Countless Mirrors

By Pratyay Raha

The purity of fire that burns the body with the birth of words, also creates an illumination that makes poetry live, grow and bloom. at life has a rhythm of its own. Pratyay's poetry is unique in the same way, as it has a beautiful synthesis of rhythm-music-painting. – Nilimesh Ray, Teacher

Pratyay's writings have always called out to my soul. His ingenious and prolific poems are examples of true art being extant! I hope this book reaches all over the world, and it gets all the accolades it deserves...- Subham Kanjilal, Musician

Pratyay is a man of strong thoughts and emotions, which seamlessly get portrayed in his writings. His honesty reflects in his work, gives them a soul, something which is very rare to find. Warmest congratulations on his achievement - Somrita Saha, Technical Consultant

• Language: English
• Publisher: Limerick Writers Centre
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005894238

Pratyay Raha

Pratyay Raha is a creative artist who keeps searching for a different realm of existence within the cacophony of this world's perceived realities.His home country is India but he is now studying Composition and Creative Music Practice at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Though he completed his graduation in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, his passion for music, sound and creativity has made him choose this path for the next part of his life. Poetry has a very special place in his existential canvas and he tries to articulate his ideas through his music, words and poetry. Carrying a rich legacy of poetry from his hometown Kolkata (India), his writing is inspired by the path breaking works of legendary poets from India and around the world. This is his first poetry book collection and this journey will continue. His quest for a surreal world and his resistance against discrimination, injustice and exclusion will keep ringing in his poetry forever.

Book preview

I listened to the songs on Christmas night

The memories travel and the love sleeps tight

In the graves of castles and streets of the city,

Wings unfurl and feel serenity,

Their words melt into shapes of colours

Talk on creche of hopeless honours

The child with hunger sits across

Streets with a ghost that never was

The songs were made on holding tight

Keep coming back every other night

When the wailing sound of hunger grows

The Ghost in the city always knows…

Geometry

Shapes are waiting to liquidate faces

Silence allows sounds to oscillate the air

The cacophony is born next door

When the faces liquidate into shapes

Dark

The mountain of words

Grow into the cloudy sky

A river of debt to silence

Flows into a war of nothing

With every silence that is ignored

The letter box of darkness grows

They keep speaking in the dark

On how to see the summit

A triangle of love letters

Keeps ignoring the space of silence

The triangle inside the circle of words

Crumbles into a distant fear,

In spite of the cacophony,

When you looked at me at the cafe

The coffee beans absorbed the silence

And germinated in the darkness of light…

Music

The divulsion of the composer

Makes the universe scream for chaos

The sorrow of the string emulsifies

The tune of perennial rivers,

Born on the banks of uncivilised drones

The spacecraft of hollow syncopation

Talks to a landmine about photosynthesis

The breath of the leaf hears rhythm

Hidden in the hope of light

and diffusing into a tune of darkness

Being

Every word I say

Is an interjection on the space of silence

Every emotion I feel

Is an interruption to the flow of my being

I am a