Maya:Lac-House Of Youth Poem by Kanishka SricharanPratap

One day
Lac-house of youth
Shall catch fire,

Transcending the circle of fire
A bud
Shall bloom into a flower!
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Who is that lotus-smelling
Bathing her golden body
On which river?

Who is he
Collecting impatiently
Lotus-pollen
From which core?
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You are 'Arundhati'
You are my 'Swati'
I am a piece of sky,

A piece of clay
Under your feet
I am,
You are my jasmine flower.
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I draw the picture
Of millions of years
Daily in sleep,

In which space
Who are you picture-lover
Have spread your body?
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Who is that golden 'Ilishi'
In my blood-river!
You swim
Like a lightning!

The fishing rod
Has dropped from my hand!
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On the edge of this paddy field
Who walks slowly?
Like the flower
Sachharum spontaneum
Keeping afloat her veil!

The feet slow down
She turns back to look
Someone pines somewhere!
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Who appears as shadow
In the moon-blanched grove?
And disappears
Immediately!

I try to unite
Beyond the window
Severed wire of my heart
All through the night!
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River shall dry
Youth shall vanish
We will perish one day!

Blossomed flower of the land
Does not come back
To the stem
When it withers!
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Lamp goes out
I get extinguished
You burn too!

In this world
Burning is the essence
Who has fathomed it!
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Give me black stain
I will take
Give me defamation
I will take,

Give me poison
In love
I will quench my thirst!
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I have kept in tears
Kept in blood
Kept in mind
You must blossom!

Beyond old age and disease
Beyond birth and death
You shall emit fragrance
In my bone-flower.
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Everyone knows
When the forest burns
You alone know
When I burn!

When you burn
I burn too
We turn into
A pile of ashes!
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You are not
An object of pity
You are my
Object of affection,

You are not
An object of forgiveness
You are my object of love.
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"I am emotional
Dipped in emotion"
You speak again and again!

Sinking into the water
Of this sea of emotion
You steal all the pearls!
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I hadn't touched
The lotus-feet
Touched today,

I hadn't risen
Towards Mokshya
I rose today!
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Amrapali is dear to me
You are dearer,

She had read the life
You have not!
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Once you came
In my sleep
Getting drenched in rain,

"Come and see Dimiri flower"
You told me laughing!
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At night you lament
Beyond the groves and groves
At the bank of which river!

The flower full of thrill
Bloomed and dropped...
Dropped...
In the body of yours!
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You sent a letter
Written in tears,
"In the storm of separation
I die and die...
For you
Why?
You say? "

"The song of cuckoo
How much shall I bear?
Take away fire from my body."
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You'll sleep... you'll sleep
You helpless
I shall close your eye-lids,

On the bank of distant islet
Near the tamarisk jungle
I'll take you
To the world of dreams
With sixteen love arts.
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Let the thin veil
Drop from the chest
In wet wind,

Let the thin bra
Drenched in rain
Embrace the breasts.
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You untied with shyness
Your bra
Made of flowers,

In twinkling of an eye
You dispelled darkness
From the eye
With beauty of art!
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Nageswari is played
Tonight...
Whom does it excite?

Who bites me
Whom do I bite
Where dies who?
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After you left
Love
Is like falling mango-flower,

Not the 'Taj' of love
But a broken temple.
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If I go
To be embraced
By the gold-adorned hands,

I shall mingle
Within no time
By kissing red coral lips.
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Come buxom lady
In honey-pitcher
Treading like 'Lakhmi',

Let not this hot summer
Come to my life
Quench my thirst!
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Once
We were
Away from others
I gave shadow kisses,

On your lips
On your large breasts
On your thighs
Again and again.
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All on a sudden
In lightning and thunder
Someone shot
The arrow of flower!

Getting drenched in rain
In tight embrace
You stringed a garland!
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Gave on lips
Gave on cheek
Gave on your breast,

While giving on the navel
I vanished!
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Neither elephant
Nor deer
Today I know
A she-horse you are!

I am a man-bull
For me in the night
You become
A passionate lover!
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I gave everything
To a pair of bangles
Keep wherever you like,

I became whole and complete
In place of emptiness
Look, how I spill over!
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We will go to Vatsyayana
Will go to Kanishka,

Will move
Through the pages
Of Kama Sutra
And Kamashastra.
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Slowly I shall
Draw the line of nail
On your feet,

By kissing
I shall draw moon and star
On your breasts!
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Shall move the waist
Move in
Mild and gentle gesture,

In love's nectar
In shining stream
We shall sink
Sink togather!
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Opening the red lotus
Spreading the net of petals,

I shall scatter pollen
You will receive
Not today but tomorrow!
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You shall know shortly
The secret mystery of love,

You shall string in garland
The world of mortals
And the world of immortals.
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Come,
I shall string
Garland of kisses
On your half-opened thighs,

I shall slowly paint
The injury of nail and teeth
Sex-stream shall flow and flow.
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Into which Yoga
Shall you go, Yogini?

Shall you create
Which postures
On the bank of youth?
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When I stole
Your undergarments
Holding your girdle
Passionately,

You got drenched
In moonlight
Entering through the window
With tune of love!
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In Nimittaka kiss
You said, 'no...no',
And bent down in shame
Closing the eye
In Ghatitaka,

You broke my nap
Give me Chalitaka,
And opened up hastily
In Pritibodhaka!
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You will come in 'Samapada'
You will come in 'Byomapada'

In these love postures
You will spread and spread
From earth to heaven!


Translated from Odia by
Tarun Kumar Sahu