INVINCIBLE

 

INVINCIBLE

 

Human life ancient victorious,

Sagacious, legacy tumultuous,

Encountered countless dangers,

Survival stories, link strangers, (1)

 

Crossed turbulent sea river fit,

Crossed mountain cliffs defeat,

Dense forest desert glacier feat,

Human life stories books greet, (2)

 

An admirer of childhood addicts,

Humans endeavor bold predict,

Parental property, my firm land,

Haired farmer landless demand, (3)

 

Half the produced he share year,

Rest is mine paddy costs I bear,

Loving person and four children,

His wife lives with a son, grandchildren, (4)

 

Thatched cottage mud house nit

Polished cow dung colored right,

Adjacent to my land at the border,

Backyard his garden bit wider, (5)

 

The lands belong to me, given,

The sight fruit garden lit driven,

Everything he produces potato,

Onion, leaf for curry or tomato, (6)

 

Jack fruit mango cocoanut fence,

Behind a garden delightful, I sense,

Hard work, age seventy, healthy,

Neither saw a doctor nor wealthy, (7)

 

Scarcely faced sickness medicine,

Seven decades, his life fit, serene,

Three O' clocks in winter freezing,

Cold paralyzes the spine, his working, (viii)

 

Pedals wooden slab lifting water,

From nearby pond to field harder,

Once, I visited early morning frost,

His effort presence lonely a ghost, (9)

 

No benefit or monetary gain in his life,

Under the sun, plowing, less strife,

The whole day, from four O clock like, 

Cultivation for a generation it strike, (10)

 

Strike to my heart where am I live,

Qualified highest degree sick thrive,

List of medicines diagnosis warn,

Regulation diet restfulness scan. (11)

 

In the evening, he takes a bath, meal fried rice,

Visit the temple to chant a practice,

Sleeps after dinner at eight instant,

A bed with cocoanut rope reliant, (12)

 

Perfect his sleep, gets up in time,

Following his children learn fine,

Happiness and peace warmth lit,

Simplicity, serenity, divinity, visit, (13)

 

On the ground, taking food, rice, spices,

Onion chilly garlic potato relishes,

Heath is their wealth, happy work,

Invincible call him uncle my remark, (14)

 

Life passes cannot match discipline,

The objective of his life feeds me to define,

Decided to hand over the land mine,

He served fewer questions a lifetime. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of poem: Invincible

Themes: Unparallel work ethics of peasant

Written: 19th December 2023, Cuttack

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