Rainbow In Fallow Land Poem by Saroj Padhi

She smiled from the corner of her cloud kohled eyes
Like a moist pink lotus parting soft lips
Under a a tender Sun emerging from blue deeps
Her half smile lurked like a rainbow-tinted dream
Bracing a wet sky
When birds with sunlit wings heavenward did fly
And drops from heaven drizzled like nectar
Quenching thirst of the fields lying dull and dry;

Rain has been sparse this year
Limiting the showers from your heart
As I lie like the fallow lands of my land
And bewildered farmers don't know
How planting to start
I'm a sheer dreamer now
In the harsh desert of hot sands
Forgetful of my ploughs and oxen
And art of cultivating the barren lands.