The Doorway of Consciousness، a Poem by Neha Bhandarkar

My existence in me

the size of a small dot

was getting tortured 

by the ordinariness in me

Orderly, to and fro, moving senseless meaningless thoughts

grow innumerable offshoots

of thorny toxic branches

For a moment, my existence

turns multi-coloured

Thoughtlessness shatters 

my own ideal tenets

Unrestrained passions

get reined in 

by a genteel ray of discreetness

with the guilty horse within me

The cloudy windows

of the grizzly mind

start fading automatically

to open the door of conscience!

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© Neha Bhandarkar

Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Neha Bhandarkar is a widely published Iconic Marathi Poet, embellished with numerous national and international awards for her consummate literary skill mused about in her writings. She is a published author of 16 books in various languages. She is a trilingual author writing in Marathi, Hindi and English and also a genuine translator. Many of her poems and stories are being published in many international anthologies, magazines and E Zines. Some of her poems and stories have been translated into French, Albanian, Russian , Italian, Phillipino, Nepali, Greece, Odia, Bengali, Sanskrit Assamese and Brail script etc. She is the winner of Central  and State government awards from the Government of India . She has bagged the Hindi state Sahithya Academy Award twice. Her poems have been broadcast on Quichotte Radio, France, Hindi Radio, Chicago (USA). She is a International PEACE Ambassador of Global Nation, Bangladesh. Moreover, she is a cultural ambassador appointed by the International Forum of Creativity and Humanity, Morocco. As well as ambassador of Peace and Humanity for IFCH, Kingdom of Morocco.