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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