''The River" - A poem by Assamese poet Hiren Bhattacharya

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Origin : Hiren Bhattacharya

Translated by Rashmi Rekha Bora Hazarika

 

The river Subansiri

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That river of my village flows

Like the humming of bees

Whose sweet streams

Captivates my vagabond soul.

 

Sometimes

Amidst the pettiness of day-to-day life

I feel: the dreamlike vastness

Of that thin river

Memory streaks flood

The blind sky.

 

That beautiful river

Of my village

Still flows

Far far away.

A portrait of Hiren Bhattacharya 

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