Wings Of Fire Poem by Prayag Saikia

(for scientist Abdul Kalam)
Immersed in the sky-ward dreams
A visionary of incantation

Who owns the eyes for dreaming
Who knows the art of weaving dreams
He, after all, knows how to paint
The wings of the resplendent fire

This Sage is a living legend
Till this day an oarsman's son
Setting sail in the ocean
Gauges the ungarnished truth
Sketched on the heart of the blue

The notes of the veena come drifting
Raise ripples in the mind's cistern
The waves surge up

Come, let's ink our whereabouts in the sky

Life shall one day swell out
With the firm revolution of wisdom


(Translated from Original Assamese by Krishna Dulal Barua)