Special Posts on the Second Death Anniversary of AKS Falling Today, 28th November 2013
AKS wrote very few poems, and never sort of bothered to get them published. We are reproducing today as separate posts three love poems that we have been able to locate. While two poems are written back-to-back on a piece of paper and are simply titled as ‘Poem (1)’ and ‘Poem (2)’. The third poem is just untitled. The dates of composition have been mentioned, which are being reproduced here below the each poem. It is, however, possible that one or two of these love poems, had got published in a journal ‘KAVITA INDIA’, which used to brought out by the late Prof. A C Sahay of Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, one of the senior colleagues of AKS at Langat Singh College, Muzaffarpur–AKSCENTRE
Poem
(1)
Crowning glory of life it was
To have found you come like a dream
Into the parlour of my desire,
To have filled it and furnished it.
To have to be at only one place,
To wish to be there when one has to be here,
The compulsion to be noble and honourable,
The daily business of living and the still,
Regular chiming of the time,
The frozen angels on the mantlepiece–
Endless are the waiting hours, endless
The tasks and responsibilities
Before I could attend to you wholly
In the parlour of my desire.
(Composed on 6 June ’89)
-Arun Kumar Sinha
Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha Centre for Literary and Social Understanding 