MAHESWARI

Poet: Dr Phani Mohanty (Sahitya Akademi Awardee)
Translator: Dr Sonali Sahu

In which indefinable words
I will describe
Your beautiful face
Dazzling like a
Halfbloom Bajramali flower !

In which rituals
I shall worship you
Like a dedicated devotee
How will I welcome you ?

As far as the diva-ish
Dark blue hair of you
Spreads on the infinite cloudless sky
From there the begining
Of an empire of love.

You the sinless spirit
Unblemished
source of an imagination
You are an adorable one
The parody
Of my tumult fate.
Such dimond glided
Glittering chain of clouds
your loose end of
Ratna Odiani saree
The radiant rainbow
And the sparkling bead
Of your forehead.
Like an illusiory cloud
You are expanded
On the boundless sky
You are again the
trickling melody
Of a sweetened stream
Of a desolate universe.

You are an accomplishment of a devotee
Fragrance of a flower
Dream of Kalpabata
And the modest !
You are the passion of love and coy
Then you the all powerful
An epitome of love
You are the soul of my poem
Music, tone, rhythm and tune
Then you are the first drops of rain of July
You are serene, placid
Sky of an unending
Bluish sea.

I am encaged
In your untied silken hair forever
With these tottering feet of mine
This mad ignorant is absorbed time to time
In the dillusionary darkness
Of your Garbhagruha.

How can I describe you
From where the boundary of dream and fantacy end
From there your origin
And my final journey begins.