# The Candle in My Dream

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**Author:** Amanita Sen
 **Pages:** 48 **Year of Publication:** 2012 **Price:** 
Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-038-3 (9789350450383)

_**About the Author**_
 Amanita Sen holds an M.A. in English Literature. Her poems
were featured in a short experimental film, _Paramesh_ which was screened at the
Kolkata Film Festival (2011) and BYOFF (2012). She was cast as the sole character
in the film as well. She is married and lives in Kolkata.

_**Teaser**_

_The Blue Torment_

Suddenly there is a wall behind my back,
 With colours strong, Each unidentifiable
from the other.

I recognize one, though.
 That of torment – sheer blue. Intoxicably blue So blue
that you can die in its arms.

I panic, I’d rather be nowhere
 And then I start running Where my eyes can see, 
Where my legs can carry, I keep on running Till I reach the horizon.

And then I pause to breathe.
 My existence here is a dotted one. Colours would rather
chase a canvas Not a dot like me.

I am safe here,
 Ready to merge with the oblivion.

No, not quite yet,
 Being nowhere is not easy.

_**Contents**_
 A Nightly Truth / 9 My Conscience and I / 10 An Auburn Sunset / 
11 The Journey / 12 The Delete Key / 13 Kolkata Winter / 14 The Bold Font / 15 To
the Poet / 16 The Whispering Night / 17 The Story of the Lone Hair / 18 Liplock /
19 New Pages of Life / 20 To Love / 21 My Verses / 22 Silence / 23 Desire / 24 Farewell
Love / 25 June Calcutta Rains / 26 Ode to Womanhood / 27 The Candle in My Dream /
28 Drying to Death / 30 The Blue Torment / 31 Song of the Waves / 32 Wordless Conversations/
33 My Pen / 34 I Wonder / 36 The Home of Poetry / 37 The Path of Faith / 38 Venomous
Stings / 39 Solitude / 40 Leaving / 41 Triumph of Beauty / 42 What Life Is Not About/
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