The Moustached Poet: A Few 'Pots' of Poems!

By Rupam Goswami

'An idea may be born from the unused fork on a dinner plate'. A few spoken lines may seem a conversation to some while they may be the source of a poet's song. And who says poetry is always written? It may arise from the lips of a mother and live forever till generations to come, sometimes in the form of a rhyme and at other, words of tradition. If there can be science in poetry, then why can there be not poetry in the laws of science? At the most concentrated ultimate end point of thoughts, everything converges towards Nature, be they the laws of science or the meters of a line. With this little cake in mouth of mind, the Moustached Poet bravely jumped into writing poems when he was in high school.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Dec 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482842234

Rupam Goswami

Rupam Goswami is currently a Research Scholar at National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. Born in 1990 in Guwahati, India, he did his Bachelors and Masters in Electronics and Communication Engineering. His first step towards embracing poetry was when he started reciting poems in Assamese at the age of eight. In 2006, he wrote his first poem, and since then, he has written 25 poems in 'horizon' of The Assam Tribune and a few in Enajori, Miracle e-zine, AECian and the Criterion. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Annual Magazine of Assam Engineering College for three consecutive academic sessions. Today, he is working for pleasure as the Editor of an international e-magazine, Guwahatian.

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CONTENTS

I, The Moustached Poet

A Potter And Some Clay

A Pair Of Truths And A Lie

My Ugly Palanquin

A Plate Of Salted Guavas

Homecoming

Daylight

Upon Meeting A Hangman: Life Amidst Deaths

Eyes

Moments

Three Chapters Of An Art

My Land, My Pledge

Winter Bloom

Diary 1999: A Page

A Midnight Dream

A Puppeteer’s Tale: Majuli Revisited

To, My God

Rebirth

An Ode To Moon

Memsaab

A Thousand Whips

Stubborn

The Dancing Mind

Not For Sale

Stepmother

26 Lines And A Woman

Seven Months After

Leaves Of Autumn

Winter, 2010

Someone

My Kite: A Little One’s Rhyme

Rains

Kaanha

The Roadside Saints

Death And Chocolate

Fascinating Rongali

Riverside Roses

The Busy Blind

Black

Pranjoy’s Saloon

A Rose For My Rose

A Cup Of Coffee

The Boy With A Crimson Muffler

The Psychopath Cook

The Dewan Of Mysore— A Tribute To Sir Mv

A Ghost’s Love

Six Seconds

C.r.o.w.

Virtual Image: Truth And Self

Camouflage: Colours Of Redemption

To everyone who appreciates poetry

May my Earth sleep in peace

dreams may not be restraints where,

to awaken Her, indulge in fouls!

THE MOUSTACHED POET SPEAKS

There isn’t adequate amount of words that I may use. I have remained an admirer of the laws of Nature written in the language of mathematics and symbols. Perhaps that indication of Nature in every beautiful truth embodied in the operation or functioning of particles, devices and calculations has been my inherent inspiration to compose a few lines to talk to myself. The Moustached Poet is not just me— he may be anyone who gives a thought about beauty and evil, who may find devilish comedy in veils of beautiful existence or beautiful kisses amidst curses of evil. The poems contained in this anthology are simple thoughts and observations coupled with mischiefs and grieves, people and gods, love and heart, country and mother. Sometimes truth seeks the hug of imagination in order to be retold. In a few poems, I have done what I have felt is a justice to the honesty in a truth by blending it with intuitive chances of occurrence of another truth in line. In others, I have produced the experience of being comical at times of loneliness, at times when the most serious gentleman around appears to be a clown (with respect in heart though). Technology makes reality bookish. Today, the