GRAIN

 

GRAIN

 

 

Eons, human got awestruck, mad,

A grain of rice or wheat time sad,

Unknown era when nomads to halt,

Found weeds tall, granary tumult,(1)

 

Hungry humans moving, endless,

Hunting the means, survival less,

Hostile earth and climate devour,

Human lives in cave beasts favor, (2)

 

God knows when humans found,

Fire the cooking food spellbound,

Changed lifestyle grain blessing,

Nomad to civilization live kissing, (3)

 

Cultivation harvest ancient host,

The human population, scarcely lost,

Rain visits, flood, fails to famine,

Crop harvest to failure life define, (4)

 

Store granaries bountiful motion,

Know human value grain notion,

Caution to save water, irrigation,

Water reservoir dams precaution, (5)

 

Fertile land greenery nature hire,

Peaceful, happy life, prosper, care,

Generations, farmers tilling stays,

Bullock cart, oxen, plowing ways, (6)

 

Cow dung fertilizer, yet preserved,

Ripe grains field golden deserved,

The sight of mesmerizing wind play,

Waves of delight sustains life say, (7)

 

Vanishing pictures diminish lives,

Erode landscape, forest deprives,

Dust storm early warning desert,

Rural luster destroyed lacks effort, (viii)

 

Migration million lives throng hit,

Begging bowl a morsel of food lit,

A grain of rice weighed a ton of gold,

Scarce to obtain fight lives scold, (9)

 

Cities, industry, modern life sad,

Lifeless hostile land lost emerald,

Visits harvesting cornfield glory,

Golden Aura annual labor, story, (10)

 

Forests green, river blue or water,

Trees countless fruit orchards here,

Mother Earth, her gifts grain admit,

Allure verdure child smile predict, (11)

 

Assurance rosy tomorrow a grain,

Simple living, ample food ingrain,

Centuries of villages stood survived,

Cities built, ruined, death revived, (12)

 

Never lost to human lesson bold,

Grains of rice on a rooftop, hold,

At dawn, pigeons converge timely,

Water bucket, strewn rice nicely, (13)

 

Surprised my heart touched time,

Pigeons wait patiently in grain line,

Cooked rice, water, bullock wait,

Watch my clock stand to look quiet, (14)

 

The sense of timing is phenomenal,

Grain satiates hunger, life is magical, 

Birds or beasts detect, rightly grain,

Alas, human forgets, lives drain. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Grain

Themes: Critical to survive a grain of rice

Written: 26th October 2023, Cuttack

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