Sunita Grover Raina (pen name) was raised in Kolkata, West Bengal,India. She is originally from Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. She graduated from Jadavpore University with an honours degree in Bachelor of Pharmacy. She retired as the Director of Drugs Control for the state of West Bengal. She was always an active sports person and represented her university as a captain for Table Tennis. She is fond of animals and loves music.
She suddenly started writing poetry in March ‘ 21 , at a ripe age of 61 and posted her poems in several online forums. She has won many awards and is well accepted as a natural poetess. She has never read poetry, except in her school days. She is working on her first book of poems which might be ready for publication by August ’22.
POEMS SUBLIME
Dedicated to Younas Rehman
If I could have
your magical quill
What lovely poems
I could have spilled
Though I too write
and place my thoughts
When read your poems
to heaven brought
A craving wish
takes birth within
To write like you ,
poems look a twin
I feel like stealing
all your poesies
Tie them tightly ,
use as rosaries
You are a poet
who speaks ‘HIS’ words
Your soul I read,
my soul you stirred
If I was got here
to rhyme and chime
It was also to read
your poems sublime.
©sunita grover raina2022
21/05/22
India
MY FRAGRANCE JASMINE
My love flies
with the fragrance of jasmine
to his door step
If you smell jasmine
know it is me
I do get whiffs of
sweet smelling flowers
reaching my room.
Strange those flowers are
not around me
But it touches me and goes
A pure soul passed by
or a lover’s thought
reached me
But surely
rejuvenating
Believe it or not
Love thoughts
do travel as fragrances
These may even be
from past births
And your receptors
Can sniff them out
as police dogs
Try it out
with the one you love
of this birth.
©sunita grover raina2021
16/07/21
India
MY MOON IN FULL BLOOM
You keep asking me
how much I love you dear
Can I say two cups full, five bottles full
Absurd is it not
But still I love the twinkle in your eyes
When I say , as much as there is
water in the ocean
And the ocean will never dry
My dear, my love for you
will be over flowing
from all the four chambers
of my heart
But still I love the twinkle in your eyes
When I spread my arms wide apart
and say this much
From one pole to the other pole of earth
My dear, my love for you
will ever be expanding
Just as this universe is
continuously forming
I love the love in your eyes
I love the love in your smile
The childish giggle touches my heart
as if you were given the moon
While I see my moon in full bloom
And they talk about the one in the sky.
©sunita grover raina2022
30/04/22
India
