Born and brought up in UP, Poulomi Bose moved to Delhi for her graduate education and pursued an Honours degree in English from IP College, DU, MA in English Literature from JNU and Mphil in English Literature from Hyderabad Central University. She has taught in various colleges in Delhi University for 4 years as assistant professor of English Literature. Her areas of interest include Victorian Literature and Literary Theory as well as Communicative English, and she has taught language proficiency courses in both JNU and DU. A constant academic achiever, Ms. Bose has several publications to her credit in various national journals and books, and she has also presented papers in prestigious institutions like DU, University of Hyderabad, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jadavpur and Osmania University. She has also published a novella, a short story and several poems. She started writing poems while in college, initially to pour out emotions and experiences into words, which later grew into a way to resist and speak up against sociology-political issues that she feels strongly about.

• City behind the Clouds

  • Do you know of the
    City behind the clouds?
    Where golden waters
    fly in the sun of night
    as birds with glistening
    feathers swim by
    across the fields of
    soft, soft cotton balls,
    baked ripe with the
    warmth of the mist
    that guards the
    city like a secret.

    Do you wonder
    if it’s people, made of thoughts
    also shift in and out of
    reality like their city keepers-
    one moment a dragon,
    another, a unicorn,
    a house, an ocean
    a hallow, or nothing.
    Do they laugh like the
    sound of rumbles and
    cry out big drops of rains,
    and walk on air like magic?

    Do you want to go
    to the city of clouds,
    where the floor
    beneath your feet floats
    over the world, and your thoughts
    roll on the fairytales
    of the horizons where your
    dreams have lived,
    since forever.

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