Haldhar Nag

"Everyone is a poet, but only a few have the art of giving them shape."

"Poetry must have real-life connection and a message for the people."

"I cannot read, write or understand English so cannot compare the original and translated work."

"The hemant (dewy season) hosts almost all the plants and species on the earth. 560 million species from ant to elephant take shelter during Hemant. The small millets, the Sunflower and what not, all bloom during the hemant. Out of six seasons we now only have three. In Orissa we had Grishma (summer) Barsha (Rainy), Sarata (Autumn), and Basanta (spring). Now we are only left with summer winter and rainy."

"It sees, it knows, it hears, it finds But it speaks not a word It stands like a mute witness With its strong arms spread outward"

"Let the nectar always flow From the seven seas From the moon in the skies From mother's breast From noble principles And from the poet's scribbles"

"Unheralded unsung she is, In all seven books of Ramayana For the poet in me, Sati she is, Even greater than Sita in purity."

"For my hunger in my belly I beg, But selfish I am not Self-centered you are, better start begging, Like me from house to hut."

"Like in an heirless clan, The lamp is lit by the newborn; Let the wick burn and spread, The language of Odisha-Western."

"On everyone’s lips there was this talk. Triumph is never for the poor folk; Water always downward flows, Fault to the deprived always goes."

"The money I earn now by selling my body, I shall spend To buy heaps of dowry, when I go as a bride newlywed."