Arun Kumar Sahu

As I gazed at your light green eyes, You smiled and said, “They could be misleading.” Tumultuous has been your past. At teens, You had a romance and a boy; As you…

Things are clear yet hazy. The marks of dry pimples on your face, The zebra glass frames under your trimmed eyebrows, The lines of the smile on your moped lips. All that was in…

A year! From last new year to this Christmas, Five encounters and a few messages, Some cryptic, taciturn and some effervescent. It was our first When we met once…

Plopped out of your pocket Steely and shiny, a solitary key. With a chuckle and a sigh, Through the corner of your eye You murmured, “Ah! My key.” In our last…

Wild was the night Intermittent lightning and sporadic thunder Inconsolable rain and devastating wind Hunt was for a refuge, safe and assured. You were right there In the corner, in…

The hill never thought  It will happen. On a knoll, deserted and desolate,  There will ever be mist and fog. All along The hill was called horrid, muddled and…

Resting on your skin, Mellowed, burnished and glossy Crafted in fainted blue,  A tattoo in Spanish Mariana Mario. Weary eyes and doleful gaze,  A trace of a smile on…

The conversation between the head and the heart, To note, Is a thrill. It’s flesh, heat and touch; It’s a hunger, periodic yet erratic; It’s spasmodic, Says the head. It’s not the…

The magic of numbers, the abstractions Lowest Common Multiples, the Greatest Common Factors and reasoning You say, “I will ask a question before you kick the ball up; Answer me as it…

Amid sweat and pant Under blinding lights, and blazing dissonance Hip swung, chest twisted Feet tapped, hands twirled Our last dance. As it began Love charred, lust baked Bones…