For Victoria Amelina
O Amelina, you’ve left
many punctuation marks
and ellipses behind
that your land would recall
after the war
O Amelina, do you know
without you
this world would look barren
as a tree looks after the autumn
O Amelina, do you know
a mother will continue to search
a small sapling in her half- brunt garden
that she’d planted before the war
O Amelina, do you know
Ukrainian sunflowers will miss you
every morning
and write a poem with their falling petals
on the lips of the land
every evening.
Note: Victoria Amelina was Ukrainian
author, who got severely injured by a Russian Iskander missile attack on 27th
June, 2023. She succumbed to injury on 1st July, 2023 at the age of
thirty seven.
Talking Eyes
Some
eyes meet
some
eye-lashes blink
some
narrate stories with no whisper
some
drink poems with no susurration
some
eyes have questions
pertaining
to some tenses
some
eyes have answers
filling
the void of some places
sitting
face to face
our
eyes talked in a train
as
a motion-picture they revealed something
as
a still-picture they hid many things
reaching
the destination
we
felt- we’ve to go beyond
some
called it was a journey
some
called it was destiny
to
us it was a story in silence
an
unsung humming in hearts
a
poem in youthful lovely eyes
a
canvas catching the rhythm of sighs.
O.P.Jha writes poems and fictions. His works have
appeared in many reputed journals including “The Indian Literature”, “The
Daily Tribune”, “Rigorous” (poems), “Rigorous” (Fiction), “Mantis”,
“You Might Need To Hear This”, “Punt Volat”, “Zoetic Press” etc.. He
is the author of an inspiring book “Management Guru Lord Krishna”. He
has a Doctorate degree in “Translation Studies”. Email: opjha189@yahoo.com , twitter: @OP Jha17
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