Poem - To Live In Peace, Poet - Dr Prafulla Kr. Panda

To Live In Peace

In twilight's glow, when day and night meet
In a calm mind men can consciously sit
And upon tea cups better can peace sip

And keep aside their ego and hatred
And talk of mutual growth instead
To bury their hatchet and never grow wicked

With a decision fair, they can step up reciprocity
When hearts align, they can promote generosity
And can work for a world bereft of animosity

On the roof where darkness dwells
And stars whisper and moonlit spells
Men in peace can find their better sails

And can shake hands for mutual understanding
To live in peace with their voices respecting.

©Prafulla Kr. Panda, India.
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Bio-note

Dr Prafulla Kr. Panda, MA, M.Phil., Ph.D is a lecturer by profession and a poet by passion, Dr Panda's poetic trajectory traverses across human life, society and beyond. His wide range of verses delve into intricacies of human relationship diving in its myriad shades of love, passion, emotion, mortality and death.  Like a mystic he never fails to surprise by blending the concrete with the abstract, the near with the far and the material with the spiritual.  His poetry celebrates both free and rhymed verse though the latter often dominates the poetic structure.
Dr. Panda is a widely published poet of international repute. He has published three collections of poetry- “Bounty of Silence: Verses Unveiling the Songs of Soul”, "Beacon of Hope: A Symphony of Verses" & Wilting Love: Songs of the Soul", and edited an inter-continental anthology “Beyond the Horizon”. He is the recipient of more than 1500 National & International Awards & Appreciations for his poetry. He hails from Tilda, Balasore, Odisha, India