RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA

 

RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA

 

An Ancient Legend Tells ...

 

Her dark face

Lined by deep wrinkles

Lit up with wide smile

 

She took in the valley

and hills in a floating gaze.

Her eyes shut, she was silent for long

 

Then she said

" I shall tell you the story of my ancestors

Of my people dispersed

in the mountains, in the forest

Of those who went far, far away

and never returned "

 

Memory is the unwritten history of life

Without memory, people slowly die

It colours the path between

Shadow and light.

 

She was listening to the harmony of dusk

These were the moments

of profound communion with ancestors

Unfolding the mystery of ancestral wisdom

 

She was in her unending search

For the land of freedom.

 

 

Again...

 

Silence descended

Serenity surrounded

Contentment arose

When he gave a hug to her weeping soul

and kissed her upwelling tears.

 

She was lost ...

A snow flake disappeared in pure air ...

Now hearts started flowering

A great ecstasy, an utter joy.

They sailed again through an eroded bed ...

 

Life is not a smooth sailing

But the small things give a beautiful meaning

Everything becomes a glory up to itself again.

 

 

 

In Silence...

 

Love began to shower gently

I felt the heaven blessing me

 

Your smile was most promising

My eyes sank before thee.

 

My lashes dropped with setting sun

The streams babbled with the sweetest hope

 

In mystery of darkness ...

Hundreds of lotuses silently bloomed

The fragrance filled my begging bowl

 

Your glittering face

made me an enchantress angel

You were that emperor

Who celebrated the moments?

 

The night was cool with its darkness

Infinite music celebrated the silence.

 

Now nothing more is needed

The whole opened up to rejoice.

 

The purity of innocence has it's own freedom

It sings happily divine songs

Copyright Rajashree Mohapatra

Bhubaneswar India

 

RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA

 

RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA is a teacher by profession and poetry, painting and journalism are her passions. She is a bilingual poet. Her Odia and English poems are translated into many national and international languages and are published in prestigious anthologies, international   ezines and Journals.