Sasanka Sekhar Panda
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While wandering through the
mangroves in the lagoon
I stretched out my hands
in the open air
...
I have forgotten how to hate
I have forgotten bitterness
in distant days.
...
i don't want to live in mansions
built by my ancestors no more alive.
I don't want to wear this so called freedom
like handcuff
...
The hearth of love
and compassion
is kindled in my heart
to ignite the hearts of
...
The goddess of love
came in the bridal attire
bringing peace of heaven
to my dry life,
...
I want to be a butterfly
ever on wings
flying from flower to flower
flapping and swaying
...
My little cute daughter
had a colorful balloon
in her tiny tender hands,
when punctured and
...
Empty words can't console
timid mind can't protest
weak hands can't fight,
sycophancy is treachery,
...
Her heron's gaze
brought my inward happiness
soothing my heart.
I felt the trances
...
Day by day time covered your frail body
with dark sketches
and your eyes went almost blind
and day by day
...
Before all shuts down for darkness
you promised to come to me.
I thought it a green signal
beckoning from the
...
You could not bear the love I gave you
and committed suicide in the remotest corner
of your own heart
and I suddenly felt
...
In the wakefulness
and the height of awareness
I listened to the sorrows
and pleasures of your heart.
...
Why do you hate him?
that young urchin aged sixteen
selling evening edition of the
daily newspaper in the streets.
...
Yes! I sing this song of adoration
for you O Maa!
You brought me up
to this human existence
...
Should I go deeper to the roots
which have made me
a great Banyan tree.
...
I have crossed the
tropical rain-forest
in the wilderness
of the primitive darkness,
...
Man is sucked up by
every drop of blood
in the arena of
his own follies,
...
Sasanka Sekhar Panda Biography
Sasanka Sekhar Panda graduated from Sambalpur University with a First Class Honors Degree in History in the year 1974. Thereafter he received M.A. Degree in History and M.Phil. Degree in Buddhist Studies in 1977 and 1982 respectively from the University of Delhi. For higher studies then he went to the United States of America and did research for two years commencing from January 1996 in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA. He has the experience of teaching Ancient Indian Temple Art and Architecture to the American students in the university as a teaching assistant.Being adjudged as the best scholar for the year 1997-98 he was awarded with the most prestigious Du Pont Fellowship. He has contributed substantially to the field of Temple Art of Odisha and has published sixty-two research articles in various national and international journals. He has also authored three Poetry Collections, one Short-stories Collection and also edited eight volumes on art, culture, literature, history and traditions in his native Odia language. He was successful in the Odisha Administrative Service Examination for the 1978 Batch. He entered government service as a district-level officer in the Information and Public Relations Department and after serving the government very devotedly as a Communication Administrator he retired from service in May,2014 as the Director (Technical) and Additional Secretary to the Government of Odisha.)
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Flicker Of Hope
While wandering through the
mangroves in the lagoon
I stretched out my hands
in the open air
when the torrential rain
beat the high heads of
those proud oppressors low.
I felt at that very moment
as if I descended
to the nether depth
the deep ocean-floor
where colors of spectrum
change every moment,
ultimately I reached
the valley of hope.
I have seen war-ravaged lands
where even the sunrise birds
keep quiet
forgotten to sing the sweet note
where the brooks, mountain streams,
rivulets and rivers
dried up in their
sandy and rocky beds,
and everywhere only
the cruel silence pervades.
Still there is a flicker of hope
for the dawn of a New World.
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