Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Nocturnal Reflections
It is said that, in this world
Love flows
As would a river,
Clear and straight forward!
It is also said
That, like the river,
Love can also change its course
Merging into small tributaries
And going wherever it wills
Before realizing,
That, in the end,
Whichever way it chooses to go,
It will have to merge into the
ocean!
In my love story,
I am the ocean,
Wild, raging and fearsome at
times,
And calm, soothing and beautiful
At others!
In my love story,
The ocean remains as it has been
made to
Wondering at when will the
drought
That has struck the Earth end,
So that
The waters needed to merge with
it
Will come to it,
Even though it needs them not,
But, rather,
Seeks them,
Because it loves them!
It is said that time takes on its
course
And patience is a God given gift,
It is said that when one is armed
with it,
One can conquer everything,
Even despair, as it weighs upon
us
When the clock strikes midnight!
The Late Hour
The mirror reflected a shadowy figure
And I could not help but feel
stoned,
Not even scared
As, nothing mattered anymore
And nothing will ever do!
The purpose of my life
Has met with its closure
And all I care to do now
Is to sit and reflect
Upon the sovereignty of death
Over life, in a world which holds
Secrets as to its own origin and
meaning!
The hour was late
And rain lashed out against my
window,
Seemingly more aggrieved than I
was
And bidding me to understand
That the darkness that surrounds
me
Shall fade into dawns,
Under the magical spell of
creation,
While the one in me,
Shall remain so for as long as I
would be!
Once, thought I by looking at the
shadowy figure,
Once, the reflection was bolder,
Somewhat convinced that old age
Is a disease which shall strike
others
While I shall keep my strength
and my capabilities!
But now,
At this late hour,
The truth of life slammed me in
the face
And I shivered
As I heard the shadowy reflection
Laughing back sneeringly at me!
Midnight Wishes
How I wish,
To see Love,
As willed to me by skies,
Feverish and drunk in yearning
for me
At the call of midnight!
How I wish,
To see him
Pull me in his need,
Pushing me under him
And impregnating me with
Orgasmic thrills
Before whispering to my soul
Of how much I mean to him
And of how he would never be
Able to live without me!
But wishes shall remain whims
Which shall be turned into
poetry;
Legacy of my mystical footprint
In a world which could never be
mine!
Yet,
There is, all around me,
A wall, a fortress, and a moat
And I live in my own world,
Someplace where the clock's hour
Can be changed at will
And someplace where my wishes
Materialize as I wish them to!
And those wishes
I have simply turned them
Into treasures
Which I buried in my backyard
When the moon was full
In the night sky!
ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON
ANOUCHEKA
GANGABISSOON is a Primary School Educator in
Mauritius. She writes poetry and short stories as
hobby. She considers writing to be the meaning of her life as she
has always been influenced by all the great writers and wishes to be, like
them, immortalized in her words. Her works can be read on poetrysoup.com and
she had also appeared in various literary magazines like SETU, Different
Truths, Dissident Voice, In Between Hangovers Press, WISH Press, Tuck’s
Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, among others. She has also been
published in Duane’s Poetree and also in two anthologies for the Immagine and
Poesia group. Her poems are often placed in free online
contests. She has been selected to be among the Most Influential
Women in Mauritius for the 2017 category Arts and Culture and she has also been
awarded as a Promising Indian for the year 2017 for the same
category. In 2018 and 2019, she was again selected to be among the
Most Influential Women of the island for her contribution to the literary field
and in 2019, she was one of the three nominees for the National Awards
organized by the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Mauritius. In 2020,
she was shortlisted to be among the Most Impactful Women of the year for the
Women of the Year awards.
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