Foreword
Ade Caparas Manilah
Dr Jernail S. Anan
Introduction by Basudeb Chakraborti
1 A poem on Kumbh Mela at Prayag Raj
2-8 A Sequence of Visuals: The Nineteenth Century
9 Hymn to All Un-hellish
10 My Consciousness of Beauty
11 My Mind My Dictator
12 Is This So?
13 Joy Volatile
14 Summer’s Ecstasy
15 Fond Adieu, My Soul
16 Soul the Eternal
17 Let us ponder Positive
18 A Flame of Soothing Fire
19 Sri Lanka Dazed by Hellish Barbarity
20 Silence Often Audiovisual
21 Indian Monism
22 In This Tired Noon at the Campus Village.
23 Vidyasagar Death: A National day of our Mourning
24 To the First Day of Bengali New Year
25 Individual Talent and Collective Consciousness
26 Difficult to be
27 Grassy Our Lawn
28 Blind Lane
29 Our Unknown Future
30 The Moon: the Icon of Our Love!
31 A Demand to my Love
32 My Truth in Love
33 Our Republic Day
34 The Midnight Yearning
35 My Visit to Her ‘Elfin Grot’
36 My Profit and Gain
37 Biology plus Culture
38 Adolescence in Writhing Pain
39 Poetry, Creativity and Insanity
40 Our Meaningless Demand to Almighty
41 Conflict: Free Society and the Utopia
42 Man’s Unflinching Quest
43 The Binary Opposition: Individual and Society
44 Complacence in Life
45 Where Thou Are
46 The Small Baby
47 The Modern Oedipus
48 My Reciprocated Love and Rain
49 Just a Year Ago
50 The Moon: The Fountain of Our Faith and Love
51 We are united!
52 Sylphs on Duty Day and Night
53 Colossal Battle of Thomas Hardy’s Sue Still continues
54 Time to see how weak We are
55 Modern Machiavelli
56 Our Inter-dependence
57 An Articulate Citizen
58 Life Continues Till Life Ends
59 We all in love of Journey
60 The Unseen Certificate
61 An Autobiography of a Fountain Pen
62 The Binary Opposition: Individual and Society
63 Machine Civilization
64 The-Half-hearted History
65 The Priest and the Beast
66 Gimmick of Love Concluded
67 Love Re-visited
68 My Dotting Mallard
69 The Scarlet Letter
70 An Autobiography of a kite
71 Service to the Divine
72 Letter Writing is now an outmoded Art
73 The Music not in Harmony
74 Music: Unified Sensibilities
75 Poetic Illusion
76 Greed: A Necessity in Life?
77 All I dream
78 My Highfalutin Feeling
79 All is inseparable
80 The Middle Aged Modern Dilettante
81 What India means
82 Indian Diversity in rock-hard Unity
83 A Ping of Poetic Properties
84 Poetic Process
85 The Word Soul Ransacked
86 Adieu! Uninterrupted Peace!
87 Love Mythical
88 Joy tinged with Pain Eternal
89 Joy!
90 Love individualistic
91 Ode to unrequited Love
92 My Love Fearful and Prosaic
93 The Trembling Ray of Hope
94 Love Merged into Infinitude
95 A Tribute to Judith Wright
96 The Marlovian overreacher
97 My Phantom of Merriment
98 Ode to Rain
99 A Poet of excellence is not a charlatan
100 Exuberance of the Confluence at Prayagraj
101 Human Mind knows No Discipline
102 Indian Diversity in Unity
103 What India Means
104 The Middle Aged Modern Dilettante
105 Arcane Rites and Beliefs
106 Connectivity and Contact
107 Days in Peace
108 My crescent Love
109 My Highfalutin Feeling
110 The Demand of the Present
Poems written after COVID-19 Lockdown
111 A Lazy Moming
112 The Word Soul Ransacked
113 Poetic Process
114 Spiritual Symbol of Zebra
115 A Farewell to Arms
116 Self Effacement in Love?
117 My Divine Crises
118 Love and Aesthetic Consciousness
119 A Virulent Attack on Human Habitats
120 Waiting for the Next to Dawn
121 God in Life.
122 Parting Winter
123 Our Positive Energy in World Crises
124 Bio-engineering virus or an accidental cross over?
125 Temporary Chaos in the Cosmos
126 Farewell my Fancy!
127 Mind Sanitizer
128 A Terror with a White Mask
129 Naive
130 Why All These?
131 Animality and my Crying Conscience.
132 My Latent Flippancy
133 Smile While You Finally Leave
134 I Smile and smile.
135 Man, Nature and Coexistence
136 My Invisible Partner
137 Joy Transitory, But Not Painful
138 A Soothing Dawn in the front.
139 Interstate Workers
140 Timely Envisioning of our Future!
141 My Fickle Feeling of a Moment.
142 Our Misdirected Research
143 Being Human and Human being
144 Social Distancing!
145 More, more and the lot more.
146 Our Animality
147 The Flute Stopped.
148 My mind and its by-lanes
149 Time and Our bongs.
150 Beckon in Great Haste.
151 Love’s Long Duration.
152 Zohnerism
153 Machine like We Will Be.
154 Joy in Life
155 Life in suffocation
156 A Lazy Morning.
My Mind and Its By-lanes, the title of this present anthology of poems is significant. In the mind of poets, different ideas, queer feelings and often some absurd or weird or even perverted sentiments may visit without rhyme and reason. A poet is in need of a rational and conscious mind to be free from all these, at least at the time when he writes a poem. A poet is also a social being. He can�t go against the standard and the accepted norms and values of the society. He is in need of hiding something that comes to his mind. Every poet like an auto biographer is a liar. The second part of the title of this anthology seems to be tricky and naughty. Mind�s �by-lanes� may welcome and accommodate a lot of uneasy things which the society to which the poet belongs may not permit to be public. There are many taboos on sex, love, man and Nature, spiritual controversy and man and woman relationship in every human society. Naturally a poet has to abide by all generally. But there is hardly any compulsion in it. The work My Mind and its By-Lanes is like the work of a psychologist, and it is more than simple poetry, it is a guided tour into the reserved forests of his own consciousness. This is a work of distilled wisdom from the pen of a mature consciousness, which has contented with all the good and bad of his times. This book clearly points towards a certain sense of ripeness taking over the poet.
