Thursday, February 15, 2018

A Missing Person Comments

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In the darkened room
a woman
cannot find her reflection in the mirror

waiting as usual
at the edge of sleep

In her hands she holds
the oil lamp
whose drunken yellow flames
know where her lonely body hides
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Jayanta Mahapatra
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Dr Antony Theodore 15 February 2020

In her hands she holds the oil lamp whose drunken yellow flames know where her lonely body hides. very fine poem. tony

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Jayanta Mahapatra

Jayanta Mahapatra

Cuttack / India
Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra
Cuttack / India
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