Two New Poems on Summer and Photographs by Ranjit K. Sahu
Two New Poems on Summer and Photographs by Ranjit K. Sahu
- SUMMER OF THIRST
Sweltering heat and the air blows heat too.
Under the summer sun when no clouds form
Mountains to beaches: as far goes one’s view
Mourn the absence of rain; willing a storm,
Ever has the earth felt so dry and dead
Returning the embrace of parched summer
Often filled with thirst, that remains unsaid,
Freaking with just gestures of a mummer
The odds of revival always seem low.
Heat building thirst in every form of life
In their quest souls seek solace in shadows
Reconciling with existence and strife
Scorching the body and scorching the soul
Thirsty summer spreads its fangs wide and whole.
- THIRST OF SUMMER
There’s a heat in the heart as in the air
Heavy the breath turns warm with heated mood
In the words of the world, love is called despair
Rising temperature when creates feud
Scorched by sunshine and burnt by emotion
The heart looks for some solace from above
Often all love has thirst as definition
Failed lovers when have to acquire their love
So hard is the hurt from Cupid’s arrow
Ultimately making his victim bleed.
Many succumb to the thirst like sparrow
Many may sweat though love’s showers they need.
Each life and each love has a thirst to quench
Rain falls or not, lovers in sorrow drench.
© Ranjit K. Sahu, USA
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