# The Birds Fly in Silence and other poems

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- Published: 2016-06-17T18:34:12+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Madhu Kailas[⌊WP_20160617_12_03_24_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WP_20160617_12_03_24_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 108 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 250 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
126-7 (9789350451267)

_**About the Author**_
 Madhu Kailas is the pen name of Kingshuk Basu. He grew up
in Kolkata and has lived, studied and worked in various places in India and the 
USA. He is an avid lover and writer of poetry. He lives now in Kolkata with his 
wife and two children.

_**Teaser**_

_I wake up_

I wake up in ravaged gardens
 strewn with bruised petals. Crippled wings lie flightless.

Feathers defiled, float in soft haze.
 Crushed leaves ooze green – pasty, still 
breathing.

No longer fearful of the morning
 that dawns in your arms unshackled, unrepentant.

Restful mind spills open.
 Fluid on your purple chest, swims in astonished freedom.

Amidst broken chains, metal rings,
 plaster shards, and domestic porcelain – flotsam
of butchered conscience.

Tart passions tamed,
 fresh, cleansed in surrender beyond understanding.

Remorseless, love sails across
 crumpled sheets and flower-prints. I wake up next
to moonbeams.

Malleable, fleshy, silvery –
 in small hours of the morning sprawling over peace-
ocean. Giving.

Unburdened, untormented
 by the loveless, sleepless – the morning beholds new eyes.

Dark, moist and redeemed.
 Your violet eyes wakeful, demure in soft light and breeze.

_**Contents**_
 57 poems