Radhamohan Gadanayak
...
Faith
A man was on a long flight. The first warning of the approaching problems came when the sign on the airplane flashed on: 'Fasten your seat belts'. Then, after a while, a calm voice said, “We shall not be serving the beverages at this time as we are expecting a little turbulence. Please be sure your seat belt is fastened.” As he looked around the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers were becoming apprehensive. Later, the voice...
The Golden Fruit
Abhash Kumar Boral,
abhash0@yahoo.co.in
Paltan Padia,
Khurda-752055
Namu wiped his spectacle glasses. He tried to clean the thick
glasses with his dirt soaked cloth. He wanted it clean to have a clear vision of
the fruit that he wanted to see after all these long years. It was the fruit of
his dream since his childhood, since the time the enchanting man whispered it
into his ear that this would be his only achievement in life! That...
A Worthy Life
Anupam Patra
Bhubaneswar
anupamppatra@gmail.com
blog- http://anupampatracontemplates.blogspot.in/
Nothing changed about Vikram, during an epoch span of almost four years, who lay like a vegetable on the foldable bed in Cabin No. 11 of Sri J.J. Naidu Hospital, bound to the tubes and pipes galore. His zealous eyes, blinking in quick succession followed by an undue hiatus, suggesting a faint forgetfulness and unmatched intrigue...
Another fairy-tale
Bijaylaxmi Sarangi
Cuttack
She was fairly tired of playing at a single place. It was her elder sister who prevented her from moving even a step ahead right from that place. They were seated under a banyan tree at the upper right side of the canal. All other kids had vanished from eye sight. Only few women were taking dip, down the canal along with their earthen pots. The canal makes most of their living. Their father like many others...
Easy
Sunil Gangopadhyay
With ease I make a million flowers bloom,
All at once I light up some suns, moons, stars,
In a passing whim I blow out the moonlight
(Remember that moonlight?) or the sunlight (remember that too?).
Don't believe a thing my detractors say.
They might say that I am a child or a fool,
or a magician, ---
Ragged tents, broken drums, patches
on his black coat, but look what a deadly dance he's dancing
on the pupils...
Ash
Jayanta Mahapatra
The substance that stirs in
my palm
could well be a dead man; no need
to show surprise at the dizzy acts of wind.
My old father sitting uncertainly three feet away
is the slow cloud against the sky:
so my heart's beating makes of me a survivor
over here where the sun quietly sets.
The ways of freeing myself:
the glittering flowers, the immensity of rain for example,
which...
Anupama: Letter
Parthasarthy Jena
parthnewdelhi@gmail.com
New Delhi
Thousands scents/ Thousands whispers
Come up--- From this unwrapped envelope
Thousand dreams run through/get hitched
I walk along with the smudged parallels/ Evening flowers
And the verdant sky
I walk along the boulevard
In drizzle
Walk along the moonlit sky
Walk into the canoe
The boatman sings castles and the princes/
Butterflies play up
Along the shore/
The...
Dancing With Kalia Dhana
Silke Liria Blumbach
Berlin, Germany
Photo © & courtesy- Rajika Puri
Who was your dancer, I am asked.
You were the most radiant
dancing couple of the night!
two records spinning on the turntable
drew me in like big big eyes
I found myself whirling at the speed of light
through all-colours, no-colours and edge
embracing the beat of a wooden heart
with whom have I been dancing
the light...
A Round Pair
Dr Kumarendra Mallick
Hyderabad
You played the usual trick,
Under the pretest of beauty
You gave men and women
Almond and fish-shaped eyes
With a narrow corner
To hold smiles and tear
Love and anger
Joys and fear, And designed for self
A lovely round pair
With no beginning
no end, always so wide
no secret corners
emotions known to us to hide.
You have a pan-view,
you see the whole and real
And not...
On my way
Manish Kumar Rout
I stopped and pondered,
as he marred a valid point,
but before I could answer,
the other on the left replied..
"I was with you always,
encouraging your every move,
and it was I for whom,
you have to reach your goal.
You have to move one,
for the others are doing so,
if you wait for the others,
you will have nowhere to go."
"You have to make compromises,
for that's the way of life,
you have to compete,
give...
Morning
Pradipta Kumar Mohanty
Jharsuguda
Art by- David Schuster
The horizon obscures
by the shrouds of smoke
spurt from the funeral pyre
of a deceased
found in the nearby brewery.
A yell of scream
echoes in the air
as a mendicant
faces an attack of a hostile mob
for stealing a slice of loaf.
Really shocks
Alas ! Most people seem destitute
of common human feelings.
A gloss of ...
