Bismay Mohanty

The sky had a vast sea of clouds floating in it with the rays of sunbeams traversing in distinguished harmony through them. Me and my roommates, were having a casual walk around the campus. It was in the fresher year when people try hard to make selections for their life partners or friends with similar interests. We three belonged to the normal community of nothingness and mostly remained within our circle. It was around six in the evening and my roommates, both belonging to the same section, were reminded of the need to buy some stationery material from the town. They boarded the bus and I was left all alone.  Thinking about the lake behind the hostel, I made a quick decision to go to the spot. I had been there once before, for taking bath with my friends but in the evening, nobody would go there without purpose. So I made way through the little gap beneath the campus boundary and climbed upwards to the railway tracks and began walking slowly enjoying every cha...

A murder of crows on the branches of a tree In vicinity to my window pane I see On the Sunday morning, being indolent It’s a great time to gaze at all irrelevant. Coos and caws and rattles and clicks to heed I had fallen asleep too late, forgot to feed No signs of leftovers, nothing new to provide Previous night went on empty stomach and chide. A kind never thinks and does things Craving attention with show off of emotions Sometimes leading to deliberation after deplorable And crows caw till the silence becomes inaudible. Another species epitomizes downfall here Who never waged a war out of fear And to chicks, come tell stories of their bravery Maintaining supremacy out of words in secrecy. Another who had a smirk on its face Profoundly talkative but receives no solace For all the worries come from others Who were praised with words of a soother Later, on discovery, they knew this crow Was something who can’t see anyone grow Thus. wi...