SOFT CORNER

 

SOFT CORNER

 

Unknown, unaware, there is a place,

Sits there, hours quietly, finds grace,

The bliss, peace, inner happiness lit,

Soul experiences, like place delight, (1)

 

Like childhood to age place change,

River bank to park temples strange,

Quiet hours pass these time longer,

Fly past in a second, looks stronger, (2)

 

Dies out contempt, sorrows, look up,

Tomorrow, yet unknown, I brush up,

Preferred seclusion, not outer inner,

My preference, heart love, encounter, (3)

 

Unconditional love preferential tilt,

Life runs after for goods or rebuilt,

Spend a million, lose a thousand, sock,

Things matter mostly, prefers luck, (4)

 

Tagged as madness, foolishness, hit,

Betting human heart dream deceit,

To gain the attention of someone, drain,

Speechless why youth madly train, (5)

 

Aspects material subject abstracts,

Touch if heart, fail answer extracts,

They love, you love, love less admit,

Human efforts capture and deny ambit, (6)

 

Things attract, person attractive, top,

Words praised lack substance, hope,

Look confused, tried vainly, failed, lit,

Smiled inward at a soft corner neat, (7)

 

Grandma, her slipper, glass is secret,

Mom, her vanity bag bangles wicket,

Dad, his glass notebook pen silence,

Sister her ticket to cinema hall lens, (viii)

 

Younger brother, plenty of books, list,

Girlfriend now wife her times, tryst,

A bench at the corner of the park near,

She demanded preferred every hour, (9)

 

Discussion, summary nothing, smile,

Her perfume gossip rumors in style,

Confess, convey soft corners noticed,

Rich dividend utilized duly received, (10)

 

Pleased if Dad, Mom, grandma, sister,

Pleases my wife, a girlfriend forever,

Touched the soft corner got praises,

preference heart wishes eyebrows raise, (11)

 

Not goods money eateries delicacies,

Not dresses place costly accessories,

What touches me, sweet street children,

To celebrate my birthdates smitten, (12)

 

Distribute sweets to them, make fun,

Soft corner of my heart, orphan won,

Lord lives in each of their hope tears,

Weep their tears, bring smiles clear, (13)

 

Don't need money, asset friendship,

Occasions visit to temple courtship,

Look at the stone idol, hands folded, bow,

Failed to recollect time begged show, (14)

 

Prayed for unlucky children I meet,

Begged for the Lord's mercy, fate's defeat,

The soft corner in my heart still probing,

Befriend life, mysterious, if swinging. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Soft Corner

Themes: Life is without reason

Written: 6th December 2023, Cuttack

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