Biajy Mohanty

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Biajy Mohanty Biography

Bijay Mohanty, born in a beautiful village in Odisha, took a degree in Mechanical Engineering and worked in a steel plant before joining Indian Civil Service. He is an itinerant civil servant who travels the length and breadth of the country and abroad on work and for fun. His short fictions and poetry have appeared in many magazines both electronic and print. He has even been awarded by Femina and Sulekha, for his short fictions. But he claims poetry is his first love. His first book of poems “Moored to the Shadow” has been published in 2013. He can be reached at bjlekha@gmail.com.)

The Best Poem Of Biajy Mohanty

Adultery

The prone body,
A tangled mass of desire, lay panting
bundled in flesh and betrayal.

I lurked greedy
At the end of a crime and
At the threshold of another…..
Jagged ends of moments past
drawing crimson pain.

How long can the body resist
The temptations of unfettered freedom,
the selfish pleasures of numb senses,
the wiles of a manipulating self?

I succumb
At the altar of the dark angels
To the hydra-headed goddess of pleasure
But not before
paying homage to the lost soul
of broken innocence
at the shrine of my entombed love.

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