Debarati’s fierce poetry roars to life on Different Truths.com, capturing untamed feminine power, mythical rebirth, and unstoppable, volcanic grace.
Her wild iris holds a dragon’s breath.
She inhales rhododendron, exhaling verse—
an ancient, unwritten goddess.
Unbound, unpenned, her spirit takes wing,
cleaving seven seas to strike the mountain crests.
She navigates the jagged terrain
with cold, magnetic grace—unshaken,
Medusa holding court in stone.
Within the dark knots of her hair,
a universe turns.
Her brazen chest wears scars like plate armour,
showcased in frames of steel.
No chain bites into that stride;
desire surges—an untamed Mississippi
breaking every levee in its wake.
She is the phoenix,
raking the ash,
rising to reclaim her fury.
Picture design: Anumita Roy
Debarati Sen, an award-winning poet from Kolkata, published two solo poetry collections and contributed to more than 10 anthologies. She has recently made it to the top 50 poets in the NaPoWriMo 2023 writing challenge, and her poem, ‘Maple Dreams’, has been selected for the Yearbook 2022 to be published by Hawakal Publishers. Her haiku have been published in Haikuniverse, Five Fleas, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Suspect Device, Pan Haiku Review, and the Horror Senryu journal.
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