ANIL KUMAR PANDA

ANIL KUMAR PANDA

O Bird!!

O bird!!

Keep a watch on me

I may go somewhere wrong

For the love I have cherished

To me it does no more belong

O bird!!

Don’t take your eyes off me

For my heart is heavy with pain

Her memory is fresh in my mind

And I feel it may drive me insane

O bird!!

Don’t chirp today please

I can hear her voice in you

Let me forget her to live long

And let a seed of love sprout anew

It Is Spring Time

It is spring time and tender leaves

Sprout in fronds to flutter in wind

Earth gets draped in a new green

Leaving memory of winter behind

It is spring time and fragrance from

Tender leaves flits across the land

A cool wind blows towards the river

And at noon gets settle on the sand

It is spring time and a pleasant dawn

Breaks early upon peaks of high hill

Crystal water catches the clear sky

A lone star at its shore stands still

It is spring time and new buds with

New colours hold the earth in a trance

An elusive light graze past treetops

Making the bees and birds to dance

Its spring time and a soft song of the

Cuckoo comes floating from woods

Feeling the air heavy with romance

It longs to meet its mate and broods

It is spring time and essence of your

Youth hovers around minds of young

The white flower tucked in your hair

Signals that the love is pure and strong

Sift

They say your eyes are beautiful

Like the bubbles on a glass of wine

Intoxicating and lilting as a song

Tears fill around their rims

Swollen with dreams of sleepless

Nights they look tired as petals wooed

By perpetual nagging of surly butterflies

They say your eyes hide mystery

Like that lives in a hollow cave since

Centuries to be unravelled by a brave

Soul who gives a sojourn without a notice

They say your eyes are beautiful

Like the sparkling foams in the sea

Appearing and disappearing as wind

Of love makes the tear to well up and spill

ANIL KUMAR PANDA