Rupam Baoni’s first poetry collection, ‘Green, Red & Amber’ was published at the age of nineteen. This prompted her to be invited as youngest of twenty-one international poets and writers to a seminar on ‘Poetry and Prose: The Lively American Arts’ organised by the U.S, Information Service to prose and poetry readings alongside the US Poet Laureate Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, Dr Tim Hansen, Jayant Mahapatra among others.
LOVE
Who says that love’s blind?
I saw you at the railings
with your hands
stuffed in your pockets
awkwardly
and your speech faltered;
your faults glared at me,
I saw the chipped tooth
marring your looks
…and still I loved you.
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STRANGER
I’ve known you for years
now; these roads narrowed and
clattering structures sprang up
in our knowing; we moulted
our innocence together and
gravelled paths replaced the
daisy-strewn ones; still there’s
the wood-screen between and
every time you become
stranger and stranger.
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