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JAYANTA MAHAPATRA
Poet and Writer
ADDRESS:
Tinkonia Bagicha,
Cuttack 753 001, Orissa
Tel: 0671 617434
ILLUSTRIOUS
CAREER
With a background of M.Sc. in Physics, his contributions to
the mystical world of poetry have been incredible , winning him both
national and international fame as a much celebrated poet.
IMPORTANT
WORKS:
Ten twentieth Century Indian Poets(anthology)
Literary
Olympians II(anthology)
Close the Sky, Ten by Ten (English)
Bare
Face (English)
Life Signs (English)
Bali: The Victim (
Oriya)
Kahibi Gothie Katha: I Will Tell a Story( Oriya)
Baya Raja:
The Mad Emperor (Oriya)
HONORS
First
Prize in Scottish International Open Poetry Competition
Second Prize
for International Who's Who in Poetry, London
Jacob Gladstein Memorial
Award, Chicago
Sahitya Akademi Award
Gangadhar National
Award
Ramakrishna Jaidayal Harmony Award
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A Rain of
Rites
Sometimes a rain
comes
slowly across the sky, that turns
upon its grey cloud,
breaking away into light
before it reaches its
objective.
The rain I have known
and traded all this life
is thrown like kelp on the beach.
Like some
shape of conscience I cannot look at,
a malignant purpose in a nun's
eye.
Who was the last man
on earth,
to whom the cold cloud brought the blood to his
face?
Numbly I climb to the mountain-tops of ours
where my own soul
quivers on the edge of answers.
Which still, stale air
sits on an angle's wings?
What holds my rain so it's hard to
overcome?
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