A LITTLE WHITE LIE

 

A LITTLE WHITE LIE

 

A tender bud touched and broke,

The soft heart bruised fears, sock,

Glistening eyes, teeth, and smile,

A mere harsh word turns a senile, (1)

 

The colorful flower is pale, fallen,

Life views bitter truths or hidden,

Under the amber ash, fumes top,

Come out of the secrecy, elope, (2)

 

Leaves the trace of fire, burning,

The motto firmly stands warning,

Fails the human to digest news,

Repentant of mistakes, or refuse (3)

 

A willful lie breeds faster, grows,

Revealed the deceptions, show,

Pickpocket shakes hand, talking,

Play innocent sings well walking, (4)

 

Death strikes suddenly, thwarts,

Happiness, love quickly departs,

Weak heart, a news suppressed,

Know kith and kin or depressed, (5)

 

Much later, it is informed softly,

Sank disbelief, a fact gradually,

Happened in the married life test,

Separation of loving heart rest, (6)

 

Fear to express openly, a fight,

Disclosing the truth and fright,

Kid commits a blunder, destroyed,

Parents hope for recovery, avoid (7)

 

The make-or-break world lies,

A white light polite decent sigh,

A ray fails to remove harsh facts,

Truth prevails; tolerate the heart. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 31 January 2026

Themes: Open the event politely

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LOST AND FOUND

 

LOST AND FOUND

Mysterious life, the path is lost,

Search desperately at any cost,

Crossroads, horns of a dilemma

Illusive, golden dear or dogma, (1)

 

Yesteryear's youth faded views,

The strength of mind, not grown,

Romantic nights sensation tell,

Like morning mist disappeared, (2)

 

Yet, butterflies wrought dreams,

Tidal wave of thought or stream,

Soaked with emotion or passion,

Cruel time has stolen fascination, (3)

 

Upheaval and upliftment in sight,

Momentary delusion, glory flight,

Men came, greeted quickly, forgot,

The world is a stage drama escort, (4)

 

Painfully shares, happiness, a past,

Distant dream melted, fewer last,

Fame and fortune, opportune time,

Explicit history, life survives, prime, (5)

 

Sunrise footprint waves soon erase,

Lingers shadow behind life, gloom,

Brilliant sunrays yet float in memory,

Age is only a number, pleasure ivory, (6)

 

Life is a tiny grass leaf, dries brown,

Life resurrects the same way yearn,

Renews challenges, victory nearer,

Experience peace and bliss, enamor, (7)

 

Lifetime effort, results, fewer lost,

Rejuvenate satisfaction reminds,

Lost and found, a saga of life stays.

Forget and time remind, displays. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 30 January 2026

Themes: Life discovers

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THE NADIR OF LIFE

 

THE NADIR OF LIFE

The gorge, water flows like a rapid,

The perpetual darkness, an insipid,

Silence rules, inescapable dungeon,

Absent the azure sky, miss pigeons, (1)

 

The greenery, mountains, and valleys,

Beyond the horizon, search, lovely,

Thrills of rain-soaked, dance, song,

The place surrounds a misery throng, (2)

 

Sunshine dazzle, dew-laden grass,

Gems, apparent, cast allure, a class,

White clouds sail, lazily, bird songs,

Flows the dark water sight wrong, (3)

 

Human life at the gorge looks up,

A yacht afloat with courage to hope.

Escape out of the tunnel, whisper,

Rays of challenge, fight, endeavor, (4)

 

Comparable to the downfall, a nadir,

Vaporize fame and fortune terrify,

Melts resounding applause, tense,

Surrounds loneliness, a soul sense, (5)

 

Trepidation uncertainty suppress,

Humiliation, rebuttal, or oppression,

No sympathy, consolation, a hand,

Rock bottom, fate, life understand, (6)

 

It is the beginning point to march,

Human touches the zenith, watch,

The deep gorge and peak of a hill,

Life path of human vertical reveal, (7)

 

A step to rise and rise to the top,

Glorious story of passage or hope,

The nadir of life fuels a dream, well,

Achieves the mission victory dwell. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 29 January 2026

Themes: Life rises from the bottom

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SANCTIMONIOUS SPIRIT

 

SANCTIMONIOUS SPIRIT

 

The soul cries for the human suffering,

Consoled the painful heart and sings,

Conveys a million examples, survivals,

Advice to fight challenges and revival, (1)

 

To build an affordable shelter counter,

Provide food, clothes, and live better.

Pummels life surrenders to the Lord,

Exposes invalid facts, attractive gold, (2)

 

Preach for prayer to be honest, well,

Peace and love experience, life hail,

Elaborate story of disaster, life face,

Examples of humiliation, hurt trace, (3)

 

Attend the calamity or catastrophe,

Risqué sinking lives counter, trough,

Distribute the holy book and teach,

Such men passing their lives reach, (4)

 

It is a beautiful screen, guise swell,

Harbor cruelty unsympathetic fail,

Far from the Lord, tongue is sweet,

Amassing wealth snatch power fit, (5)

 

They drink, dine, wine is company,

Deceive innocent heart symphony,

Dance till the last comfort luxuries,

Never seen sorrow, trouble, misery, (6)

 

The white dove in marble signifies,

Propagate false love repute dignify,

The curtain will be down or drama,

Vanish the pseudo-life melodrama, (7)

 

Alas, the human realizes the fallacy,

Sanctimonious spirit rejects ecstasy,

Descends purity benevolent heart,

A healing touch effectively impacts. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 28 January 2026

Themes: In the guise of a pious life

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VOICE OF THE BONSAI

 

VOICE OF THE BONSAI

Unknown village rustic life shows,
Humans live in peace, happy woe,
Mud walls and floor, dung-pasted,
Straws full of rice in the backyard, (1)

Pigmy before wealth and power,
The limbs, heart, and mind shower,
The living style varies, rhythm wear,
Festival custom practices appear (2)

The cartwheel and bullock-driven,
Carry bag of paddy, cities smitten,
Dwarfs the high-rise towers think,
Surprised it differs, Earth links, (3)

Polished dress, dining or working,
And carry, tension, worry, sockingly,
The mind creates thought, fearful,
The heart shows frustrated lustful (4)

And achieve, skill, various promote
A myriad of dream steal peace note,
Thunderstorm disaster uproots life,
Ensure untimely death born strife, (5)

Compare big tree fruit and flowers,
Touch far and wide praise shower,
Illusive, dissipate quickly, the wave,
The bonsai proud less, a life paves, (6)

Decoration piece, dwarfs, the mirror,
Carries roots, trunk, branches here,
Leaves and flowers, different colors,
Message of the Lord be small allure, (7)

Voice of bonsai whispers the secret,
Discard rosy life, invite nature directly,
Escape from summer rain or winter,
The drawing room adorns the decor. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 27 January 2026
Themes: Small is beautiful
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INTARSIA

 

INTARSIA

An ancient land millennia old,
Culture, customs, civilization, gold,
Innumerable people's languages,
Lifestyle, food, dress, faith, crazes,
Time-tested survivors grew to linger,
Hues festivity lunar solar longer,
Across the country, names differ,
Happiness melting fogs disappear,
Warmth will be visible in winter, frigid,
The arrival of summer farmingis rigid,
Farmer dreams of annual output,
The spine of the country grain sprout,
Emotional today, Bihu Pongal,
Makar links to the time eons,
Who looted the country's poor,
Dying without food, a cry sufferer,
Killed natives, burned houses,
Looted gold, silver anger rouses,
Still, the land displays miracles,
Flood the milk-river, gold carnival,
The bountiful earth, fertile riversides,
Feed a billion lives, feed sufferers,
The harmony, amity, and fraternity,
Intarsia in exhibitions links serenity,
Unite, you survive; divided perish,
Intarsia cultural hues life cherish,
The prosperity education skill,
Stronger in history, invincible drill,
The highways, railways, and flights
Hubs of transport intarsia right,
Enormous effort culmination,
Dreams billion front, realization,
painful hunger and poverty read history,
A thousand-year country in slavery,
No more, I cried, hues inviting,
How beautiful India, women singing,
Electric their smile, inviting lips,
Intarsia-strewn colored dresses,
Rhythmic, their dance song is ecstatic,
Enigmatic intarsia, republic, romantic.

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Title of Poem: Intarsia
Themes: The Republic Day
Written: 26 January 2026
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THE RUDDERLESS BOAT

 

THE RUDDERLESS BOAT

 

Unfulfilled desires and dreams hurt,

The direction or purpose of life, lost,

Humans search, destiny, and puzzle,

Fame and fortune, pseudo, dazzle, (1)

 

 

Fate, the synonym of fallacy, changes,

From the rag to riches, time amazes,

Humans build mansions, sell quickly,

Gold and diamond lose hand unluckily (2)

 

 

Name and fame, applause resounds,

Aloof, lonely, repentance surrounds,

Misses consolation guidance moves,

The mind thoughtless sails removes, (3)

 

 

Why should humans feel gloomy, say?

Opportunity lies ahead, hopes display,

The silhouette of a boatman, sunrise,

Netting solutions, clues, find precise, (4)

 

 

Life is not an ocean of sorrow, aspire,

The seed sprouts in the heart. desires,

Implement fruitful actions to guide life,

From the turbulent water, rock, strife, (5)

 

 

Salvage ruined life, misfortune events,

Consolidate strength, build no lament,

Defy the obstacles, proceed or defiant,

Success is written on foreheads, instant, (6)

Bright sunlight, glorious future invites,

Victory, not fantasy, the reality excites,

By the dusk sun sinks, western sky tells,

A day belongs to humans, hopes dwell, (7)

 

 

Many a dream, frustration, crumbles,

The rudderless boat stabilized rumble,

Achieves the purpose of life, a mission,

Contemplate the phase boat in motion. (viii)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 25 January 2026

Themes: Lost the purpose and direction

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