Memories Poem by Faruk Ahmed Roni

Memories

The bright bloom of cypress vine climbs
the husk's forgotten loft.
A chest whispers of coffee bittersweet,
like twin hearts adrift in sky.

Disconsolate, I arrived at Limehouse,
Moon of Himadri resting in my palm.

Rotherhithe calls from beneath the tunnel,
leaping toward the shimmer of fish
and firmament, then an immense
garden of earthbound lotus.

Half-memory, half-history,
drifting in the hush of nostalgia under the sky of Falgun
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(Falgun, the eleventh month of the Bangla calendar)

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
"Memories" is a delicately evocative poem that blends personal nostalgia with vivid, almost dreamlike imagery. The fusion of specific places- Limehouse, Rotherhithe is with symbolic elements like lotus, moon, and cypress vine creates a sense of cultural and emotional travel across time. Its language is lyrical and atmospheric, inviting readers into a half-remembered world suspended between memory and history. The poem's gentle melancholy and sensory richness leave a lingering, introspective aftertaste.
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