Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 6 – Pandu’s curse ☆ Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra

Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra

 

(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is Executive Director (Systems) Mahametro, Pune. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Pandu’s curse”. This poem is from her book “Tales of Eon)

 

☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 6 ☆

 

☆ Pandu’s curse☆

 

King Pandu, out to hunt

Unable to bear child frustrated

Heard some din in the surrounding

An arrow in his bow mounted

 

Rishi Kindama and his charming wife

Transformed into an antelope and a doe

Invoking magical powers

Were in the open, making love

 

Pandu’s arrow, struck the antelope

Upon the antelope, death hovered

Pandu watched helplessly the repercussions

While the afflicted Rishi cursed

 

Pandu was banned from touching a woman

Having hindered brutally a couple in mating

He was to die then and there

If he ever engaged in love-making

 

A man who cannot father a child

To be a king is deemed unfit

Left Hastinapur for good and forever

To lead the life of a hermit!

 

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