Memorials Poem by Ratnakar Rout

Ratnakar Rout

Ratnakar Rout

Village-Boita, District-Balasore, State-Orissa, Country-India

Memorials



Who needs a bunch of plastic quoted?
Suitably contrived
And artificially designed decorated rose.
Though a property for life long
Can it overcome the passing time?
Know not when it deserts the world unfeelingly.
Like bin of putrid papers.
Relation may exist for short or long
For a day or for a night
But when the prolonged waiting ends
The thirst is quenched
The hunger is mitigated
When the heart is full
No inundation further appears
A calm quiet transparent stream
Flows candidly with a soft tune.
Kissing the sea passionately
It completely mingles
And a long journey ends.
To achieve salvation
In her lasting embraces
How far it travels
How long it waits
Like stone turned Ahalya
Matters not.
A scene ends
And a new episode begins
When Krishna moves to Mathura
In the cascade led by Akrur
The special envoy of tormenter Kansha
Radha remains the same Radha
An icon of love
Even Krishna departs
Does Radha wait for time immemorial?
As the return journey is not scheduled
The uncertainty prevails in the remnants
Of the mellifluous chord of
Krishna’s flute echoed at the bank of Yamuna
The soil of Gopa
The benevolent shady trees
The pillars of the distant memories
Do adjoin to her woes and misery
To her frustration and curliness
Tears and sorrows further the grief
Or are those eschewed bravely.
But tears never roll down her eyes
Grief never smears the heart
An eternal bliss
The memorials of those intimate hours
Fill up her heart perpetually
Despite all twisted apprehensions
And predicaments
Because she is in love
And an embodiment of love
An epithet of love for herself
What more does one aspire?

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Ratnakar Rout

Ratnakar Rout

Village-Boita, District-Balasore, State-Orissa, Country-India
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