Poetic Delicacies from Mauritius

by

Jeewan Ramlugun

Written on August 2019

I see clean shiny floors

on corridors

that turn

into every direction.

I see and hear shuffling,

firm long

sturdy, steady strides,

lots of things

to be done.

I observe the conveying

of the helpless ailing,

by providence overseen

hopefully.

It is clinical, thankfully

not cold,

smiles and cheeriness

with due reticence,

as protocols demand,

in abundance.

The wait can seem

endless

yet optimism

there is nevertheless.

Jeewan Ramlugun BSc. MSc. CFCIPD FCMI FRSA.

Poet, Academic Researcher/Writer ,African Development Advisor.

Poetry Publications:

Wellsprings: Poems of Life & Nature( 323 pages, UK, 2010).

Poetry from Paradise ( 108 pages, Mauritius, 2010).

Bushy Park: A Collection of Poems( 221 pages, UK, 2015).

Mother & Memories( 110 pages, Mauritius,2022).

Hornbeam Dreams: A Collection of Poems( 182 pages, India, 2023).

by

Sandrani Kichenama

Even if it drowns,
It will never stop shining.
As I long as I breathe, I’ll adorn it as my crown
The gold dust of my dreams
That I hold strongly in my fist,
It may slips but never fade
That’s the power of my imaginations.

Call me imaginist,
I live for my vivid imaginations
Call me mythopoetic
My poems breathe the air of colors and hopes
I write because I want to make people experience the magic that they miss
I write because of love as love is all that matters to me.

A walk in a dark alley and that little escape to the moonlight in the starry sky;
That’s me and my connection with poetry
We are those little daisies that live in the bubble of our fantaisies
All of us lack that magic into our lives
That’s what I wish to create in my poems, The magic and The hope!

Sandrani Kichenama is an emerging writer and a poet.
She seeks to create a better standard of living for the society at large by promoting her writings to inspire people for higher good.

by

Anitah Aujayeb

My Property
Nor a golden studded palace
neither an air-conditioned cosy room
Not a long black dress with pearls
not a jaguar which glitters black
I need but pen and paper
with ink enough to last for eternity
You may build castles
You can open ‘sesame’ doors
keep the gold, keep the gems
spill your joys, drown your desires
leave but some coins for pen and paper
with ink enough to say what I want
when the shadows of clouds
hover around in circles
as the bright sun enters the horizon
light your house, fill your cup
let drift aside from under the curtain
some light to write what I can.
On the white paper of my life
paints the black ink, some sorrows
some pains, some sighs
deep felt inner needs slowly
move the paper and the pen
with sobs enough to last for ever.
Paper and pen, my shadows eternal
pen and paper, my life, my pains
travel through rains and sun
breathing life where life is not
I need my pen and paper
to make myself live to eternity.

A song, a smile, a line, these are things greater than riches of mighty kings

Long standing Educator, Part time Open University tutor, teaching English and Literature in English, Chairperson of the President’s Fund for Creative Writing, Ministry of Arts and Cultural Heritage.
A lover of languages, she is who is doing her best for the promotion of Mauritian literature

by

Alshaad Kara

Love oneself with all the heart,
And let the expectations shatter,
Leaving you with most beautiful
Experiences of life.

I apprehend that someday I unchaste
And all this would not lead to what we desired.

But know that I want to be with you.
Everyday, every night,
By dusk and the morning,
You’re but the only one worth loving…

That’s the own words of my beloved…

Time left me on my own,
With wounds that refuse to heal,
Flaming my heart to a gust.

By every nightfall where my heart plunges in that waterfall,
You are still the only one worth losing.
I apprehend that I am broken forever.

In this sea of twilight,
I am a well of iniquity
Smashed into little fragments of Evenfall.

The void in every one of us,
Is a permanent silence,
That listens to what we all want.

By every downfall that my heart surrenders to my unrequited love,

I am forever grateful,
Of this appreciation that everything is over between us,
Since then,
I just live away in those little fragments of memories…

Alshaad Kara is a Mauritian poet who writes from his heart. He won the 2023 “Zheng Nian Cup” Literary Award Third Prize. His latest poems were published in “The Social Rhyme”, “Spered Gouez”, “Caractère” and “Coin-Operated Press” and “Slamming Bricks Anthology 3rd Edition”.

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