2 Poems by O.P. Jha

A Pregnant Silence

larks are flying
against the velvet of haze
tearing the chest of mess
for getting a glimpse of glaze

it hesitates to compose
the elegy of the Earth
on the tearful wings
of wet clouds

it finds ferns mocking at flowers
and grass-blades cutting the petals

people see the things in close-up
and turn back in a pregnant silence
they’re waiting outside the labor-room
for a baby-cry.


for a moment

imagine there’s no sound
of weapons
for a moment
on the Earth,
everyone is silent
everyone is beholding a rainbow – a stage
for the play of light and vapor
nature is composing a poem
truly a world-poem

a humming-bird is compiling
a script for tomorrow.


Bionote

O.P. Jha’s works appeared in more than one hundred journals including Rigorous, Mantis, You Might Need To Hear This, Punt Volat, Discretionary Love, In Parentheses, Shot Glass, Lothlorien Poetry, Kelp, The Cry Lounge, The Odessa Collective Magazine, Backchannels, Homer’s Odyssey, The Indian Literature, The Broken Teacup, Five Fleas-Itchy Poetry, By the Beach, miniMag, Iceblink Literary Magazine, Infinite Scroll, The Rome Review, The Tiger Leaping Review, The Accendo, Aloka, Ghudsavar, Panorama, Gabby and Min’s Review, Hoot, Vocivia, The Marbled Sigh, Balestra, Forevermore, and others. His poems appeared in anthologies "We were Seeds" and "We are Resilient". He holds Ph.D. in “Translation Studies”. X: @OPJha17