Dilip Mohapatra Poems

The Euryklides' stomachs rumbled
and the encrypted voices of the unliving
rose to the larynx of the oracles
foretelling the calamities to come.
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We all move on our assigned tracks
some by destiny and some by choice
but once a while our tracks merge
for sometime
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Like any other game that
people play
the games of poetics have their rules too
and have players pitted
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Sentenced to solitude
I merge myself in you
the master mariner
and you envelop me
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POETRY READING

It was an international
Poetry-Fest that I recall
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DEATHS FOR SALE

Deaths
all kinds of deaths
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I could have sprayed the room
with a strong deodorant
to drown your scent that lingered
but you continued to
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Psychedelic display
of celestial lights
as sounds of the falling rains
play the incessant notes
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The soft silence
of the pollen falling on
butterflies' wings
bounces back from
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