VIRULENT
Awaken the heart well
influence,
Paradise on Earth allures
intense,
The verdures and landscape
song,
Drunken mind captive lifelong,
(1)
The picturesque river,
mountain,
Kissing horizons valleys
fountain,
Rural farmlands, granaries
swell,
Bountiful soil sacred patriot
hail, (2)
Realized a billion soul hunger
met,
Prosperity significant living
great,
Affluent, poverty line uplifted
best,
Growing population happy
attest, (3)
Mud houses or paddy straw
roofs,
Concrete towers, highways
proofs,
Touching skyline glass tower
tall,
Reflect brilliant sunlight
enthrall, (4)
Once lived poor lives yet
suffered,
A curse for human poverty
offered,
Sickness, illiteracy, savage
state,
Jobless, landless, homeless,
waste, (5)
Cries vibrated silent night horror,
The untimely death of a child
or mother,
Life sunken, shrunken eyes,
blank,
Yester years voter promise
prank, (6)
List food, house, cloth,
employment,
Election date over lo
temperament,
Forgotten promise exploiting
country,
Democracy crippled sign no
entry, (7)
Changed miraculously city,
village,
Prosperous, joyous, peaceful
craze,
Disbelieve, how possibly
changed,
Rejected by people, plot,
avenged, (viii)
Revenge in heart, spitting
venom,
Toxic worm instilled time
inform,
Fratricidal war engineered,
angry,
Lost power, lost favor, vote,
hungry, (9)
Burning streets looted shops,
sadly,
Cruelty inhabits life, acting
madly,
Dividing yet united as never
before,
Cohesion, fraternity pricks
torture, (10)
Mandates country has seen
twice,
Strengthened hard work,
sacrifice,
Rejected fraudsters replace
honest,
Country progress, selfless
behest, (11)
One nation, one rule, one
boundary,
Dismantle bulldozed walls
cursory,
Underworld trampled if gun
silent,
Safety and security stable
resilient, (12)
The growing strength,
womanhood,
Astonishing growth life
withstood,
Skilled battle-ready fighter
pilots,
Female portrait educated
ballots, (13)
President, misters, leader,
female,
Harmonistic male chauvinism
fail,
The golden period erased
slavery,
Centuries of colonial rule
savagery, (14)
Millennium invaders looted,
burned,
Ancient past charred, liberty
earned,
Still lurks in mind treason
virulent,
Shadowy figures pen in guise,
silent, (15)
The country still fears dark
blind alleys,
Enemies wait to attack virulent
parleys. (16)
Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Title of Poem: Virulent
Themes: Fifth columnist viral
lurks
Written: 20th August 2023,
Cuttack
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