Maya my wife,
Maya my son, my daughter,
Maya my life, my world,
Maya my house.
...
You passed away,
But your memories of
A political satirist
Have not!
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Cobras, black, white and grey,
Which but live in starw roofs, ant-hills, field dividers,
Tree stems or holes,
There are a few non-poisnous snakes
...
A small statue of Nataraja Shiva,
You give me
And I shall go away
Archaeological, excavated and sculptural,
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The book of poetry, slim in corpus, carries to Jayanta Mahapatra
Sahitya Akademi award for 1981,
A book which presents the poet
As a dreamer and a visionary,
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The song of love whistle I, sing I
Whenever see I, remember I,
You coming to as
The song of love
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The chariot housing
Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra,
The grotesque idols
Will come out
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You packing the goods,
I packing the goods,
going for a honeymoon,
not to the moon,
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Is it modern culture to
Unclothe and denude?
Where are we going to
With our nude photographs?
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It’s the time for the breaking news and the news breaking,
Break the news, but break not all rules and regulations,
O, you the media men,
Reporters, correspondents and journalists!
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