Do not party you,
Main physical distance,
Avoid contact,
Do not hug or hand shake,
...
On mother's day
I thinking of the asthi-kalasha
Hanging by one midnight
And the deign of the pinda-dana.
...
Mother, my mother, good mother,
I just remember you
As have turned into a photo
Leaving me here.
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XI
Thou art the Ferryman, O my Lord
Of life and death!
In the midstream where I fear
...
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,
...
To open the book of criticism to read Jayanta Mahpatra is to come to know
That he is first and foremost an Oriya writing in English
Rather than an Indian,
One of coastal Orissa, its topography and cartography
...
Apni unpadh, dehati bibi ke sang
Mein chala
International Women's Day manane,
Unke sang jo apne husband kaa naam tak
...
An English girl, so beautiful and lovely,
Standing before,
Let me, let me see her,
A girl golden and glistening,
...
My inspiration are you,
Only you,
Since I saw you,
Since then
...
A little sister,
Do you remember your small sister
Coming at the call of yours,
Ready to give her life?
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