EXPANSIVE

 

EXPANSIVE

 

 

Sings country leader hilarious,

Amazes landscape panoramic,

Stupendous success, hard labor,

Laborers Indians bewilder, bemused,

Metropolises outlandish sprouting,

Boasting development elaborates,

Highways, airports, skyscrapers,

Glassy towers dazzle in sunlight,

Evening advances cities glowing,

Life in hues neon coloring skyline,

Works people day and night long,

Run the mills round the clock,

The traffic, smog, frothing rivers,

Symbolizes development prosperity,

Dense forests, green cover is vanishing,

Dredgers in coastal sea digging ports,

The land is flourishing with export-import,

Skies are crowded with air traffic,

Million hopes aspiration taking shape,

The laborer in the field looks up,

Elite flourished are traveling,

Made their life minted gold plenty,

The shining glory of the nation, rich,

Tumbling records of assets honored,

Sweating below the turban shies,

Bare chest, a loin cloth, and muscular,

Brutalized at brick kilns for his wage,

The young woman was brought,

As a child from the village to the city,

Working in polished houses, sahibs,

A fleet of cars drivers at bay owned,

Children attend school dressed up,

Anglicized attire voice fails to decipher,

Looked the maid, a girl child curious,

Fail to understand accent or order,

She only can watch the laughter,

A joke is actually the wall, wide, separate,

A newborn baby sleeps in a cement bag,

Crying loudly in the shade alone,

Mother carrying bricks on the head,

Look, a wage can keep them alive,

Tomorrow is a holiday, no food,

The big city shanties in the suburban,

Life is distinct in a huge office building,

Round-the-clock work continues,

Money that matters delivers a result,

Overnight business crumbles news,

Laughs paid drivers, attendants,

An industry magnet is  road life drinking,

Desperate to live, a vain attempt,

Trying to betray reality, a beggar,

Aristocratic society in a barricade,

Fails to recognize this person block,

The migrant laborer find as jobless,

Could not get another job starving,

Returns to the village to survive,

Surprised fails to recognize villages,

No more thatched roofs, muddy roads,

Brick houses pitch roads appear,

Electricity mobile towers attract.

Schools with a big compound, crowded,

Health clinics are serving patients,

Farmers well-having tractors, cars,

Females are busy with village products,

Won transport to market in cities,

Migrant is confused and searches for life,

Hundreds of service and skill centers,

Teaching fishery, poultry,  cattle breeding,

Cotton weaving at home to pottery,

Artifacts still relevant domestic tools,

Clay idols, filigree, and paintings business,

Expansive the state of mind ponders,

National Unity day in the school,

School students are singing,

We live here to build our country,

Expansive mood, village kids smile.

 

Title of Poem: Expansive

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Theme: National Unity Day

Date, 31st October 2022, Cuttack

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