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Fear and Other Poems: Durga Prasad Panda

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  • bilingual poet, translator, & critic

    Durga Prasad Panda is a bilingual poet, translator, and critic. His works have appeared in several prestigious journals, magazines, and anthologies. Most recently, he has edited a Reader on Jayanta Mahapatra's life and works for Sahitya Akademi.

Woman

A woman
Is

A tightly
Shut

Door

Talking forever
Through

The cracked walls
Of

Her wounded
Silences

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Deadlock

Her eye,
A frozen lake.

My gaze,
A stuck boat.

***

 

Fear

Like a foetus
Inside the dark womb

Fear curls up,
Waiting to burst open

Like an overripe fruit.

***

 

Untitled

Beaten to pulp,
Gulping my own spit

Broken in my soul, I enter
Into my own shadow

As a woman
Slips into her petticoat.

***

Image Credit:Birender Yadav

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8 Comments

  • Debendra lal
    Posted 19 नोव्हेंबर , 2021 at 6:35 pm

    Small but powerful poems.

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    • Durga Prasad Panda
      Posted 22 नोव्हेंबर , 2021 at 7:56 pm

      Thanks so much for your sweet words appreciating my poems..

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  • Durga Prasad Panda
    Posted 22 नोव्हेंबर , 2021 at 7:12 pm

    I am so happy to have your views on my poems. Thanks so much

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  • Prahallad kumar Satapathy
    Posted 29 मार्च , 2022 at 4:00 pm

    Brevity is the soul of wit.Durga’s poems are sharp and penetrating.I love his poetry.

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    • Durga Prasad Panda
      Posted 13 एप्रिल , 2022 at 2:08 pm

      Thanks so much dear Prallahad Da for your such a sweet appreciation of my poems..

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  • Vandana Bhagwat
    Posted 13 एप्रिल , 2022 at 11:27 am

    Very powerful images lurking on the brink of fantasy of a demon lover- Somewhat frustrating- for letting such powerful invocation lapse into it.

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    • Durga Prasad Panda
      Posted 2 ऑक्टोबर , 2022 at 2:26 pm

      Your valuable feedback on my poems has filled me with happiness..insightful views

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  • Durga Prasad Panda
    Posted 13 एप्रिल , 2022 at 2:09 pm

    Thanks so much dear Prallahad Da for your such a sweet appreciation of my poems..

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