THE DAWN

 

KUMAR SRIKANTA

 

The sky is pitch black

The tiresome earth

In deep slumber

Still in rotation

With burdens of

Anguish and dreams

Pleading for clemency

Reminiscences are in the dust

Nostalgia attacks her!

 

I contemplate

At the eastern horizon

Stars bury their dead

Glimpses of a fluorescent glow

With contrast not to sharp

Usher into this

Care-ridden earth

The stubborn resistance

Of the unscrupulous darkness.

 

The intensity amplifies

The winsome earth is

At her first blush

The breath-taking silhouette

Of the tranquil hills

Renaissance of light!

A large applause

From the chirping birds

Exhilarating!

 

The anxiety’s all over

A revolutionary change

in the eastern sky

A scarlet disc

Of pre-historic origin

Assends

From among the horizon

Under His surveilance

And sky’s mediation

An immortal embellishment

For the living beings

The joys of rebirth are over.

 

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