Dhiman Barman

Date of Publish: 2026-02-21

 

A Few poerms by Dhiman Barman

(1)

Treading on the Khaki Letters

Arrives in my city

like an expert guerilla –

The spring

 

For whom masquerading

Is the most ancient science of Earth

 

The red ammunition

Has burst in its branches

Whose strength of explosion of silence

 

I am a penniless cobbler

Has since been mending

The same pair of shoes

 

Whose owner one day

would tread over the khaki letters

and fetch me the arecanut

from the tallest tree

from the entrance of the last walker of the afternoon

 

before that

how many failed ambush

 

(2)

The Decrepit Letter

The letter

That was certain not to arrive

Still being waited

with a thin ray of hope

Arrived

 

By this time

All the letters turned illegible

Still

Where there had been

some heartiest presence

to be able to read

 

Though could not exactly fathom

What news was there

One news was found

To feel the warmth

In that decrepit letter

 

(3)

Broken Illusion

Taking part in the silent prayers

For the salvation of the departed souls

I too started considering myself as dead

 

In the sting of the hornet

That entered into my room

Failing to understanding the difference between the window and the sky

I did finally realise

 

I still have a life

To be able to feel the pains

 

(4)

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Is time a long measuring tape

To keep measuring length of life

 

Is time a weighing balance

To keep measuring the weight of fame

 

Is time the watchman of a museum

To keep watch on the dust lying on monuments

 

No one asked these to anyone

 

The words have started moving upstream turning into air

The words regurgitated by cloud in the form of water

Appears to be circling in a water cycle

To let free the words

To make the speaker out of wit with a barrage of question

This brief advertisement is put up

Seeking for a tongue

 

All poems have been translated fromAssamese into English by Bibekananda Choudhury

 

About the poet

Dhiman Barman is an eminent young poet in Assam. Born in Pathsala, he is an Assistant Audit Officer by profession. He has been writing poetry in leading lietrary magazines of Assam. He has published seven collections of poetry so far. These include- Nirobe Nijoke, Ramanyasbador Antim Drisyhyot, Mori Jabaoto Paro, Iman Nirobota Iman Botah, Bhokar Lipire Likha, Hakuti Samrat and Aha Saon Dio.