CARDINAL CREDENCE

 

CARDINAL CREDENCE

Self-awareness blooms intimately,
Teenage curiosity, pleasant lately,
The day is in automatic progress,
The world awakens life impresses,(1)

Events happen in time, a miracle,
From dawn to dusk, order is visible,
A morning bird's call in freedom,
Blue sky, bird circles, at random, (2)

At dusk, birds search for their nest,
Tired human desperate for rest,
Incredible dreamlands manifest,
Night thickens, darkness attests, (3)

In a noisy world, arguments conflict,
Anxiety and aspersions inflict scorn,
A hurt heart, an acid tongue inflict,
Lies disguise pretentious lives resist, (4)

Anger hurts, the mind acts abnormally,
Conscience tells a soul decently,
A bright sunny day entices the mind,
Conspiring to revolt, rebels unkind, (5)

Influence corrupts the teenage mind,
Evening prayer abruptly silences,
Peace, calmness, the divine assures,
Reason focuses, warns of the error (6)

Unknown, unseen, the Lord speaks,
Mind reads a holy book, feels weak,
The book says, He exists clearly,
A seed in a fruit dreams of a future (7)

Pray to the Lord to grant patience,
Reject all vows of cardinal credence.
Enemy, a spirit of doubt intense,
Betrayal birth ends in confluence. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Themes: Betrays a mind, God helps
Date: 13 July 2026
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THE GIFT OF LIFE

 

THE GIFT OF LIFE

Writing the poem with tears, realized,
Writing the letters in blood, surprised,
Life and blood are interrelated, essential,
Malnourished, less blood consequential, (1)

Tears and sweat are linked to blood, well,
The heart pumps, circulates in veins, tells,
Symptom of life breathing blood fuel,
Energy of the human replenishes dwell, (2)

Soldier shed blood at a frontier, brave,
Protects the countrymen, boldly saves,
Donate blood, a divine duty to the sick, dying,
Lives up, recover the life, time-defying (3)

A family for generations, inherits blood,
The same feature natures duly accord,
Grandfather, father, and children discover,
The human departs, but blood forever, (4)

Keep the race, culture, and perfect lifestyle,
Descendants carry in vein, not fragile,
Siblings of the same blood fight bitterly,
Property matters harm life critically, (5)

Skin is black, brown, yellow, and white,
Eyes green or black, the same eyesight,
Casts, creeds, and religion divide hell,
Color of blood red, discrimination yell, (6)

Animal slaughter blood is red, amazing.
Non-violence breeding cattle, all images,
Blood causes brightness to shine a life,
Depleted bloodlessness presents strife (7)

Life is precious, and blood donations exist.
Gift of life links a love, refuses to resist,
Who saves the human life, God knows.
Gracefully, life is indebted to a dying show. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 12 July 2026
Themes: Donate blood, the gift of life
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STRAW

 

STRAW

Life sinks into the whirlpool quickly,
Save life soon, spontaneously, well,
Humans, a precious life, dare dwell.
Capture a floating straw and intuit (1)

Imaginary hallucination activates,
Life struggles, troubled intentions,
Impending danger, deadly caution,
Invisible helping hand saves graces, (2)

Lesson for life: who helps get help
Drowning in swirling water shapes,
An unknown hand pulls up and saves a life,
Countless examples of escapes, a strife (3)

Condemned to the street gets sympathy,
Unknown yet kind-hearted empathy,
Straw in the flooding water capture,
Life sinking stays afloat yet enamored, (4)

Straw repudiates debt, the darkness,
Reality exists in the world and impresses.
Solve all problems, debt-ridden heal,
Lessons to humans, happiness seal, (5)

Humans discover the straw miracle,
Failed mission gets success at an angle,
A few are fortunate to get timely support,
A straw in the swirling water does escort. (6)

Stood in the park, twilight approached,
Octogenarian, a sick person search,
Desperate to return home, I want help,
Hold his hand, guide a friendly shape, (7)

Leading a lonely life with no one to care,
Visiting him quite often owes a share,
Watch his sickness necessity in love,
Human-to-human heart helps solve (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Themes: A help to survive
Date: 11 July 2026
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GOLDEN EARTH

 

GOLDEN EARTH

Watch helplessly as the sweltering heat,
Blunders humans commit and repeat,
Bald Mountain peak slope stays fearsome,
Verdant valley, meadow less welcome, (1)

Wild flowers, lavender, invisible sadly,
Wildfire in the grassland forest, badly,
Summer time dry bed of the river, see,
Rain plays havoc with a flurry of floods, fiery (2)

A winter smog-filled city is polluted.
Arrival spring, blossoms pale sighted,
A parched cornfield peasant looks up,
Contemplates this year's drought crop, (3)

Black smoke concrete world displays,
The name of modernity nature sadly plays,
Melting ice cloudburst destroys lives,
Roofless roadside life doom believes (4)

All these pictures are manmade stare.
Golden cornfields in waves, play air,
Nightingales and cuckoo in the night,
Signal springtime wildflowers delight, (5)

Snow peaks radiant at sunrise prevail,
Verdure luxurious growth green well,
Serenely flows the river, blue stream,
Heat wave disappeared, feel a dream, (6)

Green revolution soil is precious, hint
Greenhouse, pollution-free, lives meant,
The flock of birds merrily flying indicates,
Lotus blooms in the pond lake dictate, (7)

Animal world rising species and the forest,
Mistakes humans realize and slowly correct,
Golden Earth is rare in the universe, felt.
Preserve or face oblivion naturally melt. (viii)

Date: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 10 July 2026
Themes: Protect the Earth & soil
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CHANGING LIFE

 

CHANGING LIFE

Memories hunt the past linger,
Overflowing emotion, silent singers,
An amazing transformation happens,
Surprise instantly, a heart is shaken, (1)

Vanished numerous dreams trail,
Attempt, effort, consequence, fail,
Her budding youth adolescence,
First sensations of intimacy and intense (2)

A mere touch, thrill, throbbing heart,
Wakeful night seeks a presence in fact,
The union separation adds sorrow,
Tearfully accept her love, borrow, (3)

Grew tall, flew higher in the sky, yet,
Conjugal love opening petal duet,
Ocean of devotion, the mind seeks,
Search over the cliff and a creek, (4)

The fragrance of flowers, rosy lures,
Fledgling chicks make alluring sure,
So was her life, a beautiful, shy heart.
Become a housewife, a time impact (5)

Flower to fruit seed sprouted a lot,
Tomorrow is different, time to escort,
Innocence insecurity no more, stay.
Tension worries accumulate play (6)

She is a colorful butterfly pattern,
Attractive beauty figures she learns,
Magnetic eyes, electric her charm,
Soothing voice, her response warm, (7)

Why steal time? birds not visible,
Petals of dried flowers fell terribly,
A queer feeling, her soul in a void,
Changing life, she probes and avoids (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 6 July 2026
Themes: Life progresses soon

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MIRAGE OF THE MIND

 Mirage of the Mind

Searches the human heart for water,
Parched lips, thirsty dreams shatter,
Quicksand, an elusive mind waylaid sadly,
Endless sand dunes trap life easily,

No escape from an expanse till horizons,
Paranoid thoughts provoke reasons,
Lifeless under the blistering, heated sun,
A line of camel travelers was defeated,

Resembling hope against hope stays,
Continue amid distrust, satirical plays,
Golden sands make life lose its track,
Aspiration and failure symbolize a mark,

Merciless wind lacks lush green valleys,
Baseless dreams sweep remorse’s tally,
Not a bush or wildflower, present, says,
Unspoken agonies and miseries in many ways,

Wavy patterns of sand, edges of dunes,
Restless, humans run after fortune,
A drop of moisture denied at the deathbed,
Losing consciousness, conscience threads,

Fewer realize the human heart disobeys,
At the last minute, know the Lord, praise,
Collect the remaining strength on no basis.
Mirage of the mind, discover an oasis!

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 5 July 2026
Themes: Thoughts act as quicksand
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DESPERATE

 

DESPERATE

Quagmire, surreptitious feeling,
Unpleasant situations, sinking,
Lost hope failed to utterly shatter,
Human life progress encounters
Feelings of sinking, miss bottom,
Miracles possess life, trick some,
Discovers a root branch to hold,
Saves precious life lessons gold,
Attempt innumerable survive fit,
Human emotions, cries discreetly,
Beg mercy, plead for help, tearful,
Circumstances, events of life, fearful,
Coming out of hunger, poverty,
Experience lessons find security,
Miniscule or inkling conscience,
Wisdom fights circumvent mince,
Analyzes hazards, invisible, guess,
Desperate life prepared to impress,
Observe love, disrupted, disliked,
Magnetic love attracts life, licked,
Education career possession list,
Asset wealth land influence mist,
Desperate life to grab steals, unfair,
Not virtue but vice crumbled hire,
Equally, the human spirit is desperate,
Success, sacrifices, virtuous traits,
Human life is short, attempt quickly,
A desperate attitude gains timely,
Silver lining human excels in quality,
Desperate attempt to gain purity,
Practice shedding prejudice price,
Discipline hire inclination justice,
Amazes life, mysterious world,
Feed desperation capitulate mold,
Path two ways impulsive attempt,
Other name desperation contempt,
Revive, survive, or quagmire waits,
Watch dreadful pictures or baits,
Trick saves life from the teeth of death
Desperate attempt roots wealth,
Clasp tightly, come out, in vision,
Now or never act, clue desperation,
Risqué from the quagmire wisely,
A desperate attempt is saved promptly.

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Themes: Act honestly
Date: 4 July 2026
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