MANJULA ASTHANA MAHANTI

MANJULA ASTHANA MAHANTI

Shelter

Willing to write something,

Badly perplexed,

Which thought,

What should I write!

Write about a bird,

Hurt her wings, trying to fly,

Again, and again, fails,

Searching for shelter,

Looks desperate,

Or, I write about a dog,

Left leg crushed by a car,

Horrified, unable to walk,

Looking painfully for help

Who will deliver kindness

Or, should I choose, the woman,

Brutally beaten, thrown out,

By her own husband,

Bleeding, insulted, tortured,

Yet, crawling towards the same door,

To knock for the shelter,

Innumerable subjects,

Have stories of pain, agony,

Wish to survival motivates

To withstand every adverse situation,

Really difficult to portray their striving!

Law Of Nature

Forests are fascinating always

Huge trees, greenery, long shadows,

Melodious chirping of different birds,

Zigzag paths, amusing smell

But fear, at the back of mind,

If lion or tiger comes.

A wave of horror, passed through,

So, what, we are safe,

Animals kill animals only,

For their food, their survival,

It's, not easy but

They soon, smell the danger

Run or hide, to save their lives,

Animals have tough time to catch prey,

Animals too, love their lives

Make every possible effort to save

Their existence,

Yet fall victim of prey, save other animal's life.

One is killed for other's survival.

Strange law of nature....

Poverty

Whenever I see, mangy old, pulling weight

Or any skeletal like labour, breaking stones

That,they are humiliated openly

Those poor fuze own bodies

For the existence of the same bodies ,

They work empty stomach,

No water, nothing to eat,

Yet, blamed for working slowly,

Or, incapable of skills,

Poor people, can't imagine of

Some rest or relief.

Their mud houses have

Hunger, disease and poverty,

How can they have any other thought but survival

Helplessness,

Necessities

Longing to survive....

MANJULA ASTHANA MAHANTI

MANJULA ASTHANA MAHANTI is a bilingual poet, author, translator and editor. She is postgraduate in Hindi and Sociology, graduate with English and Sanskrit hon.besides this Sangeet Prabhakar and B. Ed. too. She has published Abhishap Damini ka, Iztiraab, Unnayan, Manjula's Pot Pourri, Vista Vision, Ujesh, many sanjha sanklan, published short stories, poems, articles in more than 35 national and international anthologies. She is recipient of Bharat Ratna Atal Behari Bajpai award, Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore award, Best Novelist Award, Star Ambassador Of World Poetry and Art award, has been chosen amongst 25 woman of Excellence along with many other prestigious samman etc.