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| Mandira Ghosh |
From the time immemorial Kings have fought
No dynasty is left to see their fruits!
Generals from South west
Halt!
Russian Army Halt.
Spread music over Kyiv
Not missiles
Halt!
Killing innocents in Crimea?
Kyiv falls
Chernikiv is bombarded
Colossal attack
on children and women
Mariupal falls
Refugees flee to Berlin
Poland
where
fresh life may begin
Forces from all sides
as enemy troops advance
Russia had annexed Crimea earlier
Now Odessa
Cut the destiny to approach the Black Sea.
Now Redcross arrives in buses to Mykolaiv
Will combat weapons with music and songs
Nightmare will pass
The sun will shine.
Nightmares should pass
The sun must shine.
***
And then the Bell rang
From the time of Buddha was born
to the time of Jesus birth
Till the time of when the zamindar from Bengal left the bell ringing
Mistakenly,
till it rang forever
went on ringing till my classes got over.
Years have passed
Bells are still ringing
I grew old
Like every woman, I now have wrinkles.
which no one likes
In Ukraine and in Syria innocent girls die
And death comes to the extraordinary people
Yes. And The bells are still ringing
And may ring forever.
***
A Promise Made Today
I am not the one
Who will mourn
For unable to laugh again
At the lazy summer sun
Near the India Gate
With Black Berry trees uprooted
Shadows raging, where
Palace coming up
Defining death
Moth eaten ozone layer
Light through opaque lenses
Blurred vision
Can't participate in upcoming harvest or
Celebration of
New Normal dream.
Statistics of death
Turned lives as numbers
Deaths as half burnt flesh
Thrown in the holy Ganges
Bodies decomposed
Buried on the banks
Child suckles dry breasts to death.
This is the age of super men
With fast forwarding to the next century
Statistics of lust and hate evaluated
The price of flesh.
Supraminds ceased to evaluate
Degraded all to virus and bacteria.
But voices that can't be heard
Today should speak
Pharynx may vibrate
Let death don't calm
The voices mummified
Of women, poor, dying and downtrodden
Feeble; not counted by the sarkar's statistics.
Will speak
Will speak
Again they will speak.
***
Profile: Mandira Ghosh is an eminent author, poet, educator and researcher. She is an outstanding and hard worker who has educated and groomed hundreds of children and received a Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. She is a recipient of Bharat Nirman Award 2020, Dr. Radhakrishnan Award from Asian Academy of Arts and Marwah studios. Plaque of distinction from DELNET, Asian Literary Societies two consequent awards, Indian women achiever 2020 and Author of the Year Award 2022. She has remained the Guest Editor of the Special Indian Edition of the Seventh Quarry, Swansea Magazine from Wales and also a featured poet in the same magazine. Also being awarded with Dr. Sarojini Naidu International Award for working women.
Her poems, stories, translations, and reviews have been published in several magazines and journals in India and abroad. A multifaceted personality apart from education of students, she organized poetry workshops in India Habitat centre, DELNET, Shilagram, Guwahati, IIT Bombay, OP Jindal and other places in Delhi and beyond. With an early science background, she has used scientific terms in her poetry. Other issues of life are portrayed in her writings and research which portrays the musings of a very sensitive heart. She is an MA in English, diploma holder in Journalism and B Ed with English and Special English. Though expresses herself in English, Indian thought and philosophy are her favourite subjects. She is shortlisted from Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and received Editors Choice award twice with her first poem Monalisa and is 8 times the poet of the year award from International Society of poets, Maryland. USA. She is the Governing Board Member and Editor of The Poetry Society (India) and the Treasurer from the past 20 years. She is a member of India International Centre, India Habitat Centre, Indian Society of Poets, and International Society Of History of Religions who was invited to speak but was unable to.
An author 23 books and her books include
Krishna In Indian Thought literature and Music.
The Cosmic Dance of Shiva
Mahatma Gandhi:Tryst with Satyagraha
Shiva and Shakti
Folk Music of the Himalayas
Poetry and Science Opposites meet
Aroma
New Sun, Cosmic Tour, Song in a City and others.
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