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From this Book: Shattered to Sing Shattered by the ceaseless showers From an insistent cloudy sky, Battered by a rough wind, Bitten by bees and beetles And by each passing butterfly; I bleed, I fall as thousand shreds of petals On leaves and grass beneath my feet Soaked in by the Sun all dry And know nothow to hold on In the face of revages Wrought by my own cunning loves Who called me softly by my million names Before kissing me away to their formal 'bye' As I shrank like a bride new and shy. About the Author: Dr. Saroj K. Padhi is an Associate Professor of English in the Govt. of Odisha and he is at present working at Sailabala Women?s College, Cuttack. Born in 1962, he has been writing poems in English and Odia since his school days. Till date he has published innumerable poems in most of the leading magazines of the country. He has published two books of criticism: Relationship : A Critical Study and English Essayists : A Critical Study and about 12 research articles in different national journals and one anthology of poems in English namely Pearls of Dew. He has done his Doctorate on Indian English Poetry from Berhampur University under the guidance of eminent poet and Late Prof. Dr. Niranjan Mohanty. He is also an active member of various poetry communities on the website and regularly posting his poems there. He is co-editing Replica, a tri-monthly poetry magazine being edited and published by poet and writer Shri Premananda Panda, stationed at Cuttack. He also has his poetry blog www.sarojpadhi.blogspot.in where he regularly posts his poems.