Chittaranjan Dash, Delhi, 19 January 2025
Pariah poet walks
His eyes glistening like
A child’s marbles
Pariah poet writes
His mind wandering like
Wayward clouds
Pariah poet sleeps
Dreaming about a bird
Cooing in willows
Pariah poet wonders
Thinking about universe
Thrown into swirls
Pariah poet trespasses
into the bastion
Fearful of the glitters
Pariah poet runs
Into arms of a nocturne
nun as a child of dawn
Pariah poet festers
Like a wound of love
Licking a heart that flows
Pariah poet stutters
Like poverty’s tongue
Laced with litters
Pariah poet gloats
Like a sad philosopher
Covered in coals
Pariah poet rests
Like a bird of horizon
Trailing its own shadows.