Nascent Bylanes

August 3, 2020 ✍ Poetry poem unrhymed

Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has been published in reputed literary magazines and poetry anthologies across the globe. His work has been archived at Yale University.

Nascent Bylanes

Hanging in front
Red yellow blue orange
green in the paper board.
Take a gun in hand
& shoot as per desire
Shoot my id, my pretence, lust,
ladder, arrogance

Be a sharp shooter
& shoot, as per desire
all pumped balloons
hanging from the
ephemeral board

But do not shoot
nascent lanes & bylanes
beside the bush
Tomorrow
red yellow blue orange
paths may sprout from
nowhere

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