Durga Prasad Panda
Fear and Other Poems
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Woman
A woman
Is
A tightly
Shut
Door
Talking forever
Through
The cracked walls
Of
Her wounded
Silences
***
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.
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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
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.
Small but powerful poems.
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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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