SWAPNA BEHERA, INDIA

Swapna Behera

Ms. Swapna Behera is a trilingual poet, translator and editor, and author of seven books of different genres including one on children's literature on Environment. She is a recipient of International UGADI AWARD 2019, Gujurat Sahitya Akademi Award-2022 & 2021, International Poesis Award of Honor as Jury, Pentasi B World Fellow Poet, Honoured Poet of India Award from the Seychelles Government and International awards from Algeria, Morocco, Kajhakhstan, Egypt and Argentina. Her poem A NIGHT IN THE REFUGEE CAMP is translated into 67 languages.

A MYSTICAL SOUL RISES 

When your lucrative smile

dazzles on the gypsy grass

being a dot ;

I wait for dawn

you descend 

with bulletins of enigmatic draft 

tinkles your benign audacity

my being dances in the tune 

dew drops of eternity 

proceed towards my soul

 

This collaboration paints 

the eighth colour of the rainbow

and sings the Anthem of ecstasy

I feel your arms around me 

the dot extends

to be your circle 

 climax echoes in the ether

I wait to surrender my solitude 

and join the perennial stream 

 you open 

my nose stud

I become 

your bride for ever ...

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Solitude of Soul 2023 :: Setu, March 2023