ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସନେଟ "ହୁଲିଡ଼ଙ୍ଗା"/ TRANSLATED ENGLISH SONNET "LIFEBOAT"

LIFEBOAT

My life has solemnly taken an oath to live at all costs,

Thus, singing tearful songs, I'm blooming smiles on lips' petals!

In the torturous mango groves heartful impulses set the music,

My morose mind looks for the moon's lustre at nights dark and tragic!

I'm a dimming lamp of hope in the pessimistic hurricanes 

On the laps of fallen flowers, I'm the plunging sweet fragrance,

In the distant sky upon a desert I'm a patch of fleeting floating cloud,

I'm ever a wayfarer unwanted and uncalled for inside a nameless shroud!

I'm the scrap of a missive without any destination or any address,

I'm the singeing base of an earthen diya that ever negotiates with darkness,

I symbolize bereavement since marriage like a lost sandy river sans rains,

My tyrannous works, since birth, have been composing death's quatrains !

Yes, I'm a lost life boat, in the faraway sea, prone to tempests,

In the poor thatched cottage of Time, I'm a torn and worn address!

Copyright: Dr. Shankar D Mishra, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 19.04.2023

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N.B. – The above Sonnet is the English version of an original Odia Sonnet “ହୁଲିଡ଼ଙ୍ଗା /HULIDANGA" written by Mrs. Amrita Singh, a teacher by profession, Jajpur, Odisha.

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