Bharati Nayak

 

Bharati Nayak

 

Grandma’s Stories

 

Every night,

When I go to sleep,

I sing lullabies,

To myself,

And tell Grandma's stories,

Where there is a Prince

And a Princess

There are also wicked demons and ghosts,

There is a fight,

Between good and evil,

Between the Prince and the demons,

But the flowers, birds and animals,

Side with the Prince,

The demon is sure to die,

The story will certainly,

Have a happy ending.

(Otherwise, how can I sleep?)

 

 

Love-The Endless

 

I was swinging in dreams

As a hand extended from sky

A hand of mercy, a hand of kindness

Wiped away my tears.

 

My being is stirred

My consciousness is arisen

To mingle in that boundless source of love.

 

My consciousness,

rises in upward flight and

Spreads from earth to sky

The thorny bushes and boundaries,

Stone walls and iron chains

Surrounding me

Get shattered and swept away.

 

Oh Power, the Ultimate!

I become powerful,

By being blessed by you

My Being loses its separateness

As I become one with you.

 

 

Moon

 

Moon!

When did we meet first?

Was it at my birth?

Or was it

When I was planted in my mother's womb

In a night lit by you

And saw you through my mother's eyes,

Who dreamt a child like you

Lovely, beautiful and tender?

But our relationship is for ages

Since you circled the Mother earth

Born out of a chunk

From earth's womb!

 

My mother introduced you as 'Jahna Mamu'

The Moon uncle

And I always desired to go near you

And when this earth's scientists went to you

In flesh and blood

You remained no more a distant mystery

In their camera they captured images

That are rough, sandy, rocky

Even there are no greeneries

Like our earth

Nor are there any birds or flowers

But I wonder

In spite of no life

How you look beautiful

From this distance!

 

BHARATI NAYAK

 

BHARATI NAYAK ,born in the year 1962  is a bilingual poet ,critic and translator from Bhubaneswar,India.She has done her graduation from Ravenshaw College ,Cuttack and Post Graduation from Utkal University ,Bhubaneswar.Her poems have been published in more than hundred  books,e-books and magazines of national and international repute such as Amaravati Poetic Prism.Tranquill Muse, Rock Pebbles,Odisha Review,Poesis Nova Literature,Poetry Against Terror,The Circular Whispers,OPA Anthology and the like.She has so far published  eight  books.1-Padma Pada (A Poetry book in Odia) 2-Words Are Such Perfect Traitors(English Poetry Anthology) 3-A Day For Myself(English Poetry Anthology) 4-In The Realms of Love and Divinity(Poetry book written jointly with the  German Poet Dr.Antony Theodore) 5-Radical Rhythm  Volume - 1,Volume-2,Volume -3 and Volume -4(Written jointly with members of Cosmic Crew ) .She worked as the Editor for Radical Rhythm Volume-3. She has been conferred with Sahitya Lahari award by International Cosmos Society,India in 2018 and Star Ambassador of World Poetry And Art  Philosophique Poetica International Award in Literature  by the World Poetry Conference in Bhatinda,Punjab .India in 2019.