With Love, a Poem by Bharati Nayak

Distance is never a distance
As of me 
On every nucleus of each cell
Scripted your name
The beats of my heart
Stop to listen to your steps
The soft sun light and the sweet breeze
Murmur the eternal music
My heart is filled with love 
Like the sky has no limit
Unfathomable as an ocean
Like a nectar dropped to eternity.
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- Bharati Nayak
Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Bharati Nayak, born in the year 1962, is a bilingual poet, critic and translator from Odisha,Her poems have been published in nearly two hundred books such as The Tranquill Muse, Rock Pebbles, Orissa Review, Utkal Prasang, Creation and Criticism, Circular Whispers, Nova Literature-Poesis, PoetryAgainst Terror, 56 Female Voices of Poetry, The Four Seasons Poetry Concerto, Tunes From the Subcontinent, Amaravati Poetic Prism, Glomag ,OPA Anthology ,Different Truth ,,Pangolin Review ,Poets and Poetry,Muse of Now Paradigm, Different Truth and the like.
Her published works are-
1-Padma Paada (A poetry book in Odia language) 2-Words Are Such Perfect Traitors 3-A Day for Myself. She has co-authored four books namely Radical Rhythm ,vol-1,Vol-2 ,Vol-4 and worked as the Editor for Radical Rhythm Vol-3.She has co-authored a poetry collection ‘In the Realms of Love & Divinity’ with the German poet Dr.Antony Theodore and a poetry collection 'Poetry and Friendship' with an American poet Daniel Brick.

She has been conferred with Sahitya Lahari award by International Cosmos Society,India in 2018 and Star Ambassador of World Poetry And Art Philosophique Poetica International Award in Literature by the World Poetry Conference in Bhatinda,Punjab .India in 2019.She has been felicitated by Literary Groups ,Asha Srotaswini Magazine ,Ashapradeep Newspaper ,Criticspace Journal,Odia Sahitya Jagata ,Realm of Poems ,Poemarium and Eternal Flames.