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Life
Basudev Mallik Do you see the bird swimming
across the azure?
Basudev Mallik, widely acclaimed as a perfectionist in Its euphoric freedom never ends
language, hails from the Temple City of Bhubaneswar, till the dome vanishes.
Odisha. Mallik has spent his entire career as a journalist, Do you listen to the silvery song
mostly in the department of editing. He took interest in
of the care-free stream?
writing poetry since his school days in both Gurgling, it glides on into your heart
languages—Odia, his mother tongue as well as English that
till you feel never soused.
enchanted him as a foreign language. Mallik stands strongly
Have you ever watched the blossoms
against the misconception of poetry being beyond the ambit
of editing, the plea being “it is 'spontaneous overflow of rock and roll in gay abandon
emotions'”. Good poetry, edited or unedited, stands out in to the tune of the breeze
form and quality. Mallik, to his credit, has written over five in utter ecstacy?
hundred poems, carving time out of his busy schedule, many It's all a mirror….
of which have been published in various magazines and A mirror to your life
periodicals. Young at 69, he is currently engaged as a senior that never ceases to murmur
editor at the Odia Virtual Academy of the state government, till it merges into the Ocean.
taking care of rare books, scriptures and films being uploaded
to the Academy website.
The Vulture
It swooped down on the earth
from beyond the bustling mountains
squeezing the entire globe
under its ominous wings,
I prefer to stifling the flow of oxygen
instill confidence into the trembling trachea.
among my Nations call it pandemic
I call it a viral holocaust
friends than
artfully waged against
supporting them an unwary world,
leaving almost all
for ever
gasping in their confines,
snatching all their means,
and breaking backbones.
...Author
If ever smokes do rise
on land, at sea or in the sky
it looks like to be
a fiesta of triumph
against the Mafioso.
@Basudev Mallik
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