The following poem by Spondon Ganguli won the third prize in Regional Category of Wingword Poetry Competition 2022
তোমার বিচরণ ত্রিভুবনে।
আকাশ গঙ্গা তোমার পথ।
আমি স্তব্ধ তোমার ব্যাপ্তি দেখে।
আমি অবাক তোমার করুণায়।।
তোমার আদেশে আমার স্থানান্তরণ লোক হতে লোকে।
কালে কালে তুমি দেখিয়েছ পথ, তবু পথভ্রষ্ট আমি!
আমার এই ছোট্ট হৃদয় করেছি উপলদ্ধি তোমায়।
সেই জ্ঞানে আমার হৃদয় যাচ্ছে পুড়ে।।
আমার আমি যাচ্ছে মিলায়ে যেমন গলে সোনা আগুনে।
আজ আমি শুদ্ধ সেই আগুনে পুড়ে।
আজ আমি পবিত্র তোমার বারি ধারায়।
আমি তৈরি জবাব দিতে, সব অপরাধের জন্য।।
About the poet
Spondon Ganguli presently working as an educator in M. C. Kejriwal Vidyapeeth, a renowned and reputed English medium school in Howrah and Kolkata under CISCE affiliation. He started his career as an educator in ICT in 2000 and worked in various schools, both ICSE and CBSE, across the country.
He is a lifelong learner with a zest for experimenting and learning new things. Apart from teaching computer science and programming, he is an author and started his journey of authorship in the year 2019. Some of his work were published in online magazines – The Thinking Pen, Hatpakha, and Channdam. Apart from this, his work are also a part of anthologies across the globe – Letters Here to hereafter, The Great Indian Anthology (Volume 3), Memories of Food (A collective anthology 2021), Indian Poetry Review (Classical) Award 2021. He is the author of three books to date. First poetry book titled ‘Forgotten Love Unforgotten Love,’ as his first solo work in literature, and the other two fictions—Let Me Hold Your Hand (English) Phira Asha (in Bengali). He won the third prize in the prestigious Wingword Competition 2022 in the regional category for his poem and traveled to Delhi to accept the award.