One Day Poem by Kanishka SricharanPratap

One day
You painted
Flowers in muruja
Crops in muruja
The sky in love,
And moon of the distant horizon,

Promised to draw
The picture of honeymoon night,
Night passed
You forgot!

One day
You drew
The foot print of Laxmi,
Stars bloomed
Like flowers!
Jhoti flashed
On your body!

When flashed in your mind
You could not stay,
Looted...
Full vase of honey!


Translated from Odia by
Subash Chandra Mohapatra