The doors are closed
I do not know
Where to go?
* * *
My Question
Who am I
Where am I from
And where to go finally?
* * *
Loved I the star
Loved I the flower
Loved I the butterfly
* * *
Valentine’s Day of roses
Red roses
Lovely and sweet
* * *
Opening the cap of rum
Say you not
Happy new year!
* * *
Drunkard
Where do you lie you fallen
Drunkard
Is this the way you take wine
Emptying the bottle
Wine your life and you for wine?
* * *
With a bottle of rum
Whisky
Beer
Say you not
Happy new year
Happy new year to you!
* * *
Walt Whitman
Seated on the grassy lawns
Plucking the reed from
And piping the songs
Of life and the world
A vagabond’s vision
A gypsy, a romp
A wanderer’s diary
Journey of life and the world
* * *
The Tik Tok Heroine
The shepherd heroine
The pastoral heroine
The local heroine
Without getting training
In Film Studies and modelling
One can be an actress
* * *
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
A phantasmagoria, an allegory
Describing the mid-nightly freedom
The unmindful Partition of the sub-continent
And the harassment of the people
Which the leaders did not
The sequence of the gory events to take
Murder, bloodshed, loot, plunder, violence
Hatred, rivalry, stampede, travel hazards
Displacement and dislocation
* * *
Jayanta Mahapatra
The Odia poet
Writing in English
About Odisha and Odia landscapes
Art, history, culture
Odishan places
Puri, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Balasore
The ancient rock-cut temples
* * *
The world changed
But the terrorist did not
The same terrorist
* * *
Sometimes you need to do meditation
Closing the eyes
Freeing the mind from
Thoughts and ideas
For a few seconds
Just to recompose, refresh yourself
* * *
I know it
What the hunger of the belly
How it keeps burning?
* * *
Divorcing her
Will you be happy
Giving tears to her?
Have you thought about
How will a poor girl
Like her?
* * *
Do you end up
Just as a drunkard
Fallen by the footpath
Unmindful of one’s family
And duty to?
* * *
People today have forgotten
To laugh
Sometimes do you to be free
From being tense
* * *
Divorce you not
After making her own
Giving your heart to
And courting her
* * *
Mr. Drinker
What have you made of yourself
Taking wine?
* * *
Your modern-age destination
Airways, airbuses and air-hostesses
Where have to go with them
What your destination?
* * *
Strange Singers of Rama
They also sing the songs of Rama
Who but in whispers
And I heard them
The poor destitute souls
Singing the songs of Rama
* * *
The cheetah
The beauty of Creation
And the mystery of the wild
* * *
The myths of the universe and of creation
How to resolve it
The myths of life and death?