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437 · Sep 2018
Blood in art
Sukanya Basu Sep 2018
My mind fathoms what art is,
Paint in yellow or green
War is a paint
Man is a brush,
Children of art
Behold colours!
Flag rise of enemy comrades
painting the art of a body
The woman, the art, the screen, the scent, the who?
WHO, I ASK IS YOUR INSPIRATION MY FRIEND?
MY FOE?
Is it art?
Or is it the dead bodies in the end?
Man, i beg you, stop this war
Art for art, i beg you time and again
Like waves of screen, make art,
make blood of acrylic not blood of veins
Or the countries and borders and
Children in vain
Christ i beg all in art's name
Give me the glory of art,
Not the glory of fame.
430 · Sep 2016
Rainbow Quarantine
Sukanya Basu Sep 2016
Blue green and crimson red,
let them fall on the rainbow bed

Let them mix with porcelain dreams
In baskets of fruits and apples of screams
In touches of the maiden white
Running through streets in skirts

And spill them on the walls
And spill them on the greens
Let this be Satan's Rainbow Quarantine

Let this be life
in a beautiful dream.
419 · Nov 2012
Pain
Sukanya Basu Nov 2012
I believe i have got
Everything i want
Yet why is it that
I still shiver in cold

There seemed to be
Less of a thing
In my perfect life
And thus thing would be everything
That i kind of had a fight.

Here lies my pain
For what i had lost
It was a 4letter word
Which didin't have any cost
Do you feel my pain
which i have gained?
412 · Feb 2017
Margerie in a morgue
Sukanya Basu Feb 2017
Margerie Grey, some rendezvous prey
kneeling down to a box,

In my soul searching days,
was i a spectator in a glaze?

Hiding beneath a broken cross.

Margerie I remember, was 14 in such a december
when snow covered most of her spine
Her blood shot eyes and blood-less veins
Bleeding dust and chanting their names

Wouldn't it be all when books burnt with lives
And strangers cut with knives
would be long forgotten in a box?

I remember I was there
With the same pain and despair,
14 and holding and hand,

Dear Margerie,
Beauty is black,
but black is their soul,
don't stroke fire,
**** them when they are old.

Let them die with guilt and guise,
while you hold yours with memories of youth,

Margerie, tell them honey,
impatience is Satan's fruit!

Dear dear Margerie! show them your pride
show them you'll take them as your guide:

to intolerance and lies;

And a fake morgue in Paradise.

                       -Sukanya Basu
392 · Sep 2017
impromptu: part 1
Sukanya Basu Sep 2017
twenty years from september the third,
50 years from make-belief world
My shadow will lean on yours,
Don't blame your darkest depths
with skulls of cave on the northern sea,
buried beneath your ocean of fear,
a part of you, impromptu,
to face your chill.

Let me start with tales of man,
oh how man stood on sand,
and told tales of ghost, ghouls and cursed tombs;
Man feared often animals, the plague, deforestation,
or the ****** expression of a wife's gloom,

And to tell the tales from parts of the dark
where hid bats and caves,
i assure you, men are fools and they made fake stories
of escapades!

Juxtaposing their wars of glory,
seems absurd beside their horror stories
and to tales that you heard as midnight fables,
the crooked shadow and destruction of heaven

And the puppets of midnight scare
that creep to you with a note of beware,

to the graves that pass after dusk,
and the smoke from the buried Earth,

I tell you are nothing, but Human!
No one is Satan but him!
No one hides in the dark
But darkness within!

Man fears only Man, i tell you lad!
more appropriately, himself;
but is a meek, a coward , a shame of pride!
To stories they have told of ghost, ghouls and plague,
Are stories of themselves behind the crooked chase!!

Impromptu is man's middle name
And to fear him is a question of why,

Because men **** men
And hide in dark skies,

Men **** men,
And in darkness they see their own eyes.

Impromptu, bashful men,

fear is their middle name.
Sukanya Basu Nov 2023
The stale fish and the bedroom alabaster,
I quickly change into
My pajama bottoms and gills,
To slice my neck on the charcuterie board;

I glance at my watch as I turn in the grill,
This boy loves me;

Why else would he be smiling and putting truffle
On my pajamas with ruffles,
My roomates pretty baffled
About the boy in my kitchen

He was pretty with eyes that died
He asked me out on a friday night,
I chose to love instead of fight or flight,
He was the southern sea,
Oh what a glee!

Its a shame that it’s almost December,
The time I mourn my yarn
I knit a spider web for Christmas

And put my mouth to the barrel of a gun,


Maybe he could slice me kind
360 · Dec 2015
Skin on skin
Sukanya Basu Dec 2015
And that sweat dripping on from beautiful body and as i held you close, eyes burning to one another and i feel your warmth on your skin.
Making me burn,
Burning in lust.
Skin on skin,
If we must.
356 · Apr 2016
Look Alive
Sukanya Basu Apr 2016
You wake up
And look to your right,
There's a person sleeping beside
You
look to your left,
Some framed picture of a renegade,
And then you stand,
arms fixed on deserted solitude,
Looking down,
No! never taught to do so,
You sigh
Your military clothes ironed
And a note from Lily,
"Daddy come home"

And then you draw your weapons and throw the whiskey glass on the mirror,
And with blood laden hands, profligately comb your hair.
Daddy said so you murmured with closed eyes,

"Look alive young man,
Look alive."
341 · Apr 2015
Choice
Sukanya Basu Apr 2015
i have often wondered why crystals are unique.
Toućhe of thousand faces.
mankind as superior self, eradicates choices
Hath desire. hath fear.
i choose the prettiest face.
but it has a scar.
a scar from inside.
mind. unravel me.
when right is wrong and wrong is wrong,
i can't choose between right and wrong.
it feeds on my fear.
my fear to choose.
313 · Oct 2016
Winter
Sukanya Basu Oct 2016
Tenacious enough,
I waited.

The sunlight glimmered
and i saw the last of you.
As your shadow walked by
an obscene memory

Metro trains with passenger heat
Countries crying for wars beneath

Smoking some blunt
And cursing luck

And as Hachiko waited
For years till death
And forlorn and debate

Should i wait for summer
Till it's Autumn again
Shoveling your snow and pain,

Winter was your middle name.
311 · Jan 2015
Dear John.
Sukanya Basu Jan 2015
Dear John,
                  John, my dear dear one. This is my last letter to you. I know we have been through a lot, through storms and laughters, but i have loved you always. I know that you never showed it but you have loved me all along, that's what love is. The tear drops are splattered all over the page. I have been crying. You love her, she is the one. Not me. But John, I'll be happy knowing that you wanted me back. Its painful but true. I really, really love you. Deeply. You'll be mine... Forever.
                                                                                            Love always,
                                                                                                                   Jen.
291 · Jan 2016
Occassionally? Yes.
Sukanya Basu Jan 2016
Look,
I would literally give anything to forget you
The mind spasms,
The eerie loneliness mocking at me,
Every time someone takes your name.

But i don't just sit wallop, date, flirt, random kiss and push people away.

I cry and miss you.

Not always.

Occasionally?

yes.
Sukanya Basu Jul 2019
My mind isn't at ease
It has sailed from Salisbury to Atlanta to eclogue of Greenwich

What has religion defamed me into,
I seek the meaning of life;

I had a tree back in the Indian Summers of May,

It had dried and summoned poison in recluse,
It is dead.
282 · Jun 2019
Cacti
Sukanya Basu Jun 2019
In all seriousness, looking woebegone in a plight to chase hyacinth in a pile of snow,
regardless of synecdoche of your embarrassment;

In a four-wall Angry **** soul of doom,

We are laying on a pile of Cacti,
Fibonacci sequences of nature adding thorns
To miniature quilts and houses,

You dig and get more cacti,
And you bury yourself beside it.
279 · Apr 2016
When I burn
Sukanya Basu Apr 2016
When I burn,
And, I am thrown in flames,
Will you forgive my fights and screams?
When I burn,
And, the fire burns my veins,
Will you forgive me for all the stupid things?

I did or would have done
In the future non-existent,
And the lies written on my scars
Now sparkling in the sparkle reminiscent;

When I burn,
Will you forget the first hi and hello
And the shyness between us?

When I burn,
Will you forget,
The funny names we decided for our kids, at last?

When I burn,
Will you forget the awful 2 am fight?
Where we pushed and screamed,
Our Words extreme!
But how we held each other close, through out the night?

When I burn,
Will you remember,
The ring and
The vows that we said?

"Together and forever,
    Never alone,
        In life,
  And, in Death"
278 · Nov 2018
Close
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Blind men breathe talks of the night
Fingers, lips, tired eyes
Toxicity of the mind

Baffled and taken aback
Right or wrong
Not what we had

Cradling love, Fingers sore
Though so far,
Yet, so close.
268 · Mar 2018
Rinse
Sukanya Basu Mar 2018
I shut my eyes and things are red
I open them and my blithe is dead
I rinse the clock and turn it back
Give me again all that i ever had
The man i loved the friend i knew
In this cosmos happiness is few
And i cry and cry and tell myself
Will the daffodils smell again,

I shout it from the ocean below
muffled breadths and garbled low
In this ocean of fear will i survive,
will i swim up and be alive
and touch the sky
that is above all the pain
Where happiness is a merry gain
Where sonnets and jove harp a string,
I would do anything
to live my dream
and wash it clean
266 · Jul 2017
Letters from winter
Sukanya Basu Jul 2017
From ends of time and seasons quaint
i have asked "what aroused thee?"
Thy spirit of ombre game
between hope and melancholy
Summer, the mighty king of pastoral sonnets
sits on the thrones of melody
Autumn with thy fruits of farmers and gulls
And Spring! the mighty spring
the luxury of fame and splendour
Bless me with thy Poetic Muse of fame and glory
Poets of fall, poets of glee
poets of Jove, poets of eternity
mock me with thy haste
Write me through elegiac taste

i come to you with snow and king
tell me when i killed your joy,
Paris never loved Helen in any dire season
Winter never attacked the city of Troy
Nor have i burned you with glazing heat
like summer does through months
or the autumn that has interlude itself
cunningly between farewell and Jove's lust
or the spring whose beauty is unacceptable to poetic realms
and have filled human minds with fake charms
What is beauty without turmoil and hate
but also a warmth from your lover's arms?

Look at me, and tell me if i mirror you,
of human fates and glory
look at me, and i will tell you
of man and his story
Have faith in me and take in my beauty
take in the snow of your dreams
I bid adeau to your poetic realms,
For all i can try and be a hero in your escapade
i can try to wear and armour and rescue your elegiac notes
here's my tale for your poetic fervor,
here's my letter to you.
263 · Nov 2021
Dear Anna
Sukanya Basu Nov 2021
I think of meadows Anna,
We are in a time loop,
It has been the meteor
And we put in on pause;
Anna, I don't think the world is ending anymore,
I am happy with aeroplanes and magnets falling off the fridge and Kim Jong Un marching to Mars to punish a new colony,
I will no longer read papers or wait for approval,
Just for 3 minutes, you are mine Anna,
I will smile, as the grass burns along us,
We are married in death.
230 · Aug 2021
The plant that shies away
Sukanya Basu Aug 2021
Critical of rain, mud or touch,
There was a plant that shied away.
There were days when men kissed men
But this rotten plant shied away.
It's leaves would curl up whenever there was war;
I simply sighed in dismay
It wasn't a plant for all.
214 · Aug 2022
Strip
Sukanya Basu Aug 2022
My manager had to told me to keep my pants up,
I shared glances in the pub,
I flew my Aunt to Orlando
Her ashes were warm

Then I came back home,
And stripped a little more
I stripped and stripped till my skin was on the floor,

I lay here naked
With my flesh baring it's naked self
And took a look at my poetry notes

She said to bare my soul to her
I did so I did so,
Look at me, look at me!
I cry!
I did so!
213 · Aug 2019
Ducks
Sukanya Basu Aug 2019
I really like ducks

They are yellow

Ducks are cool.

I like them a lot.
213 · Feb 2019
Beneath the Cypress
Sukanya Basu Feb 2019
I shall love you after death.

When your skin won't flash the colour of your blood
I shall love you still.

When your body sheds hair and nails
And religion and faith and gender,

I will keep loving you.

When the sweet smell of your breadth fades away
And rotten deceased flesh stinks,
You will still be a beau, my love.

And I shall unite where flesh knows not
About human sentiments and trust

My body shall rest beside yours.

The sun shall not set in our heart.
211 · Jan 2022
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Jan 2022
How can police be rewarded and Satan is hell?

They both put bad men in jail
208 · Nov 2018
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Yesterday, i shot a man
I killed my wife
And buried my child

Two years ago,
I hung my dreams
And some other people
Associated with certain things

Today i sat on my mother's grave
And poured alcohol on my dad's
Dug out my girlfriend's heart
That went missing in a car crash

I snuck ******* in my notebook
And smoked blood wrapped in liver
And licked the remains of a dead rat
While trying to define lust

I dug out another ear
And chewed it alongside bread
Wonder whose grave i'll dig out
When I'm beside them
Cold and dead.
196 · Mar 2019
Dark.
Sukanya Basu Mar 2019
My thoughts are dark;

I saw people at night
I thought they might be dead

It's the living I'm scared of;

I hallucinate to the world of unknown,
The spring has succumbed to the night
Where the undead summons potions and rites;

I live in a dark box;

It floats in the Artic and i succumb to the snow

Naked self, shivered not
The boisterous cloth of human skin seemed to freeze

I blossom in a shelf where history latched to me

I sleep under a heap of hair,
I eat not by the fire
I sip cold tea.
195 · Jul 2018
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Jul 2018
hither the skies,
forearms doth mere bare
hither the blue,
his eyes everywhere
hither the lush,
hither the green,
Doth may seem keen

Thy eyes foreclose melted plants,
tracing it down as a cherub,
growing, fermenting, sun and starch
Hither thy heart a mere cherub,
growing fermenting, sunlight and green,
melted plants and melted jove
melted are eyes that bear oceans of wilderness
And depths of blue,
And death of plant,
Sings death of heart, broken and lost
little cherub amust
Thy seed poisoned with hate,
grows into a vile serpent
Sunlight doth seems away,
rain and storm brings to stay
Away with rain,
thy heart mourns to grow
Nurture the seed
It doth not need to throw
Away the pain thy leaves hide
growing yet repenting
underneath skies
who art the skies,
who art thee,
Art thou not
A man like me?
192 · Dec 2018
Breathe
Sukanya Basu Dec 2018
What are you looking for?
What are you searching my friend?
Look at us as stand at the edge of the world's end

Will you close your eyes and jump today?
Or will you wait, and keep waiting
For a lover, or a long lost friend

This is end, dear one,
This is the one last chance
Let us keep falling and falling
And falling in love,
With this one last dance.
183 · Jan 2019
Autumn
Sukanya Basu Jan 2019
Dark
Empty
I don't prioritize loved ones anymore
Ruckus of a poetry I suppose
No muse,
No rhythm.
Shan't write about the lovely spectre
Of a yellow, green and basket of dead, dried
I beg your pardon is your idea of celebrating beauty , the chant of the dead?
For I, like Autumn
Beneath the tree
Dead like leaves
Falling through eternity.
Dar
178 · May 2018
Test paper
Sukanya Basu May 2018
I always imagined myself drowning.
I know you'll probably think i'm deranged, clearly depressed or challenged by critical movies.

Clearly my self-worth drives a delusional north and becomes cringe-worthy while trying to express myself.

But i just want to drown.

The sort of numbness when your fingers tremble, a psychological torment at the thought of living forever under waves and trying to re-construct impossible situations where everything works out fine.

But i just want to drown.

Ever tried to love him when he walks past you?

But i clearly don't want that.

Like i said,

I just want to drown.

-Sukanya
178 · Oct 2018
Teleport
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
Throw me in the bowl
Cereal killer,
Mix me and soul
Pour the milk and tears,
Instead of running and running and running and running
Nowhere
Teleport
Teleport
Teleport
Sky runner, teleport.
Juvenile, little crime, mix me in the bowl
And teleport me
to home.
177 · Nov 2018
Son Down
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Son, your mom is dead son,
Son, it's time I shot you too
Son, love isn't okay
But what am i supposed to do?
Son, I tried to fix my tie
Son, Sonny boy look the sky is grey
Son, Bid your gold fish goodbye
Son, Tell Maurice you cannot stay
Son, Tell Oakley that games aren't bad
His parents lie to each other in their marriage
Son, I have to leave your mother,
I'll be leaving with blood on my palms in a carriage
Son, life isn't easy,
And in this dusky town,
I'm gonna let your fragile body slide under the dirt,
By the time the sun sets down.
174 · Jul 2019
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Jul 2019
I'm terrified

There is no escape

Salem Witch trial

Burnt me at stake
164 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Jan 2019
And I'd be sorry a million times and bow down
I'd whiplash my soul and not blink a tear down my spine;

My love, hath thy lips near close to mine
In thy cold grave, I'd hold you a million years when the world summons you to die.
159 · Sep 2019
Himitsu no
Sukanya Basu Sep 2019
There is no postman
For my himistu no letters

Secretly I fold the page into two halves
And neatly write about the trees and the stars,
Sometimes about berries and sprouts
Sometimes how you got lost in the crowd;

I have written my Himitsu no letters
And kept them folded in the hole between the walls,
I know you will never receive them.

Yet, I have written how much I love you,
Below them all.
157 · Jun 2018
Brown
Sukanya Basu Jun 2018
and abase,
solidarity though an endless crowd
appeals and bank notes, solidarity at war,
borderline of men,
solidarity and cards,
economic feuds and appeals to be granted.

Bow down, fix the tie,
close your ears , shut your eyes

give birth to war and womb the seed
of solidarity, frowns and greed.
155 · Jun 2022
Brave
Sukanya Basu Jun 2022
I don't think being brave means not having any fear.
We are human, fear is survival instinct.
However, I think being brave is being afraid,
Yet not giving up on it.
154 · Jun 2019
Run
Sukanya Basu Jun 2019
Run
You are fifteen,
You can run

You can keep running
Into green fields and Sunshine

You don't need to look at death, politics
Or your untied shoe laces

The movie is black and white
It's 1989
153 · Sep 2021
Adjectives
Sukanya Basu Sep 2021
Your adjectives are
arrogant, abusive and arsoholery;

My adjective is
Amused.
153 · Apr 2018
Enchantress
Sukanya Basu Apr 2018
'Tis composed in free verse,
nay more free than my soul
Eloquence of a dead man
spring of a deer at heart,

Mind of a frosty evening,
More eligiac than the war of our breadth
I'll break to you what summer is,

The shine of a crafty shadow of a bark
wearing ruby in your reflection,
the hollows of the leaves and bits of light from evening
joust in a green robe of poetic imagination,
the kind of bliss i imagine thinking of you

Think of spring music in the back,
A certain B with a certain A
A certain happiness,
like ripples of the stream,
My enchantress in white,
Clad in pain.
Smiling yet dead,
drenched in rain.
152 · Jan 2019
Remi
Sukanya Basu Jan 2019
Remi may shoot you,
she had sown bladder with lungs
And paraded through a wedding

Remi digs up corpses and dances with them
She climaxes when poked with a thorn on her eyelid stiff

Remi knows how to laugh.
She is beautiful,
Remi looks at women and licks their skin

Remi had been in love
She had made love to wolves and painted her face with knives

She strips her clothes
And drips in blood
swallows her pain
Lifts her chin up
Remi calls Remi's name

Remi sold her heart in an autumn sale.
Sukanya Basu Aug 2022
Malini, your skin is beautiful
Like summer skies beneath clouds,
Do not scrub your skin
You are my kin,
Make your mother proud.

Leena, sing Vande Mataram in a pub in Illinois,
Be bold when men take you for granted,
You are your mother's soul
And someone I always wanted

And say, who your father,
Your mother and your blood,
Say father is a role
Not decided by the gender
Father is a shelter,
Father is home.
Father is a man of your achievements
Father is the man of the house,
Say my mother is my father,

She's a lion, not a mouse.
150 · Feb 2018
The pool is red
Sukanya Basu Feb 2018
i see my prey through a glass door
i feed on her eyes,
i feed on her memories,
i feed on her smiles.

My prey turns into a ghoul
By midnight her body hangs by the ceiling
And blood drips down her spine

the blood drips on the floor
her eyes ***** roll down the wood
her tongue hangs by a thread
i confess my love for my prey

the fly sticks to the door
the buzz makes me happy.

The ***** magazines lie on the floor
with cover girls of blood

i write a poem and jump into the pool
i swim in her bile
and drink her corpuscles
i play with her ***** hair
and make love to her dead soul


By morning she is alive,
she sleeps beside her night
And there is blood no more


By night again,
i wait till ten
when her blood is on the floor.
144 · Dec 2022
Lament
Sukanya Basu Dec 2022
To this day,
Keeping my scorpions as witness,
The shovels and the little dead girls from my uncle’s basement,
I love lamenting for my loss;

It is the truth that I bask not in Love’s glow,
I bask in death of you.
143 · Jun 2018
Mother to a screen
Sukanya Basu Jun 2018
And born to lies,
electricity, bills and tables with mice,
womb of discretion, generation of hate
Nine months of drunk vision
and life time of pain
generation, revelation, theory of none,
Mother of a crime,
Felony named the son,
behind the bars of learning,
and teen years of drugs,
mother hood of whom,
is a question a must
Pain to a screen and pain to a heart
pain to thoughts, generations apart,
cash, and cold, money and gold,
lies and hate, savings and fate,
mother of a few,
birth of a crime,
generation of hate,
irony of time.
141 · Apr 2019
paper boats
Sukanya Basu Apr 2019
Blank sheets of blue and white,
Shall I make a billet doux or a kite?
On with scissors and knives;

I know not whom to undress to
One by one, stripping my skin,

Built a roof, a house it seems

Little child,
score of ten,
help me to set to sail again

Patch on my eyes
A knapsack for my pretty coats
Help me set sail, paper boats,

Help me set sail
To find my home.
137 · Apr 2018
Oh piano
Sukanya Basu Apr 2018
Oh piano, the birth of my happiness in your tune
Your verses of wild music
drench me in joy
I feel love, death, screaming like a native found freedom

All i beg is the everlasting soft touch of your skin
Oh piano!
the music you let in
132 · Oct 2018
He says
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
He says it's good to start a war
He says it's past three
He says it's untimely to fall in love
He says it's not just me
He says to throw myself at men
He says it's an act of *****
He says that he loves me not
He says my ******* are sore
He says I laid other men in bed
He says I lie a lot
He says to cut my womb in two
He says that my baby rots
He says and i listen to him
It's an act of cat and mice
I'm just a part of his game
Where he throws the dice
Sukanya Basu Aug 2019
I have unwilled myself to see what I should have
And yet chose to see what I shouldn't,
It is my choice really and it burns down to common ashes
of disillusionments and a make shift place of perpetual tiresome
Endeavours

Mounting to nothing.

I have gazed at stars and other common misinterpretations of love and set myself to dry out what's left of my individuality;
Upon star-gazing and eventual ruination,
My packed backs from eight to three have failed me to decipher
What life can provide me with;

I have misused time and shrunken my perspectives to fit in a square thatch that provides no shelter;

Star gazing has left me, point blank.
127 · Apr 2019
circle
Sukanya Basu Apr 2019
It's a red one

It draws a boundary

It covers my head, shoulders and shoes

But no matter what I do,

Whether I go around it

Or scream aloud,

It all comes back to you.
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