SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

A Look At Life-9

Life is not all about

Dreaming and enduring

It is an opportunity

To look at oneself

And move few steps ahead

It is not an end in itself

Rather a means to the end

The end is to know the truth

That is so far under the veil

To treat life as an end

Is nothing but doing injustice to oneself

And to miss the opportunity

That may not come again and again

Better to get up

And seek the source

From where we have come

To where ultimately we go

Rather be confined to the transition

Temporary and unreal

A Look At Life-10

Things have changed,

people have changed, nothing

remained the same over the years.

The festivals so eagerly awaited for

in the not so distant past have lost its colours.

The charm and the beauty embedded in it have lost its glamour making it nothing more than a mere formality.

The feeling and emotion associated

and the way they were felt

and observed in our early childhood

are sadly missing.

The modern man has no time

for the idiocy and romanticism of his infamous and inglorious predecessors.

Gone are the days.

We no more cherish and relish festivals.

They come and go largely  unnoticed without having an iota of festivity in them the zeal and enthusiasm with which we celebrated raja and dussehra,

the sense of belonging and

fellow feeling associated are but

things of the past,

which our kids can ever fathom and realise

It is easy to calculate what we have achieved, very difficult to visualize

what we have lost in the bargain.

After all man is a man

at the end of the day, needs a bit of these to get away from the tedious

monotony of life.

The spell of sophisticated idiocy

will be over one day and man

has to look back where lies

the nectar of life,

the panacea to all his maladies.

A Look At Life-11

Listen to none.

Go deep into the heart

where lies the beauty of love,

the language of poetry,

the artistic brilliance

of all art and craft

Dive deep

There lies the abode of God,

the nectar of life,

the sanctum of peace and tranquility

and all that is fine and subtle

in this world of ours

Look at

that beautiful garden,

full of colourful flowers,

nice and delicate,

ready to greet and

love each and everyone.

Feel it,

the nicest creation of his.

Do not play with it,

never allow the hot summer

to spoil it,

let it remain close to it

and love and love only

SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY, O.F.S, son of Raj  Kishore and Shantilata Mohanty, born at Padmapur, Jagatsinghpur, Odisha on 1.1.1963 is a multilingual poet, essayist and writer. He is a published poet and writer and a featured poet of PENTASI B World Friendship Poetry. His writings include essays, short stories, poems and novels which are published in newspapers and in various national and international magazines, journals and anthologies. Working as Finance Officer in Govt of Odisha, he writes   extensively on life, its beauty and intricacies which are widely acclaimed. Poems are published in Mother Anthology by Hall of Poets, Voices of Aspirants by Poetry Planet, Mother by Poetry for Peace, Let the men speak for peace, Aroma of wilting petals, Anupam Bharat,  Sourav, The Rock Pebbles, Symphony of Souls, Serious &Hilarious, Heartistry, World poetry on let there be peace, Complexion based discrimination global insight, Thought and Nature Anthology, New Creative Anteriority, Spring Window to peace, Indo African Anthology, Love at first sight, Spilling Essences, You and Me, A new beginning, Heart to Heart, Only you, My Valentine, Whispering Hearts, Poetic Rainbow, Fragrance of Asia, The Harmony, Sahitya Anand, East meets the West, Symphony of Peace, Pearls of Poesy, Ambrosia, International Anthology on Autism, Stars, Sky and Poiesis, Rain Drops of Love, Smrutire Parijat, Peace Lover, GloMag, Feb 2019, Tranquil Muse, Medley of Melodies, Nostalgia, Rise to Higher Essence, Cherry Toppings, Inked Thoughts, Whispering Poiesis, Rippling of Peace, Creative Anteriority, World for Piece, Traumas on Widows, Holistic Healing of Widow, The Global Literati Insights Research Journal, 1st issue 2018 etc.  Poems are also featured in online magazines like atunispoetry.com, our poetry archive, GloMag etc., Poem hunter.com, Destiny poets, Different truths,  YouTube.com.etc. Website-smrutiweb.wordpress.com