LUTFA HANUM SALIMA BEGUM
Lutfa Hanum Salima Begum : Poet, writes in Assamese; has four collections of poems to her credit; translated into Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, Kannada, English and Uzbek; has received Munin Borkotoki Award for her poetic excellence; at present, teaches Assamese at the Cotton College, Guwahati.
A Poem
The fallen leaves want
a green passage
back to the branches of tree
The birds want
to be yellow inside eggs
The river wants
that the dead fish return
The shadow wants
to be trees
to be human hearts
The smoke wants a red path
back to the heart of the fire
The water would be stones
The stones want to dissolve
in human hearts
And me, melting in you
seek a passage back to me
through the green
through water, stones
words and tunes