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Unclaimed

Gruff summer music stirs stripped memories; a solitary voice, forged in trauma, asserts its truth from solitudes resilient core against silencing.

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I want to hear the music of summer. A music of yesteryears that is unadorned and gruff, the notes in line with the blazing morning sun, notes that feel stripped away.
A reminder to the defrost the cloud filled memories that swell and shrink with the supple lyrics, a street tell-tales survivor story around and around in an infinite loop.
A puddle is about to be desiccated, a siren that goes silent for years, a shifting sky above knows the fears of outrunning shadows, of those who always claiming me as theirs.
In summer, I dream of a tall house with empty windows, the gardens set pattern of dry flowers and trees, a dream that meanders into my memory that will inhabit later.
Music is always the wave that soars and heal, that washes everything except my voice.

Gopal Lahiri

Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, and translator with 31 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His works are published across more than 150 journals and anthologies. His poems are translated in 18 languages. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He has received Setu Excellence Award, Pittsburgh, US, in poetry in 2020. He has been conferred First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award on literature in 2024 for his significant contribution in Indian English Writing. First Prize Winner in Poetry Contest organised by 43 rd World Congress of Poets in 2024.

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