AMITA RAY

AMITA RAY

Ecstacy

Your touch splashes the east with a flourish

effulgence smears the horizon

gently you kiss Nature’s threshold

The earth awakens to behold.

Your light touches my eyes

sinks deep in,

the earth, the ocean, the sky,

all terrestrial beings

In hallucinatory impermanence break free—

Cosmic unison begets

A cadence of single sheen.

The glow tinges my soul,

uplifts a spirit

straddling mind and body.

From the epicenter of maimed existence

freedom surges, the ephemeral

bonds with the womb of eternity

In the sonorous rumble ‘Oum’.

Smoldering grief, pulsating anxiety

Joys bitter sweet remain suspended in a trance—

The soul is set free

In rapturous Ecstacy.

A Fairy Tale

She stared at the vacant night

clutching a pall of gloom

pangs in morsels snowballed.

A teenage love story of sweet sixteen

promising a fairy tale ending

clipped midway in trailing frustration,

depression smoldered

Stratified under a pale light.

Only, if tears could efface life

she shed enough of it dipping her bones

cloistered in shallow breath

looking down the precipice

Suddenly she beheld a steady luminous gaze—

A confidant, the star, which could be her mother

she had frantically looked for

in the farthest nook of the galaxy

to bare an orphaned bosom.

Getting over her blues in wrapped radiance

a new leaf she turned

The world she wooed with hope and love

gave a damn to happy endings.

Narratives in light and shadow wove her life anew--

The precipice now a picturesque plot of land

and happily she lived ever after.

The Full Moon

I hold the crescent moon

In my eyes

cupped in longing,

Tripping in darkness of my room

Through widow ajar.

A latitude degree away

your eyes seek mine

trudging the sky.

The sky is one,

The moon one,

through the crescent moon you see

Our longing travels full circle.

The warmth of our love

waxes to a full moon,

haloed in our eyes

We become complete

AMITA RAY

AMITA RAY is a retired associate professor in English and Vice Principal of a college in West Bengal. Her career spans over a period thirty eight years.An academic of varied interests she is a published translator and short story writer. She has translated into English Abanindranath Tagore's KHIRER PUTUL which was published in 2018.Many of her short stories have been published in popular web magazines and  The Sunday Statesman. She has a passion for writing poetry and has contributed to Glomag,Setu, Dissident Voice and other online magazines.