ANIL KUMAR PANDA

ANIL KUMAR PANDA

THIS SIDE THAT SIDE

A flower

Born in a dry land

Of hunger and pain

A sapling

Planted in summer

Forever waits for rain

A cloud

Wandering across

The sky to get lost

A creeper

Needing sunlight

Gets buried in frost

That is how

My life swings in

Between joy and pain

Sometimes it

Is scorching summer

Sometimes torrential rain

YOU LOVE ME

I love your face when you throw

A smile at me and escape

The dense bunch of hair swings

Across your shapely nape

I love your lips when you color

Them in a faint red

The eyes look at me full with love

And have lovely shade

I love you for your sweet song

In the break of dawn

The sound of your anklets fills

The air in the cool dawn

I love you when you say I love

You and run away

You wink from behind the door

To see me lucky and gay

LET ME GO TO THE PAST

Let me go to the past

To stay there for a long while

To watch my life passing by

With kins following in a file

Let me go to the past

To watch where I did wrong

Why I have much suffering

Why I am not rich and strong

Let me go the past

To watch who pulled my leg

Who really back stabbed me

Who made me weak to beg

Let me go to the past

To watch who really did care

For me to grow and succeed

Who lifted me from despair

Let me go to the past

To watch who for me did pray

For my happiness and growth

And for a man of ink I am today

Anil Kumar Panda

ANIL KUMAR PANDA is from Odisha. He is working as a mine surveyor in a coal mine in the small town, Brajrajnagar. Reading and writing are his passion. A published poet, he is presently working on his third book of poems. His two books are Fragrance of Love and Melody of Love.