BARDS & BALLADS

Featured Poet: Moinak Dutta

Published fiction writer, poet, teacher,

Short bio:

Born on 5^th September, 1977, he has been writing poems and stories from school days. Presently engaged as a teacher of English in a government sponsored institution. Many of his poems and stories are published in national and international anthologies and magazines and also dailies including ‘Madras Courier’, ‘The Statesman’ ( kolkata edition), ‘ World Peace Poetry anthology ‘ ( United Nations), ‘Spillwords’ ( published from New York,USA), ‘Setu’ (published from Pittsburgh, USA,)Riding and Writing ( as a featured poet twice, published from Ohio, USA), ‘ The Indian Periodical’ ‘ Pangolin Review’, ‘ Tuck Magazine’ ‘ Duane’s Poetree’,’Story mirror’, ‘ Tell me your story’ ( literary and travel magazine), ‘ Nature Writing ‘ magazine ( U.K.), ‘ Oddball magazine’ ‘Soft Cartel’ magazine, ‘ Diff Truths’ magazine,   ‘ Ethos Literary Journal’,’ The Literary Fairy Tales’ ‘ Defiant Dreams’ ( a collection of stories on women empowerment published by Readomania, New Delhi ), ‘Dynami Zois’ ( a selection of short stories comprised of works of authors from India and abroad) ‘ Muffled Moans’ ( a special anthology against women and child abuse, gender violence, published by Authorspress, New Delhi,) ‘ Quesadilla and other adventures ( an anthology of food poems published by Hawakal Publishers, Kolkata) etc.

Destroyed dream

What animal fervour

What insane mind

What irreligious fever

What brutal kind

Could think of killing so

A dream , a flower, a child?

Alas! We just write and think

By our words we would bring

One day the world from the brink

Of being sunk into the abyss

We just dream of a home

Where all will live in peace,

No violence, no bloodbath,

No mutilation of children

No more scars on human birth,

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And yet, Asifas die,

Just like Nirbhayas,

And we still think

We are humans, sigh!

చిద్రమైన స్వప్నం 

అనుసృజన : సి.వి. సురేష్

ఏది మృగాధారణ

ఏది మనో వైకల్యం

ఏది క్రూరమైన జాలి

ఒక కలనో , ఒక పువ్వునో, ఒక బాల్యన్నో

నిర్దాక్షిణ్యంగా చంపడమేనా?

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అయ్యో!  మేము కేవలం అలొచిస్తాము….రాస్తాము

మా మాటలతో, ఒక రోజు

అంచులవరకు వెళ్ళిన  ఈ ప్రపంచాన్ని

ఆ అగాధం లో కూరుకొని పోకుండా తీసుకు రాగలము .

హింస, రక్తతర్పణాలు లేకుండా,

పిల్లల్ని తెగనరికే సంస్కృతి లేకుండా

మానవ జీవితం పై ఎలాంటి మచ్చలేకుండా,

అందరం శాంతితో బ్రతికేందుకు.

మేము, కేవలం ఒక ఇంటికోసం కలకన్నాము

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అయినా, నిర్భయా లాగే,

అసిఫా మరణిస్తుంది..

అయినా, మేమింకా మనుషులమే అని

భావిస్తాము…నిట్టూరుస్తాము!!

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