongue hangs by a thread
i confess my love for my prey

the fly sticks to the door
the buzz makes me happy.

The ***** magazines lie on the floor
with cover girls of blood

i write a poem and jump into the pool
i swim in her bile
and drink her corpuscles
i play with her ***** hair
and make love to her dead soul


By morning she is alive,
she sleeps beside her night
And there is blood no more


By night again,
i wait till ten
when her blood is on the floor.
Sep 2017 · 442
impromptu: part 1
Sukanya Basu Sep 2017
twenty years from september the third,
50 years from make-belief world
My shadow will lean on yours,
Don't blame your darkest depths
with skulls of cave on the northern sea,
buried beneath your ocean of fear,
a part of you, impromptu,
to face your chill.

Let me start with tales of man,
oh how man stood on sand,
and told tales of ghost, ghouls and cursed tombs;
Man feared often animals, the plague, deforestation,
or the ****** expression of a wife's gloom,

And to tell the tales from parts of the dark
where hid bats and caves,
i assure you, men are fools and they made fake stories
of escapades!

Juxtaposing their wars of glory,
seems absurd beside their horror stories
and to tales that you heard as midnight fables,
the crooked shadow and destruction of heaven

And the puppets of midnight scare
that creep to you with a note of beware,

to the graves that pass after dusk,
and the smoke from the buried Earth,

I tell you are nothing, but Human!
No one is Satan but him!
No one hides in the dark
But darkness within!

Man fears only Man, i tell you lad!
more appropriately, himself;
but is a meek, a coward , a shame of pride!
To stories they have told of ghost, ghouls and plague,
Are stories of themselves behind the crooked chase!!

Impromptu is man's middle name
And to fear him is a question of why,

Because men **** men
And hide in dark skies,

Men **** men,
And in darkness they see their own eyes.

Impromptu, bashful men,

fear is their middle name.
Jul 2017 · 325
Letters from winter
Sukanya Basu Jul 2017
From ends of time and seasons quaint
i have asked "what aroused thee?"
Thy spirit of ombre game
between hope and melancholy
Summer, the mighty king of pastoral sonnets
sits on the thrones of melody
Autumn with thy fruits of farmers and gulls
And Spring! the mighty spring
the luxury of fame and splendour
Bless me with thy Poetic Muse of fame and glory
Poets of fall, poets of glee
poets of Jove, poets of eternity
mock me with thy haste
Write me through elegiac taste

i come to you with snow and king
tell me when i killed your joy,
Paris never loved Helen in any dire season
Winter never attacked the city of Troy
Nor have i burned you with glazing heat
like summer does through months
or the autumn that has interlude itself
cunningly between farewell and Jove's lust
or the spring whose beauty is unacceptable to poetic realms
and have filled human minds with fake charms
What is beauty without turmoil and hate
but also a warmth from your lover's arms?

Look at me, and tell me if i mirror you,
of human fates and glory
look at me, and i will tell you
of man and his story
Have faith in me and take in my beauty
take in the snow of your dreams
I bid adeau to your poetic realms,
For all i can try and be a hero in your escapade
i can try to wear and armour and rescue your elegiac notes
here's my tale for your poetic fervor,
here's my letter to you.
Jun 2017 · 512
sawdust
Sukanya Basu Jun 2017
Today as the tomorrow sighs
sawdust on the gleam
Yester-year, goodbye carols
goodbye all your broad eyed smiles and tally **
to Mary or Agatha or Caroline with a C
i hardly remember her name!
something with a blue and fake smile
and something about her hair,
my memory is in despair!
Or to you, or to the gulls
or to the sawdust from your house
I have broken thee from the roots of the pavement
a dollar for each window
a shilling for the roadside engravings
A dime for your penny-less worries
And to cremate the red of the fire
my un-tied shoelaces are barely of importance to the world!
I don't need to buy your monday blues
or to match the sunlight to the starch
Tell Gary, Harry, or any other bloke
to put the chandelier during christmas or summer
and carry the sawdust in your heart if you are generous
for a diamond studded disintegrated cloak.
Feb 2017 · 485
Margerie in a morgue
Sukanya Basu Feb 2017
Margerie Grey, some rendezvous prey
kneeling down to a box,

In my soul searching days,
was i a spectator in a glaze?

Hiding beneath a broken cross.

Margerie I remember, was 14 in such a december
when snow covered most of her spine
Her blood shot eyes and blood-less veins
Bleeding dust and chanting their names

Wouldn't it be all when books burnt with lives
And strangers cut with knives
would be long forgotten in a box?

I remember I was there
With the same pain and despair,
14 and holding and hand,

Dear Margerie,
Beauty is black,
but black is their soul,
don't stroke fire,
**** them when they are old.

Let them die with guilt and guise,
while you hold yours with memories of youth,

Margerie, tell them honey,
impatience is Satan's fruit!

Dear dear Margerie! show them your pride
show them you'll take them as your guide:

to intolerance and lies;

And a fake morgue in Paradise.

                       -Sukanya Basu
Dec 2016 · 694
Ice Queen
Sukanya Basu Dec 2016
My kingdom of fake lies and rusted promises
made me a carpet of ivy poison

I mocked your heart
and your precious horses

I burned the letters of my favoured corpses

Don't stand there
bow down to me you insolent fool
You heroic concept of utter foolishness
Your trade with other Kingdoms
let me down, you, YOU!!

And i have been standing alone
in my glistening kingdom
made of broken dreams and ice

Here burns the fire of your blithering Naive thoughts
Go jump into it like frightened mice!!

And leave me alone to plot my evil potions
Where guile and guts are my carved forks
And pour it with fears of girls with love

Pour it down to me
You know my story

My braided hair
and eyes full of glory
once with a brave knight in a tower

AND ON HE WENT WITH HIS SWORD
AND STUCK IT DOWN MY THROAT

And there it was,

The Ice Queen with the frozen power.
                                                                   -S.Basu
Oct 2016 · 651
Dawn
Sukanya Basu Oct 2016
The trees were a particular shade of green,
My boat was painted white
I was a sailor by birth,
A sailor by right.
Your chapter was covered in dust
beside Clapton's disk and Whiskey from the last decade
Go out and preach freedom to poor men with riches
And cross the river for me.
For if you won't, my boat would be stupid
And the river a waste
Some swift sailing turned into
A wild goose chase
My boat would be without oars and
the pole star wouldn't be of much use
For My direction is pointless,
but it leads to you.
Oct 2016 · 712
Amnesia
Sukanya Basu Oct 2016
To forget you
is a satisfaction

God gave me a child
Born out of fake will
and unwanted escapes

I need Amnesia to forget your smile

I need Amnesia to make this last a while.

I need Amnesia to make you mine.

- Sukanya Basu.
Oct 2016 · 502
Burial March
Sukanya Basu Oct 2016
Into the green, below the wisp
Where sunlight burns starch,
I will find a way to blow my horn
Playing Burial March.

One two three and six
goes my count beyond ink
Navy caps and army hats
tossed on the ground,
I will blow my horn
Sing Along
Playing Burial March.

When living started and came the bee
Counting days back to eternity
Have not found joy

Men killing men
Women verbally bound once again
History slaughtering itself in the city of Troy

But i'll be Bathsheba Everdene
And loose myself in the madding crowd
And i'll blow my horn

Two three nine and ten
Meet me in the soil again
Below the grass and dirt

Blow my horn
draw me on walls
Unto Burial March.
Oct 2016 · 347
Winter
Sukanya Basu Oct 2016
Tenacious enough,
I waited.

The sunlight glimmered
and i saw the last of you.
As your shadow walked by
an obscene memory

Metro trains with passenger heat
Countries crying for wars beneath

Smoking some blunt
And cursing luck

And as Hachiko waited
For years till death
And forlorn and debate

Should i wait for summer
Till it's Autumn again
Shoveling your snow and pain,

Winter was your middle name.
Sep 2016 · 488
Rainbow Quarantine
Sukanya Basu Sep 2016
Blue green and crimson red,
let them fall on the rainbow bed

Let them mix with porcelain dreams
In baskets of fruits and apples of screams
In touches of the maiden white
Running through streets in skirts

And spill them on the walls
And spill them on the greens
Let this be Satan's Rainbow Quarantine

Let this be life
in a beautiful dream.
Aug 2016 · 590
Song of Remorse
Sukanya Basu Aug 2016
I am an imbecile to the society,
And a lust for death
I don't know where it starts
Or my song of Remorse ends

I don't know where to walk on
Or kneel down to say a prayer
I took the Lord's name in vain
My heart said beware

Now that i have only words to reassure me
And a dead man's notice and a knife
I am wondering if this poem is eligible enough
For a dead man's defeated fight

I don't know whether this is a sonnet
Or a ballad
Or a lyrical tyranny

I am ready to carry satanic wishes
and end this phase
With words of Irony

Let this be my last poem,
for i hear the call now,
'Ding-****' said the dream
For It's finally over now.

I'll come back in another life
When love isn't a treasured greed
I'll come back one day before it's dawn
So i can see a city clean

A city where lies hopes
And abundance of dreams
For now it rots of despair and sorrow

And a sky full of hatred beams.
Apr 2016 · 399
Look Alive
Sukanya Basu Apr 2016
You wake up
And look to your right,
There's a person sleeping beside
You
look to your left,
Some framed picture of a renegade,
And then you stand,
arms fixed on deserted solitude,
Looking down,
No! never taught to do so,
You sigh
Your military clothes ironed
And a note from Lily,
"Daddy come home"

And then you draw your weapons and throw the whiskey glass on the mirror,
And with blood laden hands, profligately comb your hair.
Daddy said so you murmured with closed eyes,

"Look alive young man,
Look alive."
Apr 2016 · 324
When I burn
Sukanya Basu Apr 2016
When I burn,
And, I am thrown in flames,
Will you forgive my fights and screams?
When I burn,
And, the fire burns my veins,
Will you forgive me for all the stupid things?

I did or would have done
In the future non-existent,
And the lies written on my scars
Now sparkling in the sparkle reminiscent;

When I burn,
Will you forget the first hi and hello
And the shyness between us?

When I burn,
Will you forget,
The funny names we decided for our kids, at last?

When I burn,
Will you forget the awful 2 am fight?
Where we pushed and screamed,
Our Words extreme!
But how we held each other close, through out the night?

When I burn,
Will you remember,
The ring and
The vows that we said?

"Together and forever,
    Never alone,
        In life,
  And, in Death"
Jan 2016 · 397
Occassionally? Yes.
Sukanya Basu Jan 2016
Look,
I would literally give anything to forget you
The mind spasms,
The eerie loneliness mocking at me,
Every time someone takes your name.

But i don't just sit wallop, date, flirt, random kiss and push people away.

I cry and miss you.

Not always.

Occasionally?

yes.
Dec 2015 · 1.6k
34, wishland street.
Sukanya Basu Dec 2015
"To Richard,"
And tears fell, as i wrote your name.

"Don't go please."

34, wishland street,
Where wishes are unfulfilled.
Dec 2015 · 397
Skin on skin
Sukanya Basu Dec 2015
And that sweat dripping on from beautiful body and as i held you close, eyes burning to one another and i feel your warmth on your skin.
Making me burn,
Burning in lust.
Skin on skin,
If we must.
Dec 2015 · 1.3k
The Raincoat.
Sukanya Basu Dec 2015
The tiny marks in our hands
Aren't they beautiful?
Some crossed, some uncovered,
Some, simply
Wonderful.
And I am writing this poem for those wonderful times,
When this world was you and I,
When I was 5 and you were wet,
I found you drenched under a little shed,
The little paws and the big eyes,
Licked my face
And my heart was set,
I carried you under a raincoat,
And got my boots squeaked and torn,
And regardless, my mom took you for a monster
With ugly teeth and horn.

Years passed, and i grew up
From a boy to a man,
Couldn't take care of you, too busy,
With my dreams and my plan,

And one day i came back from another country,
And saw you no more,
For, there lied only the little raincoat,
That you and i once wore.
In memory of My mother's dog, Elsa. May you rest in Peace.
Dec 2015 · 808
Lucid
Sukanya Basu Dec 2015
This wrath of utter stubbornness, Shouting at me, tranquility of nothing but spilled wine on the floor, shouting like a mad man!

Is all that is left to love.
The grey hair and stubborn face
And weak eyes but steady gaze
All these years left to pace,
My love for you.

Between thin lines of rage and the grey collar on your neck
Handsome brawl of 4 scores and three
Is all left for me
And i marvel between wrinkled eyes
And laugh with all the bitter smiles
And remember this on a sudden while
The walk to the alter.
For there stood the same man before me,
Now grey hair and youth free
And all that belongs to me
In this life and forever.

My oath to you is fair and true,
For love is old and nothing new
The grave's cold but not our hearts,
beating for one another.
Oct 2015 · 1.2k
Little midnight mouse
Sukanya Basu Oct 2015
I see you slipping away behind the cupboard
I see your eyes reflect the moon
Those glassy eyes, shining like crystal
made me remember dew drops of June
Hey little mousie
Don't be afraid
I have cheese and shelter
And a bit of cake that i made
Don't slip away in the darkness
You're the only one that i have
I won't jump and scream
Shouting from the top
"**** it! there goes the rat!"
My dear little mousie,
This house is vast and dark
Why don't we go near lampshades
And not play hide and seek for a start?
My dear, feeble,  mousie
Don't go near the mouse hole
For there lies the mouse trap,

And our little rendezvous will be untold.
Jul 2015 · 680
Claustrophobia.
Sukanya Basu Jul 2015
I have ears, don’t wake me up.
Winds up here blowing in my ears
Fatherhood, come, here I shine
Cold and lonesome, crying in fear.

I think you hear.

September cries, so do i.
Pain inflicting as fear
Bicycle rides, open air
All washed away by tears.

I think you hear.

When I shout these to the world
Standing on the stage alone
Words crying in your ear
Do you hear?

And then at sudden times
When I am king of fear
I shout to you
“I know you hear!”

And I know inside
Between tears and cries
In the shadows, very near
His face shows proud and bright
And I whisper

“I know you are here.”
Apr 2015 · 411
Choice
Sukanya Basu Apr 2015
i have often wondered why crystals are unique.
Toućhe of thousand faces.
mankind as superior self, eradicates choices
Hath desire. hath fear.
i choose the prettiest face.
but it has a scar.
a scar from inside.
mind. unravel me.
when right is wrong and wrong is wrong,
i can't choose between right and wrong.
it feeds on my fear.
my fear to choose.
Sukanya Basu Feb 2015
oh boy **** me
Not another line more
i swear i'll die
these words appear like aliens!
ok, we all wish World War never happened
And that great man didn't appear like fat chickens in the history book
I wish super man could have an evolutionary story
And comedy central with guns and hooks
I really wish that clock would tick by faster
And that Edison could have found a dart gun
And the best would be instead of him, if it could be me
i could have invented books that could run
i really wish Romeo wouldn't be obsessed with Juliet whole day
But focus a little on his PSP player
And i really hope Math could stop focussing on its X
Because it knows the reason Y!
i wish mom could stop snoring upstairs
And take a break with sleepwalk
i really hope my 11th grade crush shows up tomorrow
Or maybe at night in my house without a knock
i really wish i could stop yawning
And glaring at the midnight clock
I'm done with William Blake or Henry Quatermain!
I need some music, maybe some mainstream rock!
Gimme a break dad
i'll grow up someday
but for tonight
let the mocking bird wait.
Feb 2015 · 733
LITTLE ARCHANGEL
Sukanya Basu Feb 2015
I am in love with you

if only your dreams would stop haunting me

Your touch makes me shiver at night

A longing for fantasy beyond words

Proclaiming
" i ain't good!"
" i know no holy!"
" i am a demon"
thirsty for your soul.
Jan 2015 · 538
Crimson Hues
Sukanya Basu Jan 2015
Hath I cry
When mystery rain showers upon me
Dew stuck in malevolent red
Slowly dropping from feet to head
May my crimson be the shade of immortality!
I have seen the orange skies cry
I have seen the mid summer bird
I have seen frost when it flies
I have seen my petal crumble in days
When love broke from its shackle
I have seen my seeds fly endless journies!
Flurry of wind, flurry of skies!
Oh fly to some distant land
May you grow a new pair of crimson wings
Where there are others
Blooming and smiling in the spring!
I have lost my self alone
In this bitter darkness dear one
Become my red, become my love,
Become me!
Hath I cry with strong desire
Become my unfulfilled thee
Jan 2015 · 368
Dear John.
Sukanya Basu Jan 2015
Dear John,
                  John, my dear dear one. This is my last letter to you. I know we have been through a lot, through storms and laughters, but i have loved you always. I know that you never showed it but you have loved me all along, that's what love is. The tear drops are splattered all over the page. I have been crying. You love her, she is the one. Not me. But John, I'll be happy knowing that you wanted me back. Its painful but true. I really, really love you. Deeply. You'll be mine... Forever.
                                                                                            Love always,
                                                                                                                   Jen.
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