Spring Poem by Susanta Pattnayak

The herons, flamingos, the stocks
Leaving winter behind their shoulders
Shedding memory moisten feathers
Fly my lake in flocks, high over
Into the horizon they disappear.
Following the stars and the sun
Reach your ponds and gardens
Spring has come!

The banyan, with heart big as sky
open her tender embracing arms,
Her nascent leaves of fingers
To hug, Caress and bless the loved pairs.
From the nesting abode in her warm lap
The coos, the chirps, the tweets echo the air
Spring has come!

Spring!
A veiled beauty?
Dancing with the breeze in the ripen field
Blushes intermittently, as her beauty
Unveiled (, and semi-nude) by the naughty wind.

Spring!
A rainbow of flowers?
Tulips, dahlias, roses
Many a wondrous colors and fragrances
Bewitch the bees and the butterflies
To the romantic garden of love.

Spring!
The angel?
The harbinger of prosperity, happiness,
Of creation and a new dawn
Descending on earth,
In the valleys, falls, gardens and homes
With her magic stick changes
My earthly world to a heavenly paradise.