Thursday, March 28, 2013


From My Memory Book

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

The lone landmass is surrounded by water body of great Chilka lake in Odisha along the east coast of India. The barefooted, half-clad boat-man embraces the murmuring breeze and recites the age-old folk song for the Goddess Kalijai.

When we reach the island, he starts narrating the mythological importance of the place. The temple bell rings with the muse of wavy water all around. Our tutorial guide elaborates the geology of the rock exposures. As an amateur earth science student, my mind prompts me quickly to pick up a few pieces of rock, born millions years ago!

In the evening we return back carrying the pleasant memories. In the college reopening day, my professor delivers a lecture on the rise of the Himalaya out of a gigantic ancient ocean, the Tethys Sea. It is an awesome story. I compare and contrast my field trip- the lone landmass encircled by the Chilka lake!

migratory bird
flies in boundless sky
I wake up  
with morning sun sketching
the colorful rainbow wings

Atlas Poetica 13, November, 2012 (Ed.  M Kei)

Wednesday, March 27, 2013


bird’s song--
I wish to translate into
my mother tongue

Mu International, Fifth Issue, 2013 (Eds. Thom Williams, Jon-Michael Franka and  Danielle Buchanan)                                 

Christmas--
one more lamp with
countless stars

A Hundred Gourds, 2:2 March 2013 (Ed. Lorin Ford)

love making--
the moon leaning
over the tides

Asahi Shimbun, 15th  March 2013 (Ed. David McMurray)


deep silence--
planets move around
without noise

Mainichi News, 20th  March 2013 (Ed. Isamu Hashimoto)

Saturday, March 23, 2013


evening moon--
I prefer to walk with my
shadow behind

Four and Twenty, Vol. 6 Issue 3, March 2013 (Eds. Kylie Byrd and Scott Parker)

Monday, March 4, 2013


long fence--
the birds fly on
either side

 Notes from the Gean, No.17: March 2013 (Ed. Colin Stewart Jones)

Sunday, March 3, 2013


Christmas--
one more lamp with
countless stars

A Hundred Gourds, 2:2  March 2013 (Ed. Lorin Ford)