Poetry

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By

Ipsita Ganguli

Puppet

We hang

Each one of us

Every day

We hang

And we hang on

We grasp

As we gasp

yet we grasp

We grasp on

We stand

Even as we shake

We stand

and keep standing

We walk

Even as we talk

We walk

And keep walking on

Eternity

I cling on

I grasp

I clasp

I run

Eternity

As you play me

In your eternal arms

I stay

Ipsita Ganguli

Ipsita describes herself as a student of the myriad experiences that life holds out and believes that there is never any stop to learning. She is a “people’s person” and relishes connecting with a variety of lives. A quintessential Indian who rejoices in the diversity of the nation, a global citizen as the world gets smaller with the onslaught of virtual reality, and a passionate Calcuttan with all the pleasures and pains associated with this incredible city of woes and wows.

A compulsive writer she started scribbling her emotions at the back of a notebook or on a tissue paper. She was soon initiated into poetry groups and began contributing to e magazines like Learning and Creativity, Different Truths, Kaafiya.

Ipsita has coedited an e-anthology on Bonded Labour for Different Truths. Her poems have been published in several anthologies like LifeNama. Rhythm Divine Anthology, Cloudburst: A Womanly Deluge. Her work has recently feautured in the Get Bengal New Year Anthology for 2018 and Women” Day Anthology entitled 50 Shades of Eve.

Ipsita debuted with her solo compilation of poems with” Of Love, Longing and Random Pondering” which was launched in the Kolkata Book Fair 2017.