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187 · Jun 2022
Ash
Sukanya Basu Jun 2022
Ash
I hope when I turn around,
I can feel your face,
You can tell me when things are not okay.

But when I did,
I was holding air.
I hope I turn into Ash.
184 · Aug 2021
A Writer's Guilt
Sukanya Basu Aug 2021
I thought I put up a tent,
I racked up chains, chards and Chopard
It was inside of beast,
I Flared,
Flabbergasted, I knew there was
An indecent stare,

I put the candle and the pen in his pancreas,
And wore what was left of a man,
A writer is a friendly beast,
Beast he heard and he ran.

I Write of Sonia the Mexican peddler
Of two counts of forgery and what not,
A writer's guilt is that he forgets man,
And he becomes the God.
A writer's guilt is Bible's trouble
To determine a Lord.
183 · 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.
178 · Feb 2022
Box
Sukanya Basu Feb 2022
Box
Honey, when I am buried in a box,
I want you to tell my teenage tampons,
Black tees and socks;
Tell her that she's not dead,
She is buried in pain
Tell her write on a paper
She has a name
Honey, when I am dust in the board,
I want you to know that chicklets fly after they are sore,
My mother said ten and 5 scores ago
Your body is fine
You need to dance on the floor;
Honey, when I am cat litter on the shelves,
Pay no heed to the friends that I cried for and helped,
They played their highschool drama
And didn't pick up my call,
They will give no **** about you
When your grandson is tall;
Honey, I am not here anymore
I hope you know there are plenty of fires
And plenty of doors,
Dead and decay I may rot and smell,
But honey,
The people who betrayed
They are all going to hell.
178 · 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.
178 · Jan 2022
Dead king
Sukanya Basu Jan 2022
My king rules a cacti
His subject is as prickly as he
He goes on wars every night and day
He calls his enemy as "me".

The reason he is dead
Isn't tyranny or hate
And it isn't the fall of monarchy
I assure thee so;
My king lies dead
Of his saddened ill fate
He planted a tree and as true it can be
It grew legs and walked out of the door

What good is a king,
If he can't love anything
As little as a tree and not any more.
177 · Jul 2023
Mess
Sukanya Basu Jul 2023
I clean my room 10 times a week
Photos of my childhood and linen sheets,

Vacuuming its and bits here and there
But there's still dirt everywhere;

I try to save myself but I'm stuck,
I wake up inside a garbage truck.
176 · Oct 2018
Adultery of a teenage whore
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
Did you cut your hair, who are you?
Did you run from bad man,
bad man is coming after you
Did you wear your socks
Hide
Bad man i giggle
bad man will take you away
Did you Cut your veins?
Are you sad?
Are you dead?
Bad man where are you?
Is your face covered in a sack?
I hide no more
Like my flaws and **** my flesh against the wall
Butcher my eyesight
Flies, smell and the touch of bad man
**** my love.
176 · May 2022
Telepathy
Sukanya Basu May 2022
I have heard of women
Who bear not children,
They bear dreams and swords;

My mother knew she gave birth to a Viking,
But nonetheless, a sad Viking.
She washes her face as she goes for wars,
Tell her, let her know good sir,
Butterflies are not her enemy.
172 · Dec 2019
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Dec 2019
You were covered in snow
And that is the last time I met you
The first was a farce
You pretended was the truth;

Now you dangle in the cold
And I in your dice
You died for me

I waited for you in the ice.
171 · Oct 2021
I tried
Sukanya Basu Oct 2021
You may think that I am not enough,
but look around you,
Is anything enough?
Is it a deaf man's problem if he cannot hear your pain?

I'll pick up myself again, and paint your image blue,
I will pursue other forms of torments
And if it makes you happy,
I'll fall in love with you again
And cry about not being enough until you smile

Can it be clearer than a day that I write to me
And complain about trivial things
Like how it used to be?

Death is trivial, I can cry about death,
But I cannot cry enough about possibilities,
I wish it had been a hassle or a disaster,
But it was beautiful

By god, I say, how can I replace you?

Didn't I try enough?
Didn't I?
169 · 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.
169 · 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
168 · Jul 2021
Your face is melting
Sukanya Basu Jul 2021
I do not know why people follow rules,
They stand in the traffic amongst the red and green,
Like they are a **** reunion.
I lost my cat amongst the red,
The abhorrent hide and seek game of floundering.
My mother tied my braids,
My father marked my grades,
I cannot feel emotions.

Yet, I see your melted face and I cradle you in my *****,
Are tears gasoline?
167 · Jul 2021
ukiyo
Sukanya Basu Jul 2021
And now I am in the floating world;
I dare not say where my talons reach
On a wasted bar in an
upscale town
Or an alley where Fatima found her treasures
In the long lost desert of the warm hole,
Warm hole, I guess the intoxicated parental hugs and childish glee,  
I look up from the clouds,
To the endless possibility of the diamonds
That often singers wrote about.

I say, dear sir,
Who am I to stare at her face,
Who am I, to debate regarding astronomy
To appreciate what the clouds offer,
To gaze at endlessness.

To look down at earthy abrasion,
To scratch a letter about the sky,
I am no Euclid,
I cannot calculate severity.

That begs me to differ
That,  people plainly cannot deduct  
signals about lost thought,
The algorithm of pain.

Poetry begs of loneliness despair and the will
to obligate any will to look at the sky
As only diamonds of beauty,
I too am no exception;
Alas, to bring a clown to an opera
Is no different than associating pain with love.

/I too am in love/
/I too was in love/

And certain beings of certain genders
Makes you feel whole,
The last ingredient of banana bread,
the parmesan of a Michelin plaza

And yet towards the end,
all the love come to a halt,
and no ingredient can complete it whatsoever.

Heraldry: would you rather be the next karate kid?
What is the conclusion of your armory,
to be in love
as always is a momentary pause in the general affairs of society?

Have you related to a succulent plant?
Well, I cannot,
I am but a group of the ant farm,
boring away in close proximities of career-oriented blabber,
Naysay, it is not culture nor an obligation,

I simply do not have the courage to fly.

I lack in art and imagination,
As a poet, it is quite a blasphemy,
But dear Lord would you call a layman a poet
If he dare not risk beyond boundaries of nomenclature
You call her a fraud,
when she dare write and not live
when she dare speak and not do,
She is not a poet, good sir,
She is a prisoner of propaganda.

I do not remember days and years,
but it was once in July,
The sun was setting,
And calling over to take the place in the night sky,

Needless to say, it was an abrupt end with no closure,
but she took it out on the sun
Whilst her muse ended things at the barrel of the gun.

Truth be told,
I am sick of ballads,
I am sick of subway seats
I am sick of occupancy.

I dare you to sing a rhyme
Which you sang with him behind
And hush your tears,
because you bestowed the music in his grave.

I am angry,
I did the same!

Well, enough of angel tears,
I take back my sun,
I take back the sky,
I take back the dreams!

I am ready to see sunsets.
166 · Apr 2022
I'll meet you on Thursday
Sukanya Basu Apr 2022
It's flattering to know;
I would rather talk about varsity leagues
And male machismo;
The leaves, my dead imagination and about war,
And yet channel my thoughts to events where my burial would be the centre of a clown's birthday,
I wonder who ever are clowns in a Clowns birthday?
Impoverished thoughts,
My writer is fantasized dead,
Might be for you to look at me once,

In my imagination you stroke my hair,
In my imagination, you call me yours.
166 · May 2022
Untitled
Sukanya Basu May 2022
If only I knew,
My house was burning,
I was delusional,
If only i knew.

The truth was I cried not about your smile,
Nor your kisses on my forehead,
I shed my tears for a little me.

She sat on a pyre and burnt herself.
165 · Nov 2021
Dear Anna (2)
Sukanya Basu Nov 2021
Your soul matches the colour of the perfume that my mother wore,
I now know how it feels to be dead, it is just wind kissing your face and you are stuck on a lonely boat,
I thought I would meet you but your body lies cold
In my memory, you're still blushing and your red tshirt is pretty bold
I guess I take my journey alone as I came empty
I heard your sound in the trees above
And to me that was plenty;
My time on Earth is now a memory and a foam of milky stars,
You might not be here with me,
But I know that you ain't far.
164 · Jan 2022
Sad girl from Dakota
Sukanya Basu Jan 2022
She is sad and she is in my trunk
I'm smoking cigarettes wrong,
Maybe I am drunk
Miss girl from some sad place thought she could play
She got shot in the day
163 · Oct 2019
I am a man
Sukanya Basu Oct 2019
I break down and my hands shake,
I am a man,
I breathe nicotine.

I am a man and clench my fists,
I drink like a mad broker who lost his deal.

I am a man and I cannot cry,
My masochism refrained me to do so

I am a man and I lost my pride
I' trapped in a woman's body for years now

My ******* say I lie
And my hips are made for birthing and wide

I'm a man who lost his woman
And he dug his grave last night.
163 · Sep 2023
Choking
Sukanya Basu Sep 2023
And gasping for air,
It is a polluted wasteland.
The way you unbutton that ghastly shirt
and sigh along your neck tie

Good sir, Do you want to step out for some air?
Cats and Dogs are dead everywhere

I push and pull
You pull and push
You had me inside a 5x5 cage,
Honey,
I wanted to die of old age;

I tied the tie in a loop
and forced fed you a month-old soup

You choked, I gasped
I developed a rash
Your face became blue
I love you too

And yet, when I cut your tie
There were tears in your eyes,
A story about Wanton boys and flies;

You broke my cage and let me free
But kept in you
A part of me.
162 · Apr 2022
Standards
Sukanya Basu Apr 2022
I blame my father,
For carrying me in my arms,
telling me how to walk
And showing me how to love;
It is scary how my set of men
Terrifies me when I talk;
Love is a false situation.

I blame my sister
For playing with me in Indian Afternoons,
Riding carousel
Showing me how not to be Epicurean,
All I found in my friendly mud
Was I;
And none else

I blame my mother
For teaching me ways
How to sing Do Rae MI,
How to do good
Tell me it's a lie,
I am but a Villain for Daffodils.

I expect naught;
I cry in my lobby.
161 · 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
160 · Sep 2021
Maybe I will
Sukanya Basu Sep 2021
And now it's raining,
What a perfect day to ****!
I have washed the blood
With my blackened eye
An wrote you off the will;

I hope that you find amusement
When I fight your battles
I'll keep shut, bow my head
And I promise I won't tattle

It's a shame on a rainy day
To **** men and joy
I hope I can replace him
With another boy toy.
159 · Jul 2018
testimony of carnations
Sukanya Basu Jul 2018
Give me sunflowers
Oh! where hath it been
It's been summer all this while
and my heart seem keen

For the yellow and the joy
And seeds of green
Where art sunflowers
Why art being mean?

Ah the carnations! The innocence,
where the wind,
******* to thy heaven's door
The meadows the green!

Oh my heart cries for such beauty
And in thy beauty it lies,
The pain, the sorrows, the unhappiness it cries!

Oh my poor heart,
hush now may,
Close your eyes,

It shall be summer one day
Sukanya Basu Dec 2019
" You look unhappy Mary, the job, the son, the life,
   Your medications seem wary, did you go outside and fly a kite?"

" My son had forgotten me Doctor, He left the other day with his wife,
  He had paid my debts but not my love and complained about strife,
  My only child and love of my life";

" What of your husband, I heard he won the lottery the other day,
   Bought a car, and good plumbing all with his pay?"

"My Husband loves me no more, money is his spouse
He butters the bread to our dog and talks to his house,
My life is bitter and yet I shine in gold,
I want roses and love
But "Mother I'll visit next time"
Is what I get told,
Mark my words doctor,
Give me medications no more;
I want my son, and my husband and my grandchildren
When I am old and I'm sore,
Tell them to fake it till I am weary and I die,
I don't want to live in gold and bear for my soul to cry,
I beg you doctor tell them to visit me, I'll give them gifts, I'll buy!
Tell them to visit this afternoon, I'll bake them apple pie"
158 · Sep 2018
I'm fine
Sukanya Basu Sep 2018
The koi fishes swim in drains
The government plans sweet revenge,
The blue skies turn into grey
I'm fine.

I have lied and lied all through
From teachers to friends anew,
I'm like a dead captain handling the crew,
I'm fine.

When my parents abandoned me
And the cat cried symphony,
I looked over you grave and said to myself
I'm Fine.

One day my prince would come,
The day will start with sun,
He would whisper in my ears
"That's a lie."
157 · Jan 2019
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Jan 2019
And to conquer, is to fade
For acceptance, is to bow
Human adversities are but seances of ego burning against one another,

I hope your hatred will burn through the night and shelter my memories. A dormant volcano nonetheless is but the emptiness of
presence, rage your thoughts against me for I am left with nothing but grievances.

My torch shall burn no more.

For in hate my love,

We unite.
154 · Mar 2019
From me
Sukanya Basu Mar 2019
To You,

I hope I'd write poetry,
Menace,
I hope I'd find love in an endless crowd of you and I;

Chasing each other,
In endless circles like a time loop,

Like Aurora Borealis;
Filled with fireworks and colours

Stuck in the Artic Glee

Would you bring flowers for me?
Sukanya Basu May 2019
Lately, with the epicurean taste of life,
I have failed to realise the invasion of loneliness,

Catastrophic humiliation regarding pushing
Through the bristles of life,
I have failed to achieve the medicinal impoverished Mentally stable
Fully functional **** Sapien;

The psychological impact of a dying moth inside a glass full
Of flowery decor
I have failed to notice the nectar of life.

Man is no more gregarious;
It's an off beat 60's Chevy with rotten music
154 · Jul 2019
666
Sukanya Basu Jul 2019
666
unzip my flesh and trace my lips
hath Lucifer
I give you this;

genteel hands that choke my neck
tongue in ears
how could I forget

your lustful eyes
that I would kiss

unlock my heart,
666
152 · May 2021
Quiet
Sukanya Basu May 2021
Shhh!
We are doing nothing but dancing,
Like mad Men out in the open,

We are dancing with our bitter selves;
You have a black eye,
I have short sleeves

And nothing compares our mad dance
But a quiet room and one more chance.
152 · Nov 2024
She is asleep
Sukanya Basu Nov 2024
Hush! for she might wake
I just hit her head with a rake
Tiptoe till my midnight turns to dark,

I just told her that it's her mind
She is not running out of time
She is not the two by two in Noah's arc

She kept telling me he is good
She's adamant and rude
She's acting like her mother, she is blind

I told her time and time
Men are sick and unkind
Yet she kept talking about him,
she isn't smart.

So now that she lies dead,
I can look for the winter ahead
Summer was about him and so was the fall

I killed myself for it all.
Sukanya Basu May 2019
In times, I wonder where it had flown
In lakes or gleams
In seas or beyond;

Jamaican tail and feathers blue
My daughter had a pet cuckoo

She made a little spur of glee
And sounds that hurt my knees
My daughter adored the scorned bird
Her love for the creature was rather absurd

The fretful bird paid no attention to me
Until that night in the winter of '93
When she curled her feathers and looked at the sky
And stared at me with mournful eyes

She died that night and and saw through me
My memories of my child when she was three
151 · Dec 2021
Mujer
Sukanya Basu Dec 2021
In the light of the war,
I am woman of all;

Woman, mahila, mujer;
This is more than your nephew
Who came out of your aunt,
There are artistic chemistry
More epiphany under the sun;

My hip bones are strong
But so is my mind,
You have unleashed a beast
I won't be shunned, I won't be kind;

You have released the Kraken
She comes with claws
Yet she always saves her newborns
From other Kraken Jaws
149 · May 2019
Parallax view and hand guns
Sukanya Basu May 2019
Epicurean boisterous lad,
Had an animal farm in the late 90's
Had windy hair and dusty gloves

Used to shoot in daddy's farm,
Sheryl's ***** bottle she had shared with men
And a couple of animals

He had a parallax view
And the patriarchal buzz
And, a moustache with whipped cream from the dairy farm

He missed his shot,
Mary
When she walked past him without a clue
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148 · May 2019
Untitled
Sukanya Basu May 2019
Aren't we all a little foolish?
We went back in denial to lose it again
Aren't we all a little needy?
Wrapping arms and memories
Leaving by boarding a train

Aren't we all a little in love?
Having fetishes to dance in the rain

Aren't we all a little insane?
To want things that cause us pain

~Sukanya Basu
147 · Feb 17
Water colours
Sukanya Basu Feb 17
I wish it could be simple as that,
An old man wearing a hat

And yet, I am stuck with his pension funds,
And the way his sons and daughters run;

Like an old age home stuck with seizures,
I like my paints measured,

My skin itches, it cannot set me free
Like water colours are meant to be.

I like control and precision,
Just like their parent’s decisions.
146 · Sep 2021
Words.
Sukanya Basu Sep 2021
She smokes three packs a day
And her hair is not meant for little kids

She has blue and red
And a bald spot

She tries to be the man of the house
And yet she is pointlessly barking at
Her neighbour's dog

I hope she fits in her jacket.
145 · Oct 2021
Settle
Sukanya Basu Oct 2021
You aren't him,
But you are you.

When I'm gone,
I'll pray for this compromise;
I'll pray that I get to live again,
In the heartbreak hotel,
And promise myself lies;

I love you for you,
This poetry does not belittle
I chose you,
I did not settle.
Sukanya Basu Jul 2019
I'll never again find a love so consuming,
Like swallowing pills and rainbows and paper clips;

I hope to find my grave in a playground;

I hope I can fly kites, in the storm
With little hints of sunshine, blue and ice
Precarious green ribboned dolly,
Have I lost my mind?

I'll never find a love so consuming
Come may the sands of time
145 · Mar 2019
1780
Sukanya Basu Mar 2019
When the sun was pale

And the war was dead

I'd probably sip the morning ritual and find my ecstatic self

Complaining about the devil in the middle of Times square

I'd wear funny shoes and red hair

And sit still by the black water
I'd jump if I could
I'd run in the glass
I'd talk to myself

I'd dance in pretty skirts
145 · Oct 2019
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Oct 2019
What have I come to?
A dearth of longing's
An absolute catastrophe that I'd give birth to melancholy:
And absolute failure of a sheep in a tutu
And regress and turmoil that Miss Penny Shelly could compose
Magic:
A heart warming missing and yada yada nature with yada yada poetry and a he and a who and spring:
Poetry could mean anything

Or so they think.
'd
144 · Aug 2019
Kaboom
Sukanya Basu Aug 2019
Kaboom!
I shoot myself
Kaboom!
Here we go again

In the head Henry,
In the head
144 · Oct 2018
maurice
Sukanya Basu Oct 2018
The sun was shining,
the leaves were sparkling through the open window
Sylvia finally looked at Jove
Lee-Roy had bought fruit
And Jane the apollo-servant



In a far away land where cherry trees lit up villa,
Maurice shot himself.
143 · Apr 2021
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Apr 2021
Maybe you and I are dead,
Stranger!
We are dead indeed,
The world has stopped breaking into wars
And the pretty don't lie anymore,
You and I are dead;
But I ever never felt this love stronger
Than when we are together in our graves.
143 · Oct 2019
To Melpomene
Sukanya Basu Oct 2019
To Melpomene,
I owe you stars
I'm sorry that I fell in love
I'm sorry that I miscounted my ways
And adhered to the blissful days;

I parted ways with grief and shame
And fell in love yesterday
I fell in love and stepped in vain
I am now a man in chains

Rousseau forgive me for this muse,
I fell in love and that's no excuse
I am ashamed of my silly pride
I locked my yesterday during search and hide

In an attempt to ease my grief
I stepped into an era of sleep
And now I wake and look at light
Love is faux pass, no more mine to keep.
142 · Nov 2018
Untitled
Sukanya Basu Nov 2018
Do you ever wonder whether you are sleeping
With the wrong person on the right side of the bed
Tossing, turning, telling lies
Pretending to be alive when you are dead
Pretending to paint love in red
Do you ever wonder if she is not the one to love
But you don't like things rough
So you let go and pretend it's alright
She loves me, let me hug her,
But for me, it's a might
You ever come across lovers
Whom you aren't meant to be with
Scared to speak loud
Or open eyes to feel it
Do you ever wonder
Why you lie to yourself
Do you ever wonder
142 · Jul 2020
Pendrive
Sukanya Basu Jul 2020
I could be a shaman, and imagine my wife making pancakes
And little children playing around with hand-made kites;

Truest behind dreams that interpret our living,
I have been scrammed inside a 7/9 metal jar
Where the only living creature swimming around
Is imaginary and I call her hope;

People do not advertise money;

And I hoped they did!
Life would be a whole lot easier.
142 · May 2021
Metropolitan Man
Sukanya Basu May 2021
He had a car that made his mother proud,
A metropolitan man, a man of dreams!
The women had their phonebooks out,
And their legs well below their skirt,
The metropolitan man shook their hands
And bought them drinks for what it's worth,
His dentist said that he'd retire soon
For his smile was **** pretty,
The Metropolitan man had a solid plan
He would rule over the metropolitan city!

We heard his wife was under care,
She fell down the stairs,
how unfortunate they said;
Well, you and I know they are lying,
She was a prisoner in the metropolitan cave.
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