Ranjana Sharan Sinha
Ghazal- 13
Fossilized
footprints on the heart like Meenakari art, I wonder!
The webs of quiet
moments reach the corridors of midnight, I wonder!
The anaesthesia
of love, the fond illusion and the surreal moon--
Weave a silver
metallic dream, give delight and depart, I wonder!
Soft, nocturnal
breaths of night- blooming jasmine fill the cool air with scent,
The drifting
waterlilies open their red cups at last, I wonder!
Anthems of spring
and the magic echo in the stillness of midnight,
Some ragged
bushes cry for crimson petals standing apart, I wonder!
Some thoughts
travel on the winding roads of mind-- I feel the night within:
Ranjana, beauty
is a transient flame willing to dart, I wonder!
Ghazal-14
Some tribes in a
dark midnight-- unnamed children of misery.
With a dim
lachrymose moon in the domain of misery.
The rickshaw
puller after pedalling for so many hours,
Sleeps on the
pavement amid a caravan of misery.
The night with a
thousand hideous faces mocks and conspires,
The man with a
wretched life on a mountain of misery!
Darkness, traffic
bleats, mosquitoes-- define the midnight moments,
Dreams can never
grow on the rocky terrain of misery,
Forlorn hours,
Ranjana, heavy with home reminiscences,
Spectres of
unrest are constant companions of misery!
Ghazal-15
A nocturnal tryst
of the sky with an argent white beauty in midnight--
A carve-out of
melted platinum, an effulgent glory in midnight.
The amazon of
love meanders-- verdant rainforests in pounding hearts,
No stars, no
clouds, let time stop amid breaths and whispers husky, in midmight!
The river mingles
with the ocean, the blue mountains kiss the floating clouds,
The wind hugs the
heaving bosom of the sea-- a mystery in midnight!
Love and
friendship in an ever-changing world are nothing but fragile drops
On the flowers of
passion that morph into tears salty at midnight.
The drizzle and
the downpour of love, Ranjana, or the fire and the burn?
An illogical
logic or a magic with dreams rosy in midnight?
RANJANA SHARAN SINHA
Dr. RANJANA
SHARAN SINHA: Poet-author-critic and a professor of English. A well-known
contemporary voice in Indian English Poetry with international recognition. Her
Poems 'She's Gone Forever' and 'The Silent Shore' are included in the syllabus
prescribed for M.A.(English),4 sem, Purnea University, Purnia.Poems, short
stories, articles and research papers published in a number of dailies,
magazines, e-zines, archives and journals of global repute including Sahitya
Akademi's Indian Literature both online and in print. Poems widely anthologised
in highly-acclained anthologies of OPA, Inner Cild Press, Atunis Galaktika,
Indie Blu(e) Publishing, USA, Anthology of Poetry by Sufi International World,
India, etc.Recipient of many awards for her poems and contribution to
literature: Best Poet Award, Poets International, Bangalore; Commendation from
the former President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for her poem' Mother Nature';
Rashtriya Pratibha Samman, Udaipur, Brij Sahityamani Samman, Agra, Best Teacher
Award, Nagpur Shikshan Mandal, Nagpur, Best Citizens of India, International
Publishing House, New Delhi, A Citation of Brightest Honour, International Sufi
Centre, Bangalore and many more.Authored and published 08 books in different
genres and more than 50 research papers:1. Spring Zone( A collection of poems
and Haiku) 2. Midnight Sun (A Collection of short stories) 3. Nature in the
Poetry of Wordsworth and Pant (A comparative-critical study) 4. Feminism: Times
and Tides (A historiographical and theoretical commentary on Feminism) 5. Different
Dimensions (A compilation of research papers presented in different national
and international conferences and seminars) 6. Scents and Shadows (A collection
of Poems) 7. Rhymes for Children 8. The Purple Jacaranda (A collection of
poems). Her PhD thesis was on "Sri Aurobindo and the Epic Tradition".
She is associated with many international poetry groups and literary
organisations. One of the members of the Editorial Boared, OPA.Research
supervisor (English literature), RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India.
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