{"id":36241,"date":"2025-02-21T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=36241"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:06:03","slug":"sonnet-mondal-three-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/sonnet-mondal-three-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>&#8220;Sonnet Mondal\u2019s <em>An Afternoon in My Mind<\/em> is a young man\u2019s meditation on time, filled with the recognition that it is too late to return to childhood. It is both personal and political; concerned with questions of the spirit and of matter. The plain-spoken tone of these poems is a cover for their deeper metaphysical inquiries.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Catharine Barnett<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Sonnet Mondal<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-5f5198c042e5ccb0a32bc8b91b0dac0d ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Poet Sonnet Mondal on &quot;An Afternoon in My Mind&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1058162649?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Three Poems from <em>An Afternoon in My Mind<\/em>, by Sonnet Mondal<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36242\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercoin.co.in\/product-page\/an-afternoon-in-my-mind-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36242\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/An-Afternoon-in-My-Mind-cover.jpg\" alt=\"An Afternoon in My Mind is published by Copper Coin.\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/An-Afternoon-in-My-Mind-cover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/An-Afternoon-in-My-Mind-cover-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>An Afternoon in My Mind<\/em> is published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercoin.co.in\/product-page\/an-afternoon-in-my-mind-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copper Coin<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Rubble<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The books no longer smell of paper<br \/>\npaper no longer smells of education<br \/>\neducation loiters like withered leaves<br \/>\nand the leaves fall like tears on flames.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The rubble looks like a failed mutiny.<br \/>\nBy the tables, chairs and books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">They seem like the skeletons of a sketchy mankind<br \/>\nclattering in a slapdash rhythm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">I already feel my bones beating the drums\u2014<br \/>\nI don\u2019t recognize the beat they belong to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The poison is propagating its own agendas.<br \/>\nThe ears are being sent into a trance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Let me go now.<br \/>\nIf the rubble ever shapes up into a school again<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">000000000000000000000<\/span>and not a museum<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">call me back to this land.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34290\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-1024x55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-1024x55.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-600x32.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-300x16.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer-768x41.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/white-spacer.jpg 1101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The Biscuit Factory<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The biscuit factory<br \/>\nstill bears a baked aroma<br \/>\non its unwrapped metal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The leftovers are soil now<br \/>\nbut it failed to engulf its breath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The blurred slogans on its walls<br \/>\nare old bruises\u2014still longing to heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">It feeds on time to shed its color<br \/>\nfor the bricks to appear\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">the way a tree longs to shed its leaves<br \/>\nwithout our staring.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Souvenirs<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Sometimes<br \/>\nwe pick broken shells<br \/>\nfrom knee-deep sea waters<br \/>\nand decorate our showcases with them.<br \/>\nSometimes<br \/>\nwe give them as souvenirs to friends.<br 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