ANOUCHEKA GANGABISSOON - POEMS

Anoucheka Gangabissoon is a Primary School Educator in Mauritius.  She writes poetry and short stories as hobby.  She considers writing to be the meaning of her life as she has always been influenced by all the great writers and wishes to be, like them, immortalized in her words.  Her works can be read on poetrysoup.com and she had also appeared in various literary magazines like SETU, Different Truths, Dissident Voice, In Between Hangovers Press, WISH Press, Tuck’s Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, among others.  She has also been published in Duane’s Poetree and also in two anthologies for the Immagine and Poesia group.  Her poems are often placed in free online contests.  She has been selected to be among the Most Influential Women in Mauritius for the 2017 category Arts and Culture and she has also been awarded as a Promising Indian for the year 2017 for the same category.  In 2018 and 2019, she was again selected to be among the Most Influential Women of the island for her contribution to the literary field and in 2019, she was one of the three nominees for the National Awards organized by the Ministry of Arts and Culture of Mauritius.

Hello Life, From my confinement

​Hello Life
I'm writing from my confinement area
Because, finally,
After more than thirty years,
I've found the time to!

Life,
You are a mystery
A puzzle
On top of being a punisher!

You have attracted me from
When I was up there
Swivelling in the cosmic energy
Of the Universe
Through the colours that you reflect
In both day time and night time
More,
I saw people laughing happily
And I told myself
This must be a world of pleasure!

You showed me only a part of your truth
You showed me only childhood and innocence
You refrained from showing me old age,
Disease and the hurt of having one's purity
Remaining unacknowledged!

Now,
As I swim in your murky waters
All I ever do
Is to wish I never came here!

You remain an intelligent bluffer
And I, a fool, having fallen for your art!
You remain a fake crystal
Glistening as would a genuine one
And I fell for your sparkles
Only to see how easily you rust
And lose your lustre!

Life,
Please, 
Somehow, show me the exit
Towards where wisdom and divinity
Bask and I
Shall ever be grateful to you!

I sit and wait for Death

​I sit and watch the skies
As would old people
Having already lived their lives
And seen the world
But being way too tired to
Have any strength in them
To move their bodies
And claim to own the world!

I sit and watch life 
As it saunters on its way
Ignorant that it swivels
Upon uncertainty
That shall lead it to nowhere!

I sit,
Fiddle my fingers
And wonder at how life would have been
Had I not chosen to stick 
To the principles given to me
By those powers watching over me
Ever so subtly!

I sit,
And dream 
Of feminine freedom,
Of letting the wind rush through my unruly hair
And of being wild
As would be untamed tribes in unexplored forested areas!

Why,
I sit, from my confined position
And watch the skies,
Wondering at where shall death take me!

Healing!

​Is Earth angry at us?
Is Earth trying to punish us
By making us cough to our deaths?

If so,
Then, it is high time
To realise that
We are to change our habits
And our lifestyle
To a more reclusive
And orthodox one
To be in line
With Earth's healthy clime!

We have been jumping on her soils
As pampered brats
Caring solely to please ourselves
Without any regard
To our environment!

We have even been massively killing
All the flora and the fauna
Merely to reap of their benefits
To suit our needs
Without ever wondering
At how Earth feels
At having to give us all that she does!

Pray,
Earth's anger will pass,
It always does
But like a shining light in a reflecting mirror
The doom and gloom can hit right back at us
If we hold not
Earth's heart in our palms
And cherish it dearly!