Sinking Stars Poem by Saroj Padhi

Brimming with promises in glitter of starry silver
With a translucent heart in sweet quiver
when cloud-tossed moon, to your being sent her cold shiver
you sat beside me peeping into the stream
as if plucking images of immortality, saddled at its sinuous rim,
as the cold wind kept spraying dusts of foamy water over us
like scented bits of blossoms from a priest's holy hand,
twined were we like two twigs in sway under a breeze
in a bush of an enchanted land;

softly the wind caressed the stars in our palms awoken
to catch pearls from rain of faint beams
that glided from our body into the mouth of million streams
stars beamed on your forehead creating a new sky
like a galaxy in your twinkling eyes,
like night jasmines in scented thoughts and dreams
with drops from drizzles drenching all petals in happy gleams
when we caught glimpses of rainbows
in shimmers of shoals in their random swims

when momently there fell the pall from a dark demon
from the web of a dark, thundering prejudiced cloud
in yells terrible and loud
drowning the stars everywhere- on land, hand and air
and in trees' wet, matted, musky hair
into the waters splashing piteously in wails sharp and loud
when we realized with a thud that
we had become two warm evanescent drops
under the fringe of a dark cloud.