Pravat Kumar Padhy

Pitto

The seven-pointed star, each a day leading toward creation. The Saptarishi and the Pleiades, the seven-branched lamps and Jesus’ seven sayings. The seven colours of the rainbow, different but one, while our seven look-alikes roam the world, the one turned into many. The wonder in one number.

stone
flat
last
the
stacking
evening
cloudy

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Note: Pitto is a popular outdoor game in India. Two teams take turns throwing a ball at a pile of stones; when one team succeeds in knocking down the pile, its members must try to restore the stones while the other team tries to hit each of them before the pile is successfully reconstructed.

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About the Author

Pravat Kumar Padhy holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, ISM Dhanbad. He is a 2022 panel judge for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards and is on the editorial board of Under the Basho. Besides poetry, he devotes time to writing scientific papers on planetary geology and listening to classical songs.