RAJASHREE MOHAPATRA

 

Smoke

Ambition and 

Power has 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 are rampant.

 

Love is now a midday dream. 

As the streets with the moon light 

Steal the darkness of midnight.

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.