Utopia

By Supatra Sen

UTOPIA

Fire…smoke…death…horror
Lurking fear
Gruesome reality

Yet
The sunflowers bloom
 
In the throes of death
Shadows of dread
Trace the path of light
Undying
Bright…glorious…eternal
 
That sparkling flame
Must survive 
A dark tunnel
Flooded with loss…
 
Till
One day
The strife ends

A flock of white doves
Will soar the cloudless blue heights
Fearless
Millions of sunflowers
Will bloom in perpetual spring

Dr. Supatra Sen, Associate Professor, with over a hundred academic publications in Botany and Environment, is also the founder and Chief Editor of an ISSN peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal ‘Harvest’ since 2016. Her tryst with poetry writing and publishing began in 2020 during the global pandemic and in October 2021 her poetry anthology My Autumn Sonata was published.

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