RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA

 

The Smoke

Ambition and power 

Have their own stories 

Unlike the story of the 

Unknown savage wind.

The smoke, invading the sky  

Has wiped away the smile 

From the innocent lives.

The sound of the laughter 

Drags them to the burial ground 

Where cries for a life is rampant.

 

Love is now a midday dream. 

As the streets with the moon light 

Steal the darkness of midnight.

Last letter

At times under a piculiar circumstance

One may hesitate to smile with a loved one

Might not opt to write the life a second  

Or cry for consolations or compassion 

When torture exceeds the limit of tolerance.

The words would be lost 

In the mists of thoughts 

Amidst the deserts of caravan nights.

And manipulate slowly the appearing dreams.

Thoughts scatter like pearls of

A broken string, difficult to collect because 

They disappear in the bed of granules of sand.

Conscience forces 

To forget the loved benevolences 

That echoed once in grace

Yet not repeat now.

Voice gets choked as if lost for ever 

As living is like running a race.

Tides In The Ocean

Is that a beginning is defined at fingertip? 

And so is an end?

It confuses 

What could be then

All that take birth and die in an interval?

We ride the waves of the ocean like life 

And feel elevated at every rise 

Get disheartened at a fall, 

Although each new ride thrills and 

Ensures repeating remembrances.

 

Each tide heads to a coast 

Dashes the goal, crushed and vanished

It is its destiny. 

Memories, unlikely burden the life- ocean, 

with dimming of the Light.

Yet are fated to vanish 

And we simply walk past the way 

As the undiagnosed walkers

Awaiting the clouds of illusion to disappear 

Streams of the mountains look 

pristine and clear .

Minds are set to understand 

The invaluable emptiness of this creation 

Only when understood 

An illuminated mind heads up

As a shark in the ocean.

RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA

RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA: Born in Odisha in India has received her master’s degree in ' History ‘ and 'Journalism  and  Mass Communication' from Utkal University,  Odisha .She is a teacher by profession. Being a post graduate in ' Environmental Education and Industrial Waste Management ' from Sambalpur University Odisha, she has  devoted herself  as a Social Activist for the cause of social justice, Environmental issues  and human rights  in remote areas  through Non-governmental organisations. Poetry, Painting and Journalism are her passions.