The
            Poetry of Abhay Kumar


            

              

                

                  
Occasional
                  Outbursts
              
              

                

                  
I
                  saw leaves dancing...
              
            


            


            Occasional
            Outbursts

            
Her occasional outbursts

            From a distant land

            That I left far behind

            Still reaches me

            While I am lost strolling

            With my young love

            
Her loneliness and

            Failure to fall in love

            Perturbs me

            Once in a distant land

            I wished I could fall in love

            But I was let down

            By treacherous ambition

            
Since then I have traveled far

            But her occasional outbursts

            Still reaches me

            From a distant land

            While I am busy walking

            With my young love

            
She writes

            She misses me so much

            That she would cry

            And in the hindsight

            She realizes in remorse

            I was her only love

            
Her cries so painful

            Still reaches me

            From a distant land

            While life has moved on

            And I am lost strolling

            With my young love

            
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I
            saw leaves dancing...

            
I looked out of the window

            Taking a break from the cyber world

            And my eyes fell on the dancing leaves

            Under the blue sky

            Dancing with abandon

            With the music of the wind

            And I thought of freedom

            And what it meant to be free!

            Locked in the cubes

            Surrounded by the uninspiring and arcane

            Burdened with files

            I had stopped living

            And then I could bear no more

            I put aside all

            And looked out of the window

            And I saw leaves dancing with joy

            And I thought of freedom

            And what it meant to be free!

            
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            Abhay Kumar was born in Nalanda district in Eastern
            India in 1980. He was educated at Delhi University(DU) and Jawaharlal
            Nehru University(JNU)in New Delhi.He joined the Indian Foreign
            Service(IFS) in 2003 and was posted to Moscow in 2005.



            He is a writer-poet-diplomat and is currently serving India as
            Consul of India in St. Petersburg, Russia.

            
He is the author of "
            Enlightenment- Poems for heart,mind and soul"- a collection
            of more than a hundred poems that have been read and appreciated
            the world over. His poems "Smitten by Green" &
            "I Believe" have been published by the Forward Press,
            UK in two separate anthologies titled" Natural Spirit"
            edited by Michelle Afford(2006) and" A Moment of Déjà
            vu " edited by Annabel Cook(2007). His poems "Hero",
            "Child within me" & "It's never too late to
            try again" have been published by Bolokids.com, a poetry
            website for the children.

            
His latest book "River
            Valley to Silicon Valley"-Story of three generations of
            an Indian family; has been published by Bookwell India in May
            2007.Since then it has been translated in Russian and Hindi.
            It is also being translated in Korean language.