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.  In 2020, she was shortlisted to be among the Most Impactful Women of the year for the Women of the Year awards. 

Letting go

Cling on to me,
Breathed life in my tearful face
Cling on to me
As if you leave me,
I lose your energy
Much needed to sustain my soul!

The pain weighing over me
Was getting too heavy
And my fingers
Clinging on to the ropes of life
Were getting weaker
Unable to hold on!

Don't you know, continued life
That those who give up
Are given worse fates
Than those who make it
To their fate's ends?

I looked down at the seas raging 
Beneath my feet
And I wondered
At how wonderful must it be
To be mermaid
Gliding gracefully through the waters,
So much that
I did not feel the impact of my fall,
As my transformation was
Way too overwhelming!

 ​Viral Haiku

​Days tap heavy feet
Upon similar essence
Of life's mirage

Empty days echo
Sweaty beds reverberate
Clocks keep ticking by

Dozing dawns and dusks
Threatened by viral virus
Dreams shattered boldly

Hands joined together
Humans face the dull despair
Waiting for rescue

Yet, desolate world
Only sings a lullaby
As a ray of hope