Soubhagyabanta Maharana (India) Odisha, is an eminent bilingual poet and critic of Odia and English. He has 19 Poetry books to his credit and  5 Essay collections . His several English poems have been published in the national and international  magazines . He has received many literary awards  including  the prestigious Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 for poetry. Besides,  his poems have been translated into a good number of Indian languages.

English

MIGRATION OF MANKIND

The aftermath of deadly war
Causes migration of mankind
When cries of a million tears
Create whispers  amid the panicky wind.
With tender agonies of bleeding heart
Mankind shudders with fear
To embrace the unpleasant migration
Dwelling somewhere in acute penury.

The irony of fate
Compels a man to live
With a dead soul
As if  colour of blood
Has turned into black
To frown upon his lazy luck.
Sometimes life is just like
A  murmur of rustling leaf
For a migratory man’s cursed life
Awaiting the gray spring
To signal his momentary breath.

Migration virtually invigorates
The  spirit of struggle for existence
Enlivens the shadows of life
Dispelling shivering  darkness of nightmares
To be enchanted with sweet dreams
Of a lovely moon-lit night.
Nobody never cares
For the boiling and bleeding humanity
When migration mounts upon mankind
To efface his foot-prints
On the sands of fleeting time.