Sunday 26 February 2023

What Do You Know Are For Me! - V

What do you know what you are for me!

                                 V

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my long nights enemy

      thief of bonhomie

      moony night’s dream.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     your smile awakens my soul

     your words make me roll

     towards my goal.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my garden path

     soul’s benign worth

     and my divine wrath.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

      You are my victory garland

     you are my honour highland

     and my river bend.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

      You are my rosy love

      you are my cooing dove

      you are my deep life’s treasure trove.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my life’s stone wall

     my nightmares stall

     my beings end all.


Sabita Sahu

 

Sunday 19 February 2023

What Do You Know What You Are For Me! IV


What Do You Know What You Are For Me! IV


All rivers seas and streams

dew drops on the dry grass

your shadows and images 

are all real to my senses

true and trustworthy always.


What do you know what you are for me!

Your worries and hurries

laughs and mood swings

provoke me to love you more

I fly on your wings.


What do you know what you are for me!

 I envy the road dust

on your feet

I rise to wipe your sweat

from your lovely feet.


What do you know what you are for me!

You are the last horizon

on the edges of ocean

you are the surge of passion

in my dry bones.


What do you know what you are for me!

I love the sheen in your eyes

the rose in your lips

when you stand apart as nature

my heart mirthfully leaps.


What do you know what you are for me!

Sabita Sahu

Sunday 12 February 2023

What Do You Know What You Are For Me! III

 What Do You Know What You Are For Me

                                 III              

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my church you are my temple

     you are my prayer my bell and bugle

     you are my palace serene humble.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     you are my verdant alley

     wide open lawn

     you are my honey moon

     crimson dawn.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my wine jar

     strong heady wine

     you are my deadly knife

     rude sunshine.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my love lyric

      lone mute call

     you are my demoness

     fangs of gall.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my bridal bed

      love’s holy fire

     you are my crematory

     flaming pyre.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my friend sweet hot ripe

     you are my salvation

     you are my life.


Sabita Sahu

 

Sunday 5 February 2023

What Do You Know What You Are For Me! II

What do you know what you are for me!

                         II

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my cosmic hunger

     my Manna dew

     you are my dream maker

     and dream breaker.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     you are my fire cauldron

     the fire lit there eternally burns

     life after life for my last sleep.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     A lily half seen in  night’s haze

     a moon half eaten by fate’s rage

     a night sweet and full of revenge.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are the goal road and speed

     you are the chariot and the steed

     you are the surplus you are my need.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my joy my toy

     you are my highness you are my guide

     you are my downfall and

     you are my rise.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my anger you are my hate

      you are my luck you are my fate

     you are my poison for heaven’s gate.


Sabita Sahu.

 

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