ANIL KUMAR PANDA

 

ANIL KUMAR PANDA

 

Hide And Seek

 

You come and go away

Like the essence of a flower

When the wind blows soft and hard

 

You fill my heart with love

You make it empty like the sky

Surprising me often times

 

You are the evening star

Shining both at day and night

Giving me reason to survive

 

I feel your presence

Sometimes in dreams

As if you are sleeping by me

 

You are both winter and summer

And hide the spring inside your heart

 

I wait for your heart to break

And spill fragrance of new flower of love

 

A Summer Afternoon

 

in the surreal silence of a

summer filled afternoon

 

the cuckoo feels the dryness

in its throat and sings a

song of death of gossamer dew

upon nodding blades of grasses

 

the silence turns dreamy

when sleepy sparrows wake up

to the sharp creaking of the windows

and flap its wings over the sills

 

dry leaves hang like

fallen faces of lovers seeking

a shed to spill the song in their hearts

 

the sun goes on burning its path

turning the clouds into ashes

 

and the stream feels choked as it

struggles to move through sharp edges

of stones and cries in a muffled tone

 

Remembering My Forefathers

 

outside the house

the wind was playing a music

a music that my forefathers had played

when time was going good

 

the wind passes through

the grove of mango trees where

they had spent the playing hours in their

childhood days- amidst swinging fronds

 

sometimes the wind

calls their names, one by one,

as if they are hiding somewhere behind

thick bushes of wild flowers around the fields

where they used to work hard raising crops

 

outside the cluster of houses

their footsteps are heard

in the silence of the afternoon

when they come to ask about us

to the hollow temple standing godless

at the end of the path to the cremation ground

 

ANIL KUMAR PANDA

 

ANIL KUMAR PANDA was born in a small town, Brajrajnagar, in Odisha, India. At present he is working in coal mine sector and writes poems when he gets time from his work. He has already published two books of poems, Fragrance of Love and Melody of Love. He is working on his third book now. His poems have been published in many national and International Anthologies. He loves to write poems on nature and love. He loves travelling and meeting people of different nationalities and cultures.