PRAVAT KUMAR PADHY

REASONING THE REALITY

The curve of backbone
Reflects the bitter identity
Through the thinnest shrunken skin.
The deepened tender eye balls
Roll in hunger
In search of the drops of hope
From the hanging clouds.
Her soft fingers comb over her daughters
Scripting the versification of life.
The scarcity of humanism
Epicenters the tragic social quake.
As undistinguished part of breath,
The death takes birth before the life.

Pravat Kumar Padhy's poems appeared in The Times of India, The Indian Express, Commonwealth Quarterly, Poetcrit, Literary Endeavour, Art and Poetry Today, Poet, The Houston Literary Review, and other publications. His poetry won the Editors' Choice award at Asia American Poetry, Poetbay, USA and Writers Guild of India. His Japanese short form of poetry appeared in many international journals and anthologies. His third collection of verse, Songs of Love: A Celebration was published in 2012 by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. He blogs at Poetic Rsonance.