Three Poems by Rajashree Mohapatra

Hanging clouds

Stubborn clouds
Hanging from the sky above
Against the walls of memories, 
automate hours together 
through a mundane scale. 

The muddy night becomes speechless
While a lonely heart undergoes an inharmonious beating
And dries like a leaf of autumn
The promises of childhood of picking pebbles 
at the foothills vanishes. 

Promises are like droplets of water
Keep on changing forms
Wild wind and a bemired night understand it better.
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Sleeping Night

When the night 
Slips into deep sleeps in seclusion
And dreams 
It strives to add more feels to the poems
Of a  lonely poet
and  those appear impressive 
And enchanted.

When the dawn wakes 
And the world is enlightened 
The poet completes the poem with his last note 
And there burns a poem
To shine forever on this mortal world. 

The shadows, the candle flames 
The pieces of papers, the nibs of the pens 
And above all the poet himself, 
Can speak how arduous it is to dedicate 
A poem of passion to the humanity. 

No doubt 
The poet encourages to go through his saga 
where his golden foot prints in the coast of time 
inspires a wrecked ship of humility 
to cross the  wild tides of life .
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Secrets of Heart 

The darkness of the deep blue eyes 
Coroborating the abyss in the waters of a ocean 
Hides many a secrets of century - old stories
Of life and its evolution. 

My silent heart
Off and on discovers those secrets 
And filters the essence
Out of those deserted  eyes in the dark nights.
 
Poetry of a wandering mind 
Fantasies out of secret desires
And dreams of the buried relationship 
Enhances the inquisitiveness
Beyound the bundles of street gossips.
 
World is a bundle of knots in a web
He must be knowing well 
Kissing the wild wind in the 
Silence of summer nights 
Might strengthen  the  knots  
With an unified convenant.

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- Rajashree  Mohapatra 
Bhubaneswar, Odisha,India

Rajashree Mohapatra: Born in Odisha in India has received her masters 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.