NAMITA RANI PANDA

NAMITA RANI PANDA

WHAT I WISH YOU TO BE!

My children!

Don't you want to know why I call you all

In the name of different animals?

My Monkey, Donkey, Parrot, Rabbit, Squirrel!

I do intensely love and respect animals

So innocent and cute and loyal above all

They're splendid beings with no pretense

Though may not possess high intelligence

Never ever they are guided by greed

Nor do they crave for more than what they really need

Never ever they master malicious tricks

Nor do they worry for future or cry over split milk

Devoid of speech and complicated expressions

Love for them is the best means of communication

Never ever they kill with evil intention

Only for satisfying hunger and self protection

They respond to love and never do betray

Listen lovingly to what you say

I wish you to possess all these traits

That humans have lost in the name of progress

Like animals you are lovely and loving

Be like them , a true human being!

A UNIQUE SOLUTION

“My pristine pure love I do offer you dear

As an ardent lover I completely surrender.”

“Trace back dear, change your mind,

At this stage love can never be blind.”

“Love is ever blind to the walls of this world

beyond time and space, flesh and blood.”

“Will you love my grey rough hair

That’s getting thinner with the light kiss of aging ,dear?"

“Your hair is like the drifting amorphous clouds in the sky

With which as a crispy soothing breeze I’d love to inhale and play.”

“And the wrinkled skin that’s no more fair

With the touches of age, it has lost its glare?”

“The wrinkles are your sacrifices down the ages

That for your soothing solace I’d love to caress”

“My hollowed eyes are devoid of dreams and hopes

Unattractive are my sunken cheeks and parched lips”

“Your eyes are deep oceans where I prefer to dive again and again,

I feel the untold stories hidden in your lovely lips and cheeks though dry and sunken.”

“Stained are my nails, rough and gnarled my fingers

Repulsive and disfigured are they doing daily chores.”

“The fingers that rock cradle and rear a family can only be loving, never be ugly

That I’d love to sooth with my soft lips only.”

“You have never marked my bulging womb

Defaced with stretchmarks as a dilapidated tomb.”

“Your womb is the earth that bears unbearable pain

The stretch marks are lovely signatures of your selfless creations.”

“Have you ever marked my sagging breasts

That can never satisfy your unrequited thirst?”

“What matters me more is the heart hidden behind

You’ve mistaken, thirsty is my soul, not body or mind.”

“The heart you seek dear is no more mine

So, you give a second thought and change your mind.”

“I am a slave to my helpless heart

Walking on a one-way path, no chance to depart.”

“Then you’re left with one option only: Like the sun just watch from a distance

When around my axis and orbit I pirouette and dance.”

I LOVE YOU POET

In my darkest night

When there is no source of light

Your words twinkle like stars

That solace my soul, though afar!

In my gloomy days when I lose hope and grit

Your lines are a grand treat

That uplift my dark spirit

And inspires me to embrace life, though bitter/sweet.

When I stumble and stagger in the path of life

Your words hums to my heart that every hurdle is brief

And when I am distracted from my destination

Your creation guides me to follow the right direction.

From your words drops of honey drip

Which my heart gluttonously sips

With its parched thirsty lips

And I feel as if free from sin after a holy dip!

I see my tear and smile hidden in your lines

Like the salt in the water of a deep ocean

I lose myself in your lines full of beauty

I mingle with you, an inseparable entity

And oblivion of my existence I fall in love with your lines

A bond so pure, unselfish and supremely sublime!

NAMITA RANI PANDA

Mrs NAMITA RANI PANDA is a poet, story writer and translator from Sambalpur district of Odisha, India. She now works as Vice-Principal of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Cuttack under the Ministry of HRD, Deptt. of School Education and Literacy , Govt. of India . She is entrusted with the responsibility of Principal I/C, JNV Bijapur, Chhatisgarh Her two published Anthologies of poems are Blue Butterflies and Rippling Feelings. Her poems are highly acclaimed in many National and International magazines and journals. Her signature words are love and optimism. The main themes of her concerns are social injustices, love and other issues related to life. She is an active member of Cosmic Crew, a literary group of women poets in Odisha working with the motto “My pen for the world.”