BAIT

 

BAIT

Eon hunger of mind insatiable dwells,
Living beings fly, run, swim, and trail,
The pull of life instincts survives.
Food is not only hunger, desire, but truly,
Desire infinite in mind prowls to quench,
Prevention through bait entrapment to fetch,
Plants, animals, and creatures found in a trap,
Birds and aquatic life get caught, bait caps,
Carrion smells a mile away, bait tricks quick,
Mind is alert, rare is inquisitive,
Elephants fall into pits, the tigers in cages roar,
Bird for grain in a net, bait a hook, fish to shore,
Flower, leaf with a sweet smell, liquid bait,
Insects trapped by plants, deception trek,
Life baits and deceiving minds, captures, quick,
In cages or death, living beings end tragically,
Humans do face bait that entices, a trick.
A concession for good hides a risk,
Saving money assets are growing more.
People seek advice to invest bait to allure,
Promises and data are deceptions, bait to loot,
Broken home, life shattered, lust is the root,
Clarion on the job, overseas life, travel in Hoot,
Bait fails alert mind notice cheats lurk,
Overnight, young life loses all its future sunk,
Ruler lays bait, people elect in plain trust,
Commodities free gift bait future is lost,
Promotion in career bait, surrender reason,
Rejection of compromise is tagged as treason,
Spies hunt secrets, bait blackmail, cleavage,
Bait is a female lure that rules the mind,
Wine, riches, assets, bait, compromise,
A corrupt mind breeds bait to uncover ruin,
Anarchy spread the pretension and plenty,
Essence of humanity, the righteous path,
Gait is a quicksand in temptation,
Life is a test for a walk with thorns,
Corrupt escapes with booty taunt a lorn,
Bait is an evil act for the spirit with a goal.
Emancipation, a penance, guides a soul,
Society gets cleansed, progress manifests,
Character ensures peace awareness crest,
Where bait promotes violence and arson,
A corrupt mind willfully ignores reason,
Character-of-evil digs a grave, bait waits,
Credence to culture civilizes life in traits.
The human instrument is intelligent, wisest,
Modern times bait survives nicely infest,
War is neither with people nor with nations,
War is with a mind, clean life, and corruption

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Themes: Ingenuity of mind to trap
Shared: 19 April 2026
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GOLDEN SKY AND GREEN EARTH

 

GOLDEN SKY AND GREEN EARTH

The night was in flames and lighted,
A few digging graves, kids expired,
Fright well imprinted on their faces,
Sunset wrote extinction it disgraces, (1)

Havoc ruled landscapes devastated,
Humans pray, and frights, instigated,
The loud cries, soulful sobbing beg,
A peaceful people love, stolen legs, (2)

Ruins and devastation covered life,
Crumbled houses, roads, and strife,
Hopeless, bitter Ramadan or Easter,
Bomb and missiles, lives lack shelter, (3)

Feel humans fight, forget harmony,
Sadly, humans lose life's symphony,
Animosity accrued, violent actions,
Humans tuned beast lose emotion, (4)

The darkness impermanent sunrise,
Sinners watch a burning hell realize,
Fear of death or beseech to forgive,
Cruel humans pretend well, survive, (5)

Shout for peace, the devil in guises,
Time cleanses timeless; it surprises,
Stolen the evil, mighty, ruthless life,
Earth turns glorious, removes strife, (6)

Peace, happiness, and love, a dream,
Tears of the past and scar, a stream,
Sunrise orange hues or green fields,
The peasant to cultivate, wants, yields, (7)

Endless sad stories, climax changes,
There is a bright future, it messages,
Golden sky and green Earth synergy,
Hope and strength, life toils, energy. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 18 April 2026
Themes: There is a future
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SABOTEUR

 SABOTEUR

Profound peace and happiness stay,
Life found comfort short dismay,
Cyclic human life struggle faced,
Earth seasons change life traced, (1)

Miraculous weather inspires often,
Blistering heat, freezing cold torn,
Blossoms helluva spring ushers,
Conflicts mind rebellious pusher, (2)

Fail to understand the estimate, clue,
Infinite desires chain spirit glue,
Exist dream imaginary illusions,
Hope human effort, due to collisions, (3)

Calm and quiet mind, tranquility,
Experiences life peace, joy, pretty,
No more calm, turbulent state hit,
Disaster loss balance discreet, (4)

This phenomenon sadly presents,
Urban youth are jealous, not decent,
By hook or crook, achieve success,
Saboteur, the mind lives, expresses, (5)

Stay aloof, speak less painful life,
Baseless own creation rest grief,
Nature invites such humans, sadly,
Saboteur's life feels hungry madly, (6)

Blinded conscience decency acts,
Amidst nature, human love reacts,
Forget hunger, thirst, material all,
The beauty of nature silently calls, (7)

Come, humans, forget asset gadgets,
The valley green carpet life target,
Sleep looks up, evening thickens,
Stars moon irk saboteur weakens, (viii)

Realizes rebellious youth retreat,
Discovers peace and joy in the discreet,
Death of saboteur humans learn,
How many lives were lost, nature scorn, (9)

Saboteur intrudes stealthily, is cruel
Captivate mind or heart in dwell,
The fight for human surrender is sad,
The urge is hunger, thirst, defeat, mad (10)

Detection rejection human winner,
The demise of the saboteur survives wear,
Discrimination of physical pleasure,
Saboteur poisons rejections wiser. (11)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Themes: Desire, hunger, and thirst
Written: 17 April 2026
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TEARS

 

TEARS

Lying the departed father in fear,
Missing a word, suffocate to tear,
Mother passed away, and brother,
lonely, silent, she had less to bother,
Her childhood fulfilled, parents' love,
Fun-filled playful with brother solve,
Death has taken away everything,
Past her eyes, a tearful memory recalls,
Added salt to the injury and lost the house,
Left her children distant from her spouse,
Roofless, helpless female, she is crying,
Dried her tears, drank all time-defying,
Consoled, accepted her fate, hot tears,
Incidents shatter lives counter sheer,
Surprised life withstands the calamity,
Tears rolled down, but she smiled, alacrity,
Time is the healer of the heart and mind,
Forgotten the past, look tomorrow tall,
She did exactly change herself stable,
Failed to recount children hubby, able,
Earned her livelihood, passes a modest life,
She talks, her friends cry for strife,
Got strength from a heart yet stubborn,
The Lord her companion is now a solution,
Her prayers, hot tears, emotions healing,
Life is precious, boundless, soul-willing,
Bristling crowd, she is lonely, an attitude,
Pristine nature, melancholy to solitude,
Primal the sight mountain river greens,
Eternal deathless enchanting between,
Merged her soul with the blue sky bird flies,
Pleasure with happy tears, she was wise!

Written By: Bijayananda Mishra
Date of writing: 16 April 2026
Themes: life misses and has a purpose
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A STRING OF DESIRES

 A STRING OF DESIRES

The man and wife a sweet nest,
Tidal waves of dreams, the best,
Annual output of rice, earnings,
He hasn't arrived yet, evenings, (1)

Apparently, the wait for decades,
Failure, troubles, masquerades,
the salt, sweat, hot Sun, cruel,
Merciless the Earth, water boils, (2)

Her worries, impatient, and sad,
The time is running out, life is mad,
She wants to tell her agony, fears,
Her hand on her chick, it wears, (3)

Alert eyes look desperately calm,
Hide her restlessness belief balm,
The pitcher of cold water to quench,
Ajar the door, to rest, the change, (4)

The garland, fragrant, she wears,
Hope her man gets relaxed, tears,
An ocean of marital compulsions,
Sweet words, a river of emotions, (5)

The confluence of happiness, joy,
A confluence of peace and love,
They shall exchange worry, enjoy,
Union after the hard work, solve (6)

They are not kind and queen, seen,
Knew how to live in trouble between,
Like dark clouds passed filter rays,
Their life, not a fiction, yet displays (7)

The sleep, work, friend of nature,
A string of desire wellness allure,
Privileged, desires fulfilled, kids,
Life of a village woman, her deeds. (viii)

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Date: 15 April 2026
Themes: Story of a village woman
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BRIKEN GLASS

 

BROKEN GLASS

The child had mild unruly hair,
Black face diamond she shares,
Ruffle her frock, eyes attractive,
Sharp nose, white teeth, achieve,
Looked once at her, a village girl,
Her childish smile, innocent world,
Etched in my memory long ago,
Felt pity uneducated lacked ego,
Grew up, beautiful, unmatched,
Migrated to urban life attached,
Melodious her song, dance, a tribal
Caught public attention electrically,
Market icon for cosmetics, dress,
Gold ornament bangles impress.
Her property assets, apartment, car,
Tribal, a village girl to a female at par,
Saw her picture, life story disbelief,
The girl I saw once, happy in relief,
She had the mirror in her possession,
Manicured attire adds emotion,
This was her only asset to mint gold,
Mirror oval her face, hooked life bold,
She heard her parents had passed away,
Looked like a ghost longed for a boon,
All her assets, gold money, failed a fact,
Parents departed, with less return in fact,
Shattered her life, she lost her brother,
No more looked a carrier, less bother,
Decided, returned, village firm house,
The broken mirror lacked a spouse,
Cousin sister, a creeper swinging rope,
Her life-broken mirror song is her hope.

Written by: Bijayananda Mishra
Date of writing: 14 April 2026
Themes: Death is cruel (A fiction)
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A FOUNTAIN OF SOLACE

 

A FOUNTAIN OF SOLACE

Realizes self wakes up,
Fragile limbs raise hope,
Mind now aware arrive,
No, wait, world reprieve,
Afloat in the womb a spirit,
Watch faces smile, greet
Solves query meets now,
The realm manifest vow,
Soul exists in a void quest,
Sojourn to know how to invest,
Beyond a birth-death cycle,
The soul feels no pain or trouble,
At least know love and pleasure,
Fountain of solace and fear
Earth being, soul forget,
Enjoy the world,
Love, care, thrill nature,
Animal, plant, bird allure,
Ocean, sky blue, verdure,
Deep green flowers’ color,
River, lake, and Purple Dawn,
Fountain of solace and earn,
Never guess duality a real,
Pain, misery, tears, surreal,
Doubt clouds the mind, blind,
Truth or false, rights ever to find,
Illusions a mirage, curious,
Insatiate senses if delirious,
Darkens life, toes horror test,
Pure soul tense, worry rest,
Sojourn now faces a morass,
Dries up a fountain of solace,
Write my agony, dreamless,
Sick limbs, mind in distress,
River of life floods pain, sadness,
Tearful, don’t realize, get mad,
Rivers that meet the sea exist,
My soul in freedom, Godsend,
Regain eternity, death perish,
Pleasures, pain, and sadness miss,
Illusions fade into a void to float,
Fountain of solace, only boat,
The boat, I hope, will reach shore,
Lord waits for me and enamor,
Ripe age saw a world mystic,
Contemplate time al’ ecstatic,
Time is near, who if whisper,
Birth and demise rotate securely,
Never O’ soul free of bondage,
Realization of a creator craze,
Living here on the planet, moon,
Sun, star, cosmos eager croon,
Seek O spirit His due presence,
Feel in the core of the heart,
Dawn breaks, I pray, and sunrise,
Brilliance, His aura me surmise,
Hope to meet Lord never crash,
Hug him to get a fountain of solace,

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Themes: Realization
Shared: 13 April 2026
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