Munghyr and other poems of Sujit Mukherjee – Part 1

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Poet’s profile

Sujit Mukherjee

Sujit Mukherjee is an author, poet, photographer, culinary expert and an erudite scholar from India. He is M.tech in Chemical Engineering and MBA from XLRI (Jamshedpur ). He is also a well known business leader. He was awarded best poet of the year in India, twice — in 2013 at an international poetry event hend in Bengaluru, and in 2017 from the National Centre for Art and Culture. His poems are translated in Spanish, Portuguese , Chinese , Italian , Greek, Arabic, Romanian, Bangla and Hindi languages .He authored 7 non-fiction books and 18 books of poems. He has travelled more than 75 countries in the world .He was facilitated at the Rashtrapati Bhawan two former Presidents, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and Pranab Mukherjee. He is a member of the prestigious International Writers and Artists Association(IWA), based in USA (UNESCO recognized body). His books are kept at the National of quite a few countries. He is the Poet Ambassador from India for the world body of poets (PPDM ).

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globalbihari.com presents his poems in two parts today and tomorrow

MUNGHYR* 

Munghyr, a town frozen in antiquity

Once you were my world

I  spent my teen years in your cozy company

Mighty river Ganges nurtured me   

My  town  school hummed with activities

Trees were laden with fruits

Ghosts of  haunted house atop Pirpahar scared me    

River Ganga disappeared in a bend at the Kastaharini  Ghat

Vapours of  Sitakund hot spring warmed by soul

Jamalpur loco shed had the aura of British colonial era 

We knew everyone in my little town by the river side

In search of livelihood, I had to leave you

I longed to return

Fifty years later I returned  to your lap

Nothing has changed in this quaint little town by the river

I  backtraced my childhood  memories

To  redeem my lost life

You smiled  and took me in your lap

And  returned  me to myself

Keep me in your lap forever

Allow me to flow with you 

A timeless , ageless journey …

*(Munghyr is an ancient  town in Bihar in India)

SOME DAYS

Some days 

A  river wakes up

Inside my body breaking its banks

Everything gets swept away

Some days

Waves and waves of emotions carry my love for you

Love  inundates  all emotions

Some days

I am immersed in your beauty

I am lost in the melodies of  your voice

Some days

River within you too wakes up with its chants

Memories of our togetherness is

Carried by the rivers within us …

WHAT IS YOUR AGE

Some feel young at 90

Some feel tired of life at 20

Many ask me

What is your  age

I tell them

When I play with the infants

I am an infant

When I talk to school kids

I am a school kid

When I watch young boys and girls

I am romantic like them

When I visit my parents

I  behave like a responsible son

What does the age have to do with me ?

Isn’t  age nothing but a number ?

What is the age of the sun

What is age of moon

Time changes everything

I too change with time

Life is a journey I am passing through

How does my age matter ?

I  don’t question my age

I  question how I lived …

I AM THE SONG*

I  am the song

You are the tune

I am the body

You are the soul

I am the flower

You are the fragrance

I am the food

You are the flavor

I am the breadth

You are the oxygen

I am the tree

You are my root …

*(This verse is called Saptapadi , which means seven steps we take to merge with the divinity in us .

This a marriage vow Hindus take during their marriage. This has origin in our scripture RIG VEDA )

NOSTALGIA*

We  played

We  joked

We quarreled

We  studied

Our campus became our world

We bonded and merged as a family

Two years passed in a jiffy

Our degree was the wings given to us

To fly in the sky of the corporate world

We carried a memorable piece of our campus life

We  parted company to chart our future

Life became a series of class rooms 

We all scaled new heights as we soared in the blue sky

We took different paths

We led separate lives

Yet

Memories of our campus life never faded

Hoped against hope to redeem that life

At least once in our lifetime

Our reunion in 2017 after 44 years of  parting

Transported us back to 1971-73

Everything about each of us have changed

Yet

Our feeling for each others and friendship

Remained  unchanged

We remain forever bonded

Having begun our journey in the same boat – XLRI

Let this energy of togetherness 

Give us fresh lease of life

To  navigate the last leg of our journey ahead …

*(I met my MBA batch mates from XLRI , Jamshedpur after 44 years for our reunion)

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