RANJANA SHARAN SINHA

RANJANA SHARAN SINHA

THE BLUE BUTTERFLY

The corpse

of your image

comes alive

in the coffin—

Resurrected, redefined:

A blue butterfly

with large iridescent wings.

A peek through

the cerulean blue—

Your soft memories

Come  fresh  as

lemon- scented tea!

The pattern of Lavender Rose

on the bone china teacup

reappears with a

captivating allure

stirring me to

deep emotions.

My heart once

in gloomy shroud—

Tremulous, fragile

like falling petals,

soars in the sky

beyond mountain summits.

The flit and flutter

create ripples of joy.

The blue butterfly once again

a magnificent  obsession!

MYTHS OF LIGHT

Warm weather

getting hot,

people travelling

greater distance

to vacation spots:

Quivers of expectancy!

Wings of happiness!

Asphalt highway

with green corridors

in  summer –

An avalanche of

Nerium  Oleander and

bright Bougainvillea

A blaze of colour

from cup-shaped

crimson flowers

of red silk cotton—

Completely leafless in bloom,

descends to the

dry horizon—

Goes unperceived  by many:

Rail -thin bodies

with colour-blind eyes

busy at road construction!

Terrain of hopelessness

Amid asphalt fumes:

No sky lights their roads—

Myths of light

Under a bronze

oppressive sun!

FLICKERING HORIZONS

I stood on the edge of space

Losing track of time: demented!

Faintly alive, catching shadows

Of flickering horizons.

Spots and strips of nature,

Blue water of a shore less sea

Asked me, “Where are you?”

I looked with obscure eyes

My lashes long and drooping!

Terra incognita!

An in-between time;

The landscape partly green,

Partly brown with

Splashes  of spring,

Sparks of rain,

Touches of winter!

I was alive in

The singing accent of spring

And the rush of rain;

I was dead in

The blizzards of winter—

Roaring and rearing!

RANJANA SHARAN SINHA

Dr. RANJANA SHARAN SINHA: Former professor in English at Shree Binzani City Collage, Nagpur (Maharashtra), Dr. Ranajana Sharan Sinha is a well-known voice in Indian Poetry in English and has received accolade form the former President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for her poem Mother Nature. Poems, short stories, articles and research papers published in reputed dailies, magazines, e-zines, journals and archives at national and international levels. Authored and published 07 books in different genres and 50 research papers. The books are: 1. Spring Zone (Collection of Poems and Haiku), 2.Midnight Sun (Collection of Short Stories), 3.Nature in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Sumitra Nandan Pant (Criticism), 4. Feminism: Times and Tides (A historiographical  and theoretical commentary on Feminism), 5. Different Dimensions (Collection of research papers),6. Scents and Shadows (Collection of Poems), 7. Rhymes for Children (Collection of rhymes). Completed and published UCG-Sponsored MRP on comparative literature. Honoured  with many prestigious awards for her contribution to literature: Best Poet  Award, Poet International, Bangalore; Rashtriya Pratibha Samman (Kavya Kalanidhi), Udaipur; Best Citizens of India, International Publishing House, New Delhi; T.G. Deshmukh Best Teacher Award, Nagpur Shikshan Mandal, Nagpur, Brijsahityamani Samman , Brajlok Sahitya, Kala, Sanskriti Akademi, Agra,and many more.  Research Supervisor, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur. Writes  in Hindi, too.