Space and Earth

Floating in outer space

I see the earth planets moving

In variance beyond imagination

The earth is only a deflated ball

I watch it move elliptically

Feeling earthless for a lifetime.

 

But when I move on the earth

Knowing my routine rounds

I don’t see anything beyond the sky

Sun moon and stars:

Are they not for us

They only taunt our errors

Mock us when we slip on muddy floors

Why do I then waste youthful nights

Waiting for the stars, the lonely star

 to fall on my lap

renew my long-abandoned love

in the silent feelings?

 

The Earth is not space

Life is no grace

I am a mere animal

Walking on two legs

Leaving the hands

to fold in prayer.

Sabita Sahu

What do you know what you are for me! IX

 

What do you know what you are for me! IX

                    

 What do you know what you are for me!

      You live in infinity

      the bejeweled sea

     you are my time’s bride

     my Venus in the sky

     constellations fall apart

     the angels bleed

     but the love in my heart

     will create new breed

     you are my divine womb

     to carry the future seed

     for more than I wait

     you are all I need.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     When vultures fly in circle

     to scoop on my body

     you shoot them down

     and take custody

     waiting for the dew

     to let fall a seed

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You will create a new spring

     a new world of love

     like Adam and Eve we’ll

     make a hum loud cove.

     take our walks along the shore

     on bird wing’s we shall fly

     soaring voidal high

    creating love’s amity.

   We will sing peahens of love

     to make God sleep

     never to rise again

     to create mortals meek

     our story will never end

     no moving finger will write again

     of life’s lost and gain

     we will put the stop

     on anxiety and hope

     man will never be born

     to suffer immortal pain.

 

Now you know what you are for me!

 

What do you know what you are for me! VIII

What do you know what you are for me!  VIII

                  

 What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my pen and pen hold

     you are the poet of my world

     you are my savior sunbright gold.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my morning light

     auspicious smile

     you are my noon bright

     fashion and style

      you are my life maker

     love’s cool balm

     you are my pain healer

     sprightly and calm.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my role model

     ambitious hope

     you are my pole star

     love’s Penelope

     you are my sweet Helen

     Aegean strife

     you are my triple pledge

     flop and hope.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

      You are my crest jewel

      dazzling crown

     you are my divine gift

     luminous fortune

     you are my prayer song

     evening serenade

     you are my Pegasus

      victory’s jade.

Sabita Sahu

What do you know what you are for me! VII

 What do you know what you are for me! VII

                  

 What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my Prince at dawn

     King at noon Emperor at night

     you quench my fire all night.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are the spring of romance

     my summer solace

     my autumnal caress

     my winter’s grace.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You cause me misery

     my poetic fury

     you are my boon to life.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You keep off vamps

     with your impish tramps

     your charms keep me in trance.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are the judge and jury

     but I never plead guilty

     Your judgment is reserved

     and my pleading incomplete.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You guard me from fire and pitfalls

     you save me from the Albatross

     and hanging false.

 

What do you know what you are for me! VI

What do you know what you are for me! VI

                          

 What do you know what you are for me!

     You are the bliss of my past

     the precious gift of god

     the jewel of the holocaust.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my loves virgin land

     I‘ll never walk on the quicksand

     of deceit and pretence

     you are my life’s sense and essence.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my Gita Bible

     you are my moral principle

     the serpent and the apple.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     When you fume in seething anger

     my world burns in flaming roar

     I run to pacify my heart’s core.

 

What do you know what you are for me!

     You are my bow and arrow

     you are my conch and flute

     I learn the difference of wide and narrow

     from your war –peace route.

 

What do you what you are for me!

     When I shall be ready to go

     I want you alone to bid me adieu

     when my breath ceases to flow

     I will enter only you and you.

 

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

 

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