Wednesday, January 1, 2025

ANIL KUMAR PANDA

 




The Evening Star


In a cool evening

I watch the little star

Atop the horizon

Marking its august presence

With its bright shine


The soft wind rising from

The meadow caresses it 

With its silky touch and guide

It to the middle of the sky


It is midnight

And I feel dazed as it spills

Streaks of light upon me

As the soft wind caresses 

My face I fall asleep and 

My thoughts

Towards the sky fly away free


The Wind Takes Me


I whisper to the cool wind

And it to me whispers back

With a smooth flow it drifts

Me towards the beautiful lake


I lie and dream at the edge 

Of the lake for the whole day

As the evening falls the wind

Comes swiftly and takes me away


We fly over empty barns

Silent meadows, fields and bay

The wind drops me at the place

Where in loneliness I like to stay


I wait for the wind in the 

Next morning to give me rides

To seas and oceans where in the

Blue waters I play with the tides


Deprivation


As the day comes to a close

I hang up my soul inside the

Wardrobe; I inhale the musty

Smells of sweat and feel dizzy;


I forget the day’s labour; the

Humiliations of being poor;

The taunts and curses of kings;

I live in death since my birth.


As the night descends, I ask

Myself for lending me a dream;

That would let me fly away to

A realm beyond consciousness

Where peace takes care of my soul.


ANIL KUMAR PANDA


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