I shall go away, you too will go away
As we are here not to stay for so long,
But your memory will not go so easily,
A somewhat dark-complexioned girl
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Ramkrishna Paramhamsa's disciple never wanted to be a poet,
But as a saint-singer
He would have sung
As the saints as wandering fellows
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Jayanta Mahapatra’s Shadow Space, published for first time in 1997,
Opens with Living In Orissa poem,
Followed by Landscape, A Hunt of Grief,1992, Heroism, Trying To Keep Still,
The Shadow of Day, Widow, Saving Ourselves, Illness
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I see the poetry of Jayanta conjuring up
The images of the Konark Sun-temple
With the chariot of the Sun-god
Drawn by horses,
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St.Valentine's day is coming,
But my love is missing,
Whom to give the love letter
And the bouquet of flowers?
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Dead Jackal, are you the last to be cleared forth
And cleansed completely
Out of the ancient forest,
The last to be extinct
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My love-letter in red
With a red rose
I am sending to you
On St.valentine's day.
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But Fate betrayed me as thus
That got I not
And hence keep I complaining against
The Writ of Destiny,
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There is there the philosophy of life,
There is there the philosophy of love.
Dwarakanth H. Kabadi as a poet of love,
Love mundane, love cosmic,
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