Pulkita Anand, from India, is an avid reader of poetry. Author of two children’s e-books, her recent eco-poetry collections are 'we were not born to be erased' and 'What's left Icarus?'. Various publications include: short stories kids, New Verse News, Green Verse: An anthology of poems for our planet (Saraband Publication), Comparative Women, Origami Press, Asiatic, Inanna Publication, Bronze Bird Books, SAGE Magazine and elsewhere.
Oftentimes…
Spreading the stars bedsheet, with the pillow of the moon
Oftentimes I throw the ball of the sun and it comes again.
Oftentimes I get drenched without the rain.
Oftentimes, a sparrow eats the sun and pigeons peck at my heart.
Oftentimes a frog jumps onto another planet, and a dragonfly nimble a mountain.
Oftentimes loneliness comes and gives me company.
Oftentimes a river comes to fill me and hope flutters as a butterfly.
Oftentimes people change and seasons wonder.
Oftentimes a swan eats the world in a grain.
Oftentimes a moth burns in a desire for embrace.
Oftentimes fireflies shine in the soul.
Oftentimes waves wash the memories and leave salted water.
Oftentimes jasmines bloom in my heart and no one notices.
Oftentimes time flows and a heron catch it.
Oftentimes trees live where no one lives.
Rain
The sky’s grey attire is changing the embroidery of the land
The herons, the geese, the egrets, and the storks are drawing a patch
The hiding stars and moon wink in a slant shimmer
The wet morning is shaking the dew from her skin
The drops from the sky and the drops from her skin
The flakes of sun freckle on the pattering pond
Are doubly beautiful and good
Stitching rainbow, flowers, buds in a new hue
Seasons are wearing sheen and shine
Smearing the scent and scene of refreshment
Oozing from every pore and every part
Filling and fulfilling waltzing with Zephyr
Chirping orchards with nuptial songs
Spreading the ancient scholarship of mutual growth
Life is dripping from the drops
the sun peeking and weaving gold in the reeds
Folding its hems for the other seasons
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