Misna Chanu's poems are the call of her soul

Mandira Ghosh *

The Silent Whispers
By
Misna Chanu

Published by Authorspress
Year- 2022

Misna Chanu is a committed poet. Her brilliant verses are not just soul touching whispers, but deep, sensitive outpourings from her heart. Readers will certainly be enthralled reading her humane poems with personified love that is just not about sensuality but beyond mundane. Her mind speaks of the illuminated truths with dignity and she pens looking at her society sometimes in deep troubles. Hers is the voice of the muffled melodies. Her poems are the call of her soul.

According to the sensitive poet, with extraordinary expressions, the voices of infirm, women, orphans, suffering humanity and the disillusioned are mute, are muffled are just as silent whispers and the verses are primarily dedicated to them.

A humanitarian, she writes, For the unsung heroes of the nation,
........
I do not mean only those names/ History has ever recorded with pride/And as legendary stories,
But all those souls / Who have fought for this freedom ......

The poems such as “I Don't Want Another Son of God to be Crucified” and "Maybe It's Easier to Take Side” are just a few examples of her humane and sensitive soul. She writes with her tears and gentle words, these significant poems.

The poet's mother seems to have inspired her as she pens in a remarkable poem “Mother’s Voice”. She pens in a blissful note, a simple but profound note.

In mother's tongue /you speak to me /words of love/
both silence and song /have found peace/ Inside my soul .......
(Mothers Voice.......)

In her poem, titled “How long”, She pens the following amazing lines
How long do the petals have to bleed
Because of the thorns? .......

In her concluding poem, “Maybe This is not a Goodbye”, she wonders and writes in a poignant tone. whether she will be recognised by the scars on her soul or whether the moon will still be shining or inflict more pain. How very true!

Writes the poet in preface the following beautiful line.

I do not dream of a paradise
But I dream of a world
Where no garden is devoid of flowers
And no heart is devoid of love!
– Misna Chanu

Misna Chanu

No wonder her verses are strained with the silent cries of the unborn poems as we readers wait for more from her. Indeed, as she pens, her dreams are too tender, to sustain in the sun. She can be compared to pearls who sleep in silence in spite of storms and tides. Metaphors she uses brilliantly.

But her poems may turn into a powerful voice when her concern for tomorrow's children, in poems such as “Darlings of the Earth” and “The Children of the Lost World” become exemplifying of a distinct powerful voice.

She talks for lovely children may be orphans because of none but for our own fault. The poet's heart bleeds for whose lives have lost due to war and violence, whose mothers cry because their sons are killed, daughters are raped and those whose husbands are killed too, in this pathetic state of mankind.

In conclusion, I must write, the poems are cathartic outpourings of a tender and deeply hurt heart which she brings in a brilliant poetic form.

Misna Chanu is a bilingual Poetess, author, translator and editor, artist, humanitarian, a post graduate in Botany, born in Assam, India. Since childhood, she has been writing poetry in her mother tongue (Manipuri), later she started writing poetry and short stories in English.

She has published three poetry books, one short story’s book for children and edited six poetry books. Her poems have been translated into 15 languages and published in journals, anthologies and magazines worldwide.

Mandira Ghosh (an eminent poet and author of Delhi)