SEPARATION

 

KAMALA KANT LENKA

 

On all sides

flowers bent down blooming

and in those branches

the moaning of the air is heard.

 

I thought during the sun

Someone’s daughter has left

from the boque, as if

the fresh flowers had separated.

 

Loneliness I felt

got a lot of pain

during the lone sun

with the lament of air

merged my voice of pain.

 

 

THE RELATION

 

O the suffering butterflies of my whim,

my praise to you. Out from the prison of noon

and of the anxiety I am free

(and) my ideas of bloodshed are in motion

now the pain of being lost and

the sacredness of weeping bloods of

face to face discourse and some

false prayers’ trick.

 

O the suffering whims and known voices

my praise to you, my tumbler

and the preserved wealth of pittiness

transferred. Now why

I am plucking the flowers of the known moments?

 

Translated from Oriya by GYANINDRA K. PRADHAN

 

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