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Fragrance of flowers seems now carried away
By the breeze of despair
Amidst the bouncing sparks of fireballs and fire-arms
Conquering and canoping the vast sky.
Smell of gunpowder hugs every schnozzle
And clouds of forlornness and fear
Float aimlessly in the air,
Arrogancy rarely understands
Why the mother earth is torn
To erase fraternity
And create a state of apathy
and stupor.
Bees stravaig, watching missiles.
While the birds continue searching for safe shelters
But amidst these fear and terrorism
The humanity sits closing the eyes
In a deadly trap of worldly affairs.
Still a state of silence
Radiates a bright light of freedom and non-alignment
From within.
Induces to walk on the edge of a sharp blade
to find an abode of peace
Beyond everyone’s dream
Rajashree Mohapatra Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
The Broken Dreams
The winter rain,
Fails to launder the woos, from the worldly events
Rather is trapped by chilled looks
And inactivated palpebra
Of people around
Beyond the expected limits.
The murmuring of the mountain streams in the silent valley
Coupled with the shrieks of frightened birds,
Intensify the fear in every night
In broken dreams
While deepening the crying of hags and wizards
The roaring of fire arms
Though not always justify the arrogancy
Yet of course tears all weaved silvery canopy
Of trust and comfort
In lieu of million loads of complacency.
Dreams of hoisted desires
Face annihilation
And skid like crumbled rain drops
From a thunderous sky,
All the tenuous wishes are hung
Like limbos
Widening the loneliness
And removing the silver lining from the eyelashes.
Rajashree Mohapatra Bhubaneswar, Odisha India
Bio: Rajashree Mohapatra
Rajashree Mohapatra is a multifaceted individual from Odisha, India. She holds master’s degrees in History and Journalism and Mass Communication from Utkal University, Odisha. By profession, she is a teacher.
With an additional postgraduate degree in Environmental Education and Industrial Waste Management from Sambalpur University, Odisha, Rajashree has dedicated herself to social activism. She advocates for social justice, environmental issues, and human rights in remote areas through non-governmental organizations.
Her passions include poetry, painting, and journalism, which reflect her creative and socially conscious personality.
