Arun Kumar Sahu

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 firstWhen we met once…

Plopped out of your pocketSteely and shiny, a solitary key.With a chuckle and a sigh,Through the corner of your eyeYou 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 alongThe hill was called horrid, muddled and…

Resting on your skin,Mellowed, burnished and glossyCrafted 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…

Drink, my friend, drink. A sip, after a sip, after a sip Whiff the aroma, savour the sting.Drink to the swing of the seas To the calypso of the hills To the flurries of scarlet ibis…