Petals & Chocolates Volume I

By Sandip Saha

""Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love."

― Anthony T. Hincks"

""Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love."

― Anthony T. Hincks"

"Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love."

― Anthony T. Hincks

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
• Release date: Jan 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9789360497934

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Poems by Sandip Saha

Oh My Dear

It was a wonderful afternoon

I saw you for the first time,

two wide open eyes as if lotus

blossomed in your calm lake of face

I looked on and on unknowingly,

you shied away your eyes from me.

I remember that night you were

dressed like a princess, you came and

greeted me with flowers waving them

around me by your petal soft palms.

Light glittered, music amazed

I got lost in a wonderful world.

You wrote so many sweet letters

addressing me with adorable names

as I had to leave you back to parents

to perform duty, you did it so well!

Now we are together

can hardly leave each other

as we travel to mountain or to sea shore.

May God bless us forever!

Beautiful 

When I wanted to love

You turned me down.

I tried hard to please

Alas! I was always neglected.

The more I tried

The more you tested,

At the end, I do not know

Whether I passed or failed.

You always play under veil,

I never get to see your face.

At times I feel so depressed

Finding you so cruel.

What a hide and seek you play,

I feel exhausted to reciprocate.

Oh Beautiful embrace me now.

Drench Me

If you drench me in love

be it like sweet dream,

as a bee has fallen in the honey

cannot raise itself.

While you touch me

let it sparkle lightning

and drive me to the fulfillment

that I otherwise never get.

As you talk to me

let it reverberate as musical tune

which can mesmerize me

forgetting the remaining world.

If you give me shelter

let it be as wide as sky,

as I want to float over it

without the fear of sinking.

Let no bondage restrict me,

no verdict rule over my bliss,

narrowness of humanity may disappear

ushering in the paradise of union.

Cradle Tales of Love 

I like to keep you deep in my heart

lest you go out of my sight,

not knowing what is happening to you

I cannot live even for a while.

I am so eager to see you smiling,

never marooned or in grief,

your every cry comes as thud to me,

I rather prefer to swallow all your sorrow.

I like your every touch,

it thrills me top to bottom,

your soft sweet face melts me down

I hardly can get up to look at any other thing.

I am addicted to your well being

avoid all the time any hardship,

your pleasure is paramount in my mind

I do not bother about my own comfort.

I have little worry about anything

if I can hear a few pleasant words from you,

I can topple the mountain

the moment I feel you love me.

Golden Girl

I saw her while walking

On the street of New York,

The crowd was on the move,

But her face got engraved

In my mind forever.

She also looked at me

Perhaps seeing me as a foreigner,

Turned her face away immediately.

In the tide of time everything perishes;

After so many years those curly

Silky hair, some of them caressing

Her cheeks, wide open eyes,

Soft looking face,

Soothing skin, bright white complexion

Still remain as fresh as ever in my mind.

My mind flies as a white pigeon,

Goes to her house, sits on her window,

Sees her sleeping on her bed

Covering herself with a bright blanket

Keeping her face out of it.

She wakes up at the flapping of the wings

Of the snow-white pigeon.

She senses the pleasure of a message,

Catches the bird that seems

To be happy to get caught by her.

She kisses the bird

With honey touch of her pink lips

As if she is whispering ‘how are you’?

A Mermaid Loved Me

I lived in a lonely island

with animals and birds

sitting at the sea shore

listening to waves’ roar.

Once a mermaid appeared

wading through the waves

she was agile and anxious

stopped looking at me.

Her face was so beautiful

a spring of affection

innocent giggling

dragged my eyes towards her.

She gradually came nearer

climbed up to my lap

caressed my face

with her petal soft fingers.

Bountiful love from her heart

pierced through my chest

I could not talk to her

nor she could talk to me.

A big wave drenched us

I enjoyed her honey touch

she embraced me tight

tears rolling down her cheeks.

Baltic Queen 

It was our first voyage.

The Baltic Queen sailed

from Tallinn, capital of Estonia

in the afternoon, the sun here

sets late unlike our country, India.

We got a marvellous sea view cabin,

Self-contained with attached bath,

toilet, comfortable two beds.

My wife and I looked out of the

big circular window, calm blue sea.

Everything gradually disappeared

only the sun in the sky and

water surrounding us, no mobile link

isolated from rest of the universe

on the surface of the earth,

at horizon the sky and sea met to kiss.

Announcement came in the room

about safety aspects, night programs

above all dinner and breakfast timings.

We were very hungry after the city tour;

went from our eighth floor to seventh,

a big dining hall, seats were reserved

hundreds of people took meal together

lot of varieties of food and fun amused us.

Going back to cabin time passed so fast

looking at the endless sea being covered

by the black dense hair of night goddess.

We fell asleep only to wake up just before dawn

small islands with peaceful huts welcomed us

hundreds of them picturesque, one after the other

the inhabitants were having boats instead of cars.

Soon the Queen docked at Stockholm, we got down

taking with us a memory we never had in life.

Pilgrimage     

Our son and I walked twenty kilometres

in a single day in Himalayas, twelve of it

was so stiff, narrow and slippery

due to intermittent drizzling,

that even those on horses were panicky

as the horsemen were unable to control

the direction of the horses on zigzag way.

You initially tried to climb on a horse

but declined when you became scary

after sitting on its back

as you heard people sometimes fall off