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Solitary earth

Earth's lost balance sparks a hopeful quest for new dreams amid flowers and bittersweet dust

June 15, 2021

The earth has lost its balance.
Hundred years of walking over the sea of sands
Has built walls in her roots.

Like time travels under the sea
The earth evokes the splendor of awakening
In the eyes of the morning birds.
From the dream that was lost on the shore of the sky
I fail to assume winter fruits in summer’s song.
Hence I go plucking seeds from flower to flower,
From one sea to the other
With the hope of raising a home for her
In the field of butterflies.

Waking is a different dream.
And the earth that once dreamt to become a fairy,
Lives with us inside a tale of flowers and ashes.

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Oindri Sengupta

Oindri Sengupta (34years), is a poet based out of Kolkata. Her works have appeared in a few online and print journals like Muse India, Kritya, Ethos Literary Journal, Istanbul Literary Review, Chiron Review, Hudson View, Poetry Quarterly, USA, Contemporary Literary Review, India, Decanto, Penwood Review, USA and also in a couple of poetry anthologies. Apart from writing poetry, she also teaches English in a Govt. school in Kolkata.

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