Bio
Gopal Lahiri is an India based bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 31 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred journals and anthologies globally. His poems are translated in 18 languages and published in 16 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. Recent Credits: Ink Sweat & Tears, One Art Journal, Poetry Breakfast, Verse-Virtual Journal, Setu Journal, Kitaab Journal, Himalayan Diary, Dissident Voice, The Piker Press, Confluence, Literary Yard, The Wise Owl Journal and elsewhere.
Gopal Lahiri
Reverie
It's a rainy evening. Some thing is shaking
in a nearby bush. The choruses of frogs, tiny
cricket lull me to sleep.
I listen in my slumber, to the eerie calls of barn
owls speaking to each other, engaging
in a slow muted dance.
The first memories with plants and reeds
and the chain of white butterflies surface,
I do not know much about roots.
Just let the dream arrive in my siesta now
and then. This is only the beginning; all such
things get translated later into a musing.