For the days that need poems which sit with you instead of cheering you up:
1. Keu Kotha Rakheni, Sunil Gangopadhyay: nobody kept their word, thirty three years gone. The saddest inventory ever written in Bangla. 2. Abar Ashibo Fire, Jibanananda Das: "I shall return to Bengal again." Longing disguised as a promise, grief disguised as hope. 3. Dui Bigha Jomi, Rabindranath Tagore: two bighas of land, lost to the moneylender. Grief with a plot and a villain. 4. Banalata Sen, Jibanananda Das: read past the romance and it is pure melancholy, a thousand years of tiredness in three stanzas. 5. Sonar Tori, Rabindranath Tagore: the boatman takes your harvest and rows away. You stay on the bank with empty hands. Sources: Banglapedia Read them aloud, slowly, in a quiet room. Sadness shared with a poet weighs exactly half, and the second reading always hurts less than the first.