Debajani Pattanayak Poems

When Love Turned to Shadows

Once, they breathed each other's name,
Two hearts dancing within the same flame.
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Upon a wooden bench the lovers stayed,
While restless winds around their silence played;
Before them waved a crimson flag so bright,
Not sign of fear—but love's eternal light.
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Edward, I see you
crown slipping from your
brow like a fallen star,
palaces shrinking into
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He sought her once beneath the mourning moon,
And called her soul his rarest, fairest boon.
Her eyes, to him, were candles in the night,
Her name, a prayer whispered before the light.
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