Mainak Ganguly’s two poems


The Yellow Tram With A Red Scar


 

As I take a stroll every evening

There in those woods so green

I watch come to me from afar

A yellow tram with a red scar


 

The tram comes from a future

I conceived in the past

A world with a bloody culture

I once designed to last


 

Now as I board the tram

I journey to my end

For my future is a sham

My death’s a trend


 

But the tram changed course

And travels back in time

For my past’s the true source

Of each and every crime


 

The tram moves fast

And the woods go brown

As I reached my past

I got down with a frown


 

It took me some time

I righted my past

I cremated my crime

Returned at last


 

As I strolled the after evening

Within my mind ever so green

I perceived a thought afar

Yellow, but without a scar.

How To Make An Omelette?


 

Step 1

Pick up a stone

Aim well at the hen

Now the egg lies alone

As the bird flies away in pain


 

Step 2

Pick up the egg

Put it in your handbag

Let the chick-less hen beg

Let the childless mother nag


 

Step 3

In the frying pan

Heat the oil a little late

Sprinkle some salt if you can

Crack the egg and fry the omelet


 

Step 4

Serve the delicious omelet

With some green chili sauce

On a pretty looking glass plate

As another mother awaits a child loss.


Mainak Ganguly is a writer from Chandannagar, West Bengal. He teaches French. Mainak is a cinephile and a Filmmaker. His short film The Brave has won him the position of a Jury at the Les Films de La Toile festival in Saint Denis, France. Mainak is also into writing essays and he specializes in Consciousness studies. Mainak lives with his parents in their ancestral home in Chandannagar. He is a photographer and is also into Digital art.

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