Indus Valley Times

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

Such assemblage of
Charmless stars
On chest of the infinite
Who the unskilled portraitist
Awfully ornamented
Where?
Where have you been?
In anonymous, from an eons
No tone, no sound, no sign of you!

Where! Where are you lost
My dearest Drakhya ?
In senses or Elysium,
In terrestrial paradise or
The bright topaz heart of
an embellished celestial
with obscurity of twinkling ones,
in quiescence
of an indolent unknown planet,
In floated feathery clouds
Or an earnest void
Of a land of Dimond ?
Where! Where are you Drakhya?
unnoticeably disguised
unseen, lost
my Signora!
Where! Where are you?

Are you in the dissonant melody
Of a murky night
There in the unmusical jingle
Of a landed alien fowl,
In the delightful joy of a dazzling one ?
Drakhya!
Where are you?

Without you all inadequate
In the auspicious flash !
Quasi the chalice, withered betels,
Such yearn in love
and the separation,
Unfinished Nirvana, incomplete the death,
This fragmentary life
And dearth in bonding,
Coitus in vain, austerity futile
My Charm! My princess of prosperity !
Drakhya
Drakhya!