ECHOING WIND

Leaves drop here with very  brief breaks

Echoing some old familiar foot steps

On the placid surface of a sullen mind  ;

With ruffled feathers swimming down

On the wings of  memory little behind .

Poised to lighten the pace of breath

After a ramble in the morning woods,

I’m drawn again to ponder over some

Issues over which it always broods .

Leaves of grass smile a different smile

With irony of a shadow on their lips,

Wind sings an elegy on time’s cruel wile

Raising a rumble in heart’s secret deeps .

To this flowers rise up in a quick reply

With dance of heads and twist of hips

They say, “How can you be lonely

When our heart for you silently weeps ?”

Comp. n copy right : saroj k. padhi

08/11/14