Forest Song 2, by Pitambar Naik

Forest Song, by Afresh Frankincense (India) 2020

Forest Song 2
 
We had decided prehistorically  
to shake hands heartily    
a kohl landscape under thick moist   
that has a portrait liquid sentiment  
a glass mirror of antique rhythm 
that smelled of cumin seed
biosphere, that has a feeling.  
 
Truly, eyes are full of blessings  
with an art of deeper sense     
love breastfeeds with milk and honey 
green olive dreams foster a world, 
rivers, rains and renaissance.
 
It has logos: words to speak
hymns to sing, deity to bless the soil
razor-sharp and bohemian
buoyant and brimming dopamine 
to heal the schizophrenia of the dead.  
 
Sunrise or sunset: goodwill  
feeds the time, people and context 
we witness nature’s nudity
cunt: beauty, sperm: life 
with innuendo of science   
a canvas of reconciliation grips    
there’s no fear of death—no fear. 
 
An intense geography runs our blood
the longitudinal heartbeats kiss  
a vintage life-size efficacy    
unbelievably pretty prior and after   
what goes down the arteries?
 
The waves of history scents
the breezes of heliotrope tickles       
life music, live dance, life pigments 
the forest songs of soil and salt
the forest songs of hope 
the forest songs of hemoglobin  
hint a gesture of life to the fullest. 
 
Pitambar Naik    
 
Pitambar Naik grew up in Odisha in India. He’s an award-winning poet and the author of The Anatomy of Solitude (Hawakal) and a poetry/fiction reader for Remington Review. He’s work forthcoming or published in The Indian Quarterly, New Contrast, Brushfire Literature, Liquid Imagination, Ghost City Review, Eunoia Review, Glass Poetry, Cha, Vayavya, Occulum, Formercactus, Literary Orphan, The Punch Magazine, The World Belongs To Us (Anthology) HarperCollins India among others.

Afresh Frankincense is 12-year-old and in Class 7th. He is a child art-prodigy from Odisha and lives in Hyderabad in South India.  Though he loves math and science so much, art has a special place in his heart. His work has appeared in Moonchild Magazine, Hindustan Times, Kids 4G and elsewhere.