THE MAGIC WHITE CARPET

 

THE MAGIC WHITE CARPET

Stupefied the human heart's desire,
To escape from the boundary pair,
Burning issues and scars of the past,
Bitter fights, wrangles, spats, anger, (1)

Encountered a beast, ferocious eyes,
Fangs, cruel smiles follow fearfully,
A human runs at breakneck speed,
Climbs to the mountain cliff, finds (2)

No quarrels, animosity, and hatred,
Peaceful place, the wind blows, a relief,
Found the safest place, look below,
Disappeared a bad dream sunrises, (3)

Bright blue sky instilling hope, a lot,
Miraculously sensed nature appeal,
The flying carpet, noticed, amazed,
Contemplate a far-off place, travel, (4)

Believing that paradise exists, invite,
Peace and harmony, love captivate,
Polite, gentle humans, helpful, roam,
Beautiful orchard and sweet home, (5)

Pervading fragrance hazy and petal,
Reverberate songs, music, melodies,
Stolen the identity or mortal feeling,
Forgotten gold and silver, symphony, (6)

Where death fails to touch astonish,
The mirror carries no image puzzles,
Absent thunderstorm flood draught,
No sunset or night, light translucent, (7)

A person got tired, sat mesmerized,
The magic white carpet, the dream,
Jump from the cliff, and death waits,
He returned to the world reluctantly. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 7 March 2026
Themes: Bewitched the Paradise
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AN UNKNOWN TERRITORY

 

AN UNKNOWN TERRITORY

The labyrinth of thoughts formative,

Spiraling emotions, desires, relatives,

A list is long, for benefits and losses,

Possessed valuable collected tosses (1)

 

Love is immortal, a mortal evaluates,

Cruelty live, sympathy considerate,

Humans choose to lose and rejoice,

Life wins or vanquishes link choice, (2)

 

How much to gain or forfeit stand,

Dreams and delusions understand,

Now the spirit quarrels and fights,

Forgotten rivalry, both are laughing, (3)

 

A lost character, pervert, careless,

Repent, correct mistakes, impress,

Life passed, amassed gold or silver,

Silence and solitude, serenity cure, (4)

 

Aversion, arrogance, and ego rule,

Transformation of a saintly life mule,

Permanent glory, fame, or fortune,

Culprit mind trap fate misfortune, (5)

 

Dedicate the heart to kith and kin,

Their betrayal realizes human wins,

Crowds, applause, and claps, noisy,

Fade quickly, a mirage, a life busy, (6)

 

Float a thousand thoughts opposite,

The human misses the path light,

Tall trees, dense forest, dark road,

The periphery the Sun rises, trod, (7)

 

An unknown territory, bold name,

An address and identity, the same,

Escape out of the forest, it erased,

Know freedom, light hands raised. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 6 February 2026

Themes: The world is elusive

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SAGA OF THE LAST MAN

 SAGA OF THE LAST MAN

 

The end of the world, and so quickly,

Destruction, self-chosen, pathetic,

Fireworks of human limbs scatter,

Sweet home turned to dust horror, (1)

 

Silence rules, eerie, piercingly visible,

Diminished greenery and the rivers,

The fertile land, granaries, the past,

Cities and villages ruined or ghostly, (2)

 

Inaudible music songs symphonies,

Sky without birds or forest animals,

Busy highway sky scraper crumbles,

Hope and desires, eliminated sadly, (3)

 

Earth is a dead planet and lonely,

The desert dune wind blows slowly,

Waterless land borderless surprise,

Subsided war clouds receded lives, (4)

 

An unknown world, meaning void,

No happiness, pleasure, and love,

No cruelty, bloodshed, savagery,

A romantic night throb imaginary, (5)

 

The only survivor of a holocaust, run,

Tired on the sand, stumbling often,

Parched lips and dry throat gasp,

Burning eyes, the last energy hope, (6)

 

The human race went to oblivion,

He escaped from death, walks on,

No one admits he still lives, pity.

His shadow assured his life a belief, (7)

 

Hallucinate, a mirage and an oasis,

Palm groves, dry fruit, and water,

Saga of the last man shade allure,

It was a bad dream result, laughed. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 5 March 2026

Themes: Fear of the destroyed world

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A BOWL OF RICE

 

A BOWL OF RICE

Remember specters of draughts,

Parched land, dry grass thoughts,

Merciless, the Sun, blistering heat,

Hot winds, jobless life, find sweat, (1)

 

It was not the death knell, scare,

Cloudless blue sky human share,

Limited food life is tense, worry,

The landscape projects life, sorry, (2)

 

Hunger, the curse, steals life soon,

The fallacy, gold, silver, the boon,

Insatiable appetite wealth alludes,

A bag of paddy corn seed collude, (3)

 

Precious thing to live sweet plate,

Precious life survives, foods relate,

Rarely found fertile soil or water,

Surround coconut trees and cover (4)

 

Water streams and paddy straws,

Arranged and planted green rows,

Cranes, plenty of birds, life smiles,

Rainy season it pours scene defile, (5)

 

In contrast to summer and moist air,

Dispels the heat cultivation, inspires,

Successful harvest or bumper crop,

Granaries are full of human hope (6)

 

The guarantee to live and assures,

Rice water and vegetable capture,

Not the sweet home and property,

The food for a year and necessity, (7)

 

Critical factor for growth survival,

A bowl of rice shows phenomenal,

A pinch of salt, oil, a private field,

The only means of living is grain yield. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 4 March 2026

Themes: Critical for life food

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SEVEN LIVES AND A TIE

 

SEVEN LIVES AND A TIE

Solitude kills peace, joy disappears,
Search for love, bemused discover,
Solace to the thirsty heart persist,
Surround pleasant happiness tryst, (1)

Source of colorful dream, chance,
Stream of imagination romance,
Strong the urge and bonds favor,
Subtle feeling expressions allure, (2)

Sweet conjugal lives, fight better,
Sour to appealing life encounter,
The service a hubby provides shows
Self-help, man and wife to know, (3)

Serenity wedlock round the fire,
Surreal cords unbreakable share,
Show glistening love life coexist,
Surrender, purpose of life, a list, (4)

Somehow, couples thrive, survive,
Surmount difficulty souls revive,
Sentinel abiding trust the belief,
Substantial reformation is a relief, (5)

Sensational thrills, hearts throb,
Surreptitious the emotions rob,
Security for love umbrella open,
Standing firm, to protect and listen, (6)

Stunning experience, marriages,
Stories of inspiration or courage,
Sequence of events, the aspect,
Solve troubles, heart introspect, (7)

Sound as whispers the touches,
Seven lives and a tie, preaches,
Survive to realize a beautiful life,
Sustain the belief in conjugal lives. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 3 March 2026
Themes: Love is deathless
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A CANOPY OF COTTON CLOUDS

 

A CANOPY OF COTTON CLOUDS

A thousand feet high, a mountain,

Edge of the cliff, the human looks,

Blue sky extends to the horizon,

Sunrise, the eastern sky is orange, (1)

 

The bush whispers secretly, swing,

Dense fog covered the Earth totally,

Invisible landscape houses trees,

Nature wears a veil of white cover, (2)

 

Opaque, a scenic sight, the river,

A white curtain blocks activities,

Humans, ferocious animals prowl,

Hideous green eyes, nails sharp, (3)

 

Dies the heart passionate loves,

Physical pleasures, the objective,

A glass of wine dances a motive,

Insatiable thirst to drink blindly, (4)

 

Unmindful or lost responsibility,

Unaware, life is short, capability,

Cacti bloom in the desert show,

Murky waters lotus bloom glow, (5)

 

A heart is stolen, trust betrayed,

Build a bridge of faith, love stayed,

Plenty of happiness or sympathy,

Such benevolence exists and helps. (6)

 

Raised war cloud, death stealing,

Savagery and ravaged life crying,

Peace and harmony exist, silent,

The world, a melodrama shocking, (7)

 

A person on the cliff perturbed,

A canopy of cotton clouds white,

The quietude, the bare elusive world,

Astonished, the place is different. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 2 March 2026

Themes: Clouds blanket blocks

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LIFE IN THE FOREST

 LIFE IN THE FOREST

Bewitched the soul name or fame,

Bestowed prosperity, life is the same,

Benign heart wears love and a smile,

Beautiful, the heart and mind drive, (1)

 

Bottom of the heart desires thrive,

Beacon of knowledge, life survives,

Begin the life path, serpentine way,

Bend quite often confusion, display, (2)

 

Below the mind, a myriad of thoughts,

Birth and death, mysterious, caught.

Bed of roses, path of thorns coexist,

Belief of humans walk worry resist, (3)

 

Bitter past the jungle life lost path,

Better days, sunrises, hopes worth,

Believe firmly to escape and settle,

Beseech the stability, a fate sparkle, (4)

 

Blind eye to honesty, truthfulness,

Bolt from the blue strikes distress,

Blood and salt, food and deed stay,

Batter mistake, repentance display, (5)

 

Blunders, commits human, in forests,

Besides perceptions rectify, corrects,

Bonhomie, a distant dream, solitary,

Branch out the treks or involuntary (6)

 

Begs for the mercy of the Lord to save,

Blissful feeling, a path, trees waving,

Bewilderment vanished, a mission,

Befriend challenges, determination, (7)

 

Beware of dark pit ferocious prowl,

Belittle fear precedes life, fox howls,

Between the horns of a dilemma run,

Bereft, life in the forest, victory won. (viii)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Date: 1 March 2026

Themes: Lost the path, life rediscovers

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