The Squirrel by Bharati Nayak from Children's Literature Education and Literature Magazine

 

The Squirrel

The little squirrel,
Is jumping from,
Branches to branches,
Lifting its furry tail.

It is chasing away its friend,
And playing hide and seek, 
With my little boy Vicky.

For them it is jolly time,
As the ripe mangoes are hanging,
With sweet flavor, 
Wafting in the air.

They hop like hope,
Sometimes near,
And sometimes far,
Wonderful it is to see,
How swift they are,
While climbing the tree.

Sitting pretty on hind legs,
At the top of tree branches,
Eating the nuts,
They make pretty pictures.

A squirrel like this,
Had come to Vicky once,
Ate 'channas' from his hands,
Made friendship,
For a brief period,
And left beautiful memories,
For my little kid.

Biography

Bharati Nayak, born in the year 1962, is a bilingual poet, critic and translator from Odisha, an Indian State lying on its eastern coast. She writes in English and Odia. Her poems have been published in many magazines, journals, anthologies and e-books of national and international repute, Her poems have been published in nearly hundred books such as The Tranquill Muse, Rock Pebbles, Orissa Review, Utkal Prasang, Creation and Criticism, Circular Whispers, Nova Literature-Poesis, PoetryAgainst Terror, 56 Female Voices of Poetry, The Four Seasons Poetry Concerto, Tunes From the Subcontinent, Amaravati Poetic Prism, Glomag ,OPA Anthology ,Different Truth ,,Pangolin Review ,Poets and Poetry, Muse of Now Paradigm, Different Truth ,Cuckoo In Crisis, Mosaic of Poetic Musings Souvenirs of Best Indian Poetryin English of 2021 and the like.

Her published works are

1-Padma Paada (A poetry book in Odia language) 2-Words Are Such Perfect Traitors 3-A Day for Myself. She has co-authored four books namely Radical Rhythm ,vol-1,Vol-2 ,Vol-4 and worked as the Editor for Radical Rhythm Vol-3.

Her book‘In the Realms of Love & Divinity’ jointly written with the German poet Dr.Antony Theodore and book ‘Poetry and Friendship’ co-authored with American poet Daniel Brick.

She is a regular writer on the online poetry Site www.poemhunter.com ,where she has been placed among the top 500 world poets as per their world poetry database and has been offered a Title 'Poetic Basil' for her contribution to poetry.

She has been conferred with Sahitya Lahari award by International Cosmos Society, India in 2018 and Star Ambassador of World Poetry And Art Philosophique Poetica International Award in Literature by the World Poetry Conference in Bhatinda,Punjab .India in 2019.She has been felicitated by Literary Groups ,Asha Srotaswini Magazine ,Ashapradeep Newspaper ,Criticspace Journal,Odia Sahitya Jagata ,Realm of Poems ,Poemarium and Eternal Flames.

She has participated in many well known international poetry festivals like 11th Guntur International Poetry Festival ,Amaravati International Poetry Festival,Rockpebbles National Poetry Festival,Authorspress-GIEWECBhubaneswar Lit.Experia and the like.