The Starry Night
Light is on
passion fruit- sprayed on
those silent boats
that never speak
in the starry night
oxygen laid on
Van Gogh's ear-
cutt off, bandaged,
never repent a tear
in the starry night
all because the night
and I will never die
pangs of jubilant, curious eyes
are my friends
will wake me forever
in the starry night.
Sunflowers
sunflowers dipping
into maple syrup
fluffy, oily pancakes
(Monobina Nath is a poetess living in Kolkata, India. Her poems published in anthologies across the world. She was selected in National Bilingual Poetry Competition in 2021. Her forthcoming work will be in The South-Asian Youth Anthology, My Slice of the Sky)
