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Can You Define Me?
                                                                                  Mausumi Kalita Sachdeva

                                                                                                                                                                                       This night I ponder
                                                                       The Author of 'Lockdown Stories 1 and 2', 'The Pride of Being Different', 'Love                                 Studying the meaning of my life
                                                                       Remains Undefined' and 'Making Impossible Possible', and 'The Blend of the Real and
                                                                                                                                                                                       Which let me to wonder
                                                                       Imagination',  Mousumi  Kalita  Sachdeva  is  an  Author  Coach,  Skill  Development
                                                                       Trainer,  a  columnist,  an  internationally  published  poet,  motivational  speaker  and                      How the dictionary fails
                                                                       Editor of Damick Publication and Turquoise Publication. She is a ghost writer too and                           To find a word to define me!
                                                                       has contributed richly in writing many books. She is presently serving as the Content                           I flip the pages of my life
                                                                       Writer and Editor at Beginup Research Intelligence Private limited. She is also serving as                      Travel to the past
                                                                       the Editor in Chief of yoursnews.in a media portal. She has done her Masters in English,                        Searching for that one word
                                                                       Mass  Communication  &  Journalism,  B.Ed,  IT,  CISELT,  and  presently  pursuing                              Which could define me.
                                                                       Masters in Psychology and practising NLP. She has been training and teaching in many                            The pages are psychedelic
                                                                       institutions in various parts of India and has established herself as a writer contributing
                                                                                                                                                                                       With no distinct term
                                                                       in many Newspapers, Magazines and Anthologies. She has edited many books and has                                I turn the empty pages
                                                                       contributed to more than 20 National and International Anthologies. Her views can be
                                                                                                                                                                                        of my future
                                                                       read in the two very popular newspapers 'Daily Excelsior' and 'Early Times' of Jammu
                                                                                                                                                                                       To find them unfilled
                                                                       and Kashmir. Life is a travel for her, filled with teaching, training, social service and
                                                                       attending  and  delivering  training  workshops  at  various  universities,  colleges  and                      yet kaleidoscopic
                                                                       organizations.  She  has  been  honoured  at  the  2019  AWWA  Day  as  an  India's                             still without an absolute term
                                                                       inspirational figure to the families of Indian Army. She has been awarded as one among                           to define me.
                                                                       India's most inspirational writer 2018 by The Indian Awaz. She has also been awarded                            I smile and let my life live
                                                                       with 'Nobel Laureate Kabi Rabindranath Tagore Award 2020'.                                                      In the vast canvas of words
                                                                                                                                                                                       Playing with every letter
                                                                                                                                                                                       With no word to define
                                                                                                                                                                                       But with every word to rhyme.

                                                                                                                                                                                       Unrestrain Me


                                                                                                                                                                                       My wings tethered flutter restlessly
                                                                                                                                                                                       To unfetter and fly fearlessly
                                                                                                                                                                                       Aah! I find no way
                                                                                                                                                                                       I am entangled.
                                                                                                                                                                                       Time laughs at me as it flies
                                                                                                                                                                                       I silently bear as my heart cries
                                                                                                                                                                                       Aah! The torturous travesty
                                                                                                                                                                                       My hopes scrambled.
                                                                                                                                                                                       I scuffle to let myself free
                                                                                                                                                                                       I find no one to plea
                                                                                                                                                                                       Aah! The world out is a dead sea
                                                                                                                                                                                       My freedom lay trampled.
                                                                                                                                                                                       I sigh silently wrapping myself
                                                                                                                                                                                       With my tethered wings
                                                                                                                                                                                       In the closed cage
                                                                                                                                                                                       With an undying gaze.        @Mausumi Kalita Sachdeva

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