Dancing Damsel - A Calligraphy Of Love Poem by Susanta Pattnayak

slender stroke of chisel,   
        a breath on stone,   
          the dawn remembers  
             the hand of the sculptor.  
          curve of silence,   
        arched brow,   
      her eyes are sunlit questions,   
    her lips—unanswered prayers.  
        arms unfold like hymn and hymn,   
     hips sway with eternity's weight,   
  ankles whisper jingles of wind,   
each rib is a verse of light.  
       she stands yet dances,   
      she is still yet flowing,   
     she is stone yet alive,   
    she is body yet cosmos.  
        to touch her is to touch time,   
         to see her is to unsee oneself,   
           to walk past her  
             is to carry her forever.  
                creator is gone,   
                  creation breathes,   
                    calligraphy of love,   
                      etched in my mind.




©️Susanta Pattnayak