My Dolly

My Dolly,

Morning
I see you

Evening
I see you

Still I
Can't
Get to see
Enough of you

Wish
In the noon
You could
Pop in from
School

For me
To see
A bit more
Of you

:-)

(Dedicated to my daughter Kochi who's like a doll to me :-)

Nowadays, she calls herself Gisu (G pronounced as in Glue and eesoo) and me a rhyming name Misu (meesoo) as she misses me in school :-)

Poetry & Photography by Aparna Chatterjee

Every Day

Every day
I have to
Inspire
Myself
To cook
As there's
Nobody else
To cook

Wrote this thinking about my cooking routine. Hubby's too busy with work to cook. Children are too busy with studies to cook. So I'm the only one who has to spare the time to cook. Back home in India, we all used to take turns to cook (I, my mother, my father and our visiting relatives) and so cooking didn't seem to be a chore and I used to love cooking :-) Now it has become a daily drudgery, having cooked here for more than 15 years and so when I want to have some food made by someone else (kisi aur ke haath ka khana), then I have to bank on takeaways and home deliveries.

Image © Getty Images dot Com (Courtesy: Boloji)






Know

Does
Anyone
Know
How I’ll
Die?

Maybe
God knows
How I’ll die

But he
Won't
Tell me
How I’ll
Die...

Why?

'Cause
He's very
Secretive

That's why!

;-)


All the above Poems are © Aparna Chatterjee 2015

You can read more poems here

Canada

Canada
Giye
Ki Korbo

USA Giye
Ki Korbo

Jokhon
Monta
Tomar
Kachhe
Pore Thake

Kothao
Giye
Ki Korbo
_______________________

Why go to
Canada or
USA?

What shall I
Do there?

When my
Mind remains
Always with you

Why go anywhere?
_________________

Another version could be:


What shall
I do by going
To Canada
Or USA,
When from
You I can
Never stay
Away...!!!







Born

Do I
Want to be
Born again
In this
Unsafe
World?

No.

Do I have
A choice?

No.

God who
Takes care
Of all our safety
Will again send me
As if to show me
How he really cares
For me ;-)

The

The whole
World is
Speaking

Let me be
Silent

For when I
Start speaking

The whole
World will
Go silent

(pertaining to God's silence)







Why?

Why do
I live in
A perpetual
State of
Denial?

The reason
Is simple.

Reality
Bites me.

(Theme: Escapism)







Gorges

Her
Husband
Left her
With so
Much of
Bitterness
That she now
Gorges on
Chocolates
To get some
Sweetness

(written after visiting an acquaintance of ours who indulges in a lot of comfort eating to fill up the emptiness left by the strained relation with her ex-husband)


The above Poems are © Aparna Chatterjee 2015

The photo with the Canada poem is that of Aparna Chatterjee

The photo with 'The' poem is © Getty Images dot Com (Courtesy: Boloji)

You can read more poems here