DOGMA

 DOGMA

Awareness came to me n sensed,

Childhood, a tender age, innocent,

Love all, unpolluted mind, gentle,

Sweet friendliness, charming smiles,

 

Hooked friend circle, little examine,

Trusting heart embraced people met,

Open-minded like behavior, opinion,

Least analyzed pros and cons in detail,

 

Never could occur the concept of a foe,

Differentiated friends on caste creed,

Less talked on faith religion practice,

Study books, topic rest, less touched,

 

Grew touched youth college life new,

Discovered khadi-clad people visiting,

Forming groups, gossiping hideously,

Secretive look, suspecting vogue smiles,

 

Astonished found friends talking a lot,

Word Hindu, Muslim, Christian free,

Campus divided by religion, castes,

Hindus further upper cast or others,

 

Detected animosity, aloofness clean,

Distancing friend circle wide further,

Hateful accusation on a trivial matter,

Quarrel, bitter fight, violence, injury,

 

At short notice, white-clad people seen,

Grouping students openly discussing,

Poisoned their mind, threatened to look,

Found my countryside colors varied,

 

Not for beauty but plurality mutilated,

Adulthood forced us into a dogmatic wall,

Hate rest; love your cast, family, faith,

A nation I saw fractured segmented fail,

 

Failing khadi essence of purity freedom,

Viewed shape of corruption of heart life,

Dividing people, instilling suspicion nit,

Applauding a group, condemning others,

 

Seven decades of my life twilight years,

The enemy is Khadi-clad people, I fear,

Entered to education, altered history,

Dividing even now people to rule them,

 

Made citizens poor, fighting, laughing,

Minted money grabbed power, ruling,

Without shame singing praises land,

Making a farce of democracy freedom,

 

Protects communal, criminal most,

Big scams, elections, money plays well,

Bribing poor, waving rich n elected,

Pretension unlimited patriotic souls,

 

Failure to grab power, streets in flame,

Arson, killing innocent, angry shouts,

Names constitution violator question,

Questions institution army sovereign,

 

For years, observing my beloved country,

Plead current generation sense venom,

Venom in air, water, earth, the people,

For cow prophet can kill people boast,

 

Not faith, not caste creed custom matter,

Shattered population adhere tricolor,

Be proud only once, mingle with lives,

Blindly hug love serve society dedicate,

 

Banish dogma for good, promise to self,

Dedicate your life for the land, be honest,

Love, countrymen, women, children, old,

Little dogmatic at heart serves all bold.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra.

 

 

ZEN

 

ZEN

 

Born after independence, lucky,

Came to know much later the past,

Chained ancient land once rich,

Prosperous in cultural traditions,

Temples, festivals, celebrations,

Tying the country huge with its signature,

Devastated for millennia in fight rivalry,

Culminated with Muslim invasion,

Rulers mutilated ancient faith,

Destroyed temples, universities, customs,

Converted rest killed, people in fear,

Perpetual Zen lost for good, life in slavery,

Mercilessly exploited changed times,

Mughal under the grave, colonial rule expand,

The subject of an island people bled,

Scrapped to bone skeletal existence,

Famished a people unable to fight,

Land of Buddha lost Zen lacking sadly,

In my childhood, we sang the anthem proudly,

Loving the tricolor symbol of independence,

Symbol of freedom, land liberated,

Chains of slavery dismantled, reality,

Youth adulthood time witness Zen,

Confidence in equal rights, free people’s voices,

Exchanged opinion of parent grandparent,

Valuable than diamond liberty, visible,

Peaceful the nation growing faster,

Removing age-old miseries, evil practices,

Reformation took place, education linking,

Rustic life saw knowledge unfolding,

School, college, hospitals, village roads,

Industries visible expanding city-wide,

Automobile, radio, then television reality,

Twilight years, I watch the digital age,

Surprised, artificial intelligence in action,

Changing cyberspace, mobile technology,

Life performing online executes jobs,

Phenomenal transport, travel fast,

Highrise towers, underground rail,

Flyover highways over buildings, busy,

Railways spider net covers country,

Media unimaginable magnitude reality,

Instantly travels the globe, rich remote,

Phenomenal modernization, paradigm change,

Zen is missing, a mind materialistic,

Seeking physical pleasure, luxury,

Definition of comfort lives changing,

Hungry for resources of the earth, vanishing,

Vanished forests, green hills mined,

Fertile lands changed to arid sandy soil,

Water air is polluted, poisonous,

Sick present generation virus newborn,

Killing the entire globe, mutating fast,

Fails immunity, the world confined,

Under quarantine, compulsory mask,

Fearful life fears death lurking invisible,

Evil zeitgeist, breeding terror, jihad,

Kill innocent, unaware gun blazing,

Bursting mortar, grenade, slitting the throat,

Human believes invisible God is direct,

Kill, kill the human race, eliminate cruelly,

A byproduct of the modern age, Zen is missing,

A ringing bell reminds Hiroshima Nagasaki

The silent human race nation asks for Zen.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

Picture: Courtesy, Google

  

INCREDULOUS

 INCREDULOUS

 

Newspaper life of citizens, read most,

Essays, poems, write up decorated,

Peaceful landscape, political analysis,

Inspiring youth, media valuable,

Local languages got encouraged,

Newspapers color custom, culture,

Widely cover festivals, functions,

People prefer posting family matters,

A decent time existing, mother tongue,

Socked people train accident, fire,

Perennial flood, drought, typhoon,

Widely covered spreading affected,

Limited to the morning paper day starts,

Changing phenomenal, a dimension,

Newspaper, television channel, internet,

Local, national news, English, Hindi,

The local television channel, mother tongue,

A plethora of subject variety in color,

News circulated in digital media instantly,

Text, sound, video, picture mediums,

Circulate mobile, laptop, channels,

Unimaginable details, variety, speed,

Contacts worldwide, influencing too,

Pouring out international news instantly,

Forest fire, hurricane, draughts,

Affects people, citizens' views,

In video, pictures, details in the text,

War in foreign countries reaching,

The horror of human crime intimates,

People's news channels make aware,

Doomsday is nearer for the earth, human,

Pollution destroyed nature most,

Depleting forest green house true,

Warns old, youth, and children profusely,

Planting trees, conserving water detail,

Media plays a role in the survival of the world,

Focusing on vanishing species so fast,

Great, my country never lacks news,

Freedom for expression, publishing,

No restriction, democracy marvels,

Mighty the media can criticize,

Fears administration, leader, public,

Media controls discipline, decency,

Exposing arson, looting, violence,

Unbiased, fortunate people, indebted,

Remarks comment observation public,

Digital platform widely circulated,

Newspaper Television hosts discussions,

Host open criticism of wrong policies,

Expose directly corrupt leaders, crime,

Match modern time unthinkable service,

Fullmoon shine dispels darkness,

Moon is dark invisible, yet exists,

The media spreads misinformation, lies,

Tries best to mold the public in the wrong way,

Conscience obliterated, Spread hatred,

Preach sectarian mind sugarcoated,

Spoiling budding youth-adult motivate,

Capture educated illiterate equally,

The digital world's sharp edge knife cuts deep,

Media playing havoc, causing arson,

Killing innocent, media damaging,

Test of democratic country, freedom,

Screening, punishment ban circulation,

Slipping news hideously poisons the mind,

Obscene undesirable for children,

Mobile, internet, media fail protection,

Hurting decency, youth corrupt,

Vulgar expose exhibiting openly fearless,

Equality for women folk show, vulgar,

Magazine, media clips, television shows,

Parents switch off the television, net locked,

The digital world's failed protection spoils most,

Incredulous, our generation perplexed,

Avoid daily news, cultural exhibition,

Avoid venom in guise, presentation,

Incredulous, public, senior citizens, women,

Helpless, think democracy is on the wrong side.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra.

 

 

 

 

 

STUPEFIED

 

STUPEFIED

 

Wait for golden-era arrives impatient,

Peasant community happy got owner,

Owner of their land now reality free,

Never require to share output anymore,

Father forefathers bonded got little,

Handed over grains to landlords owner,

Hard labor yearlong, pittance to survive,

Destined to be poor, live in a mud house,

Few cows, vegetable garden, off-time job,

Serving rich, powerful, fetching sustenance,

Traveling to towns, often sell village products,

Weaving cotton, wooden kits, iron tools,

Earthen potteries, bangles, domestic needs,

Maintaining life, making money few,

Independence has brought freedom,

Cultivate land own, dream of getting rich,

Landless get lands, a plot for the house,

Farmers got assistance, land, irrigated,

Population curse of land youth idle,

Depleted meager earnings so quickly,

Youth jobless, village touts,

Peace getting destroyed, poverty cruel,

Migration starts youth search for jobs,

Exploited by contractors, industry,

Children dropping out from school work,

Feeding old and sick parents,

Extreme poverty, forced parent inhuman,

Selling tiny kids to child labor,

Modernity sweet face cruel intention,

Stole small children for a domestic servant,

Child laborer washes dishes, serve food,

Collecting forest wood industrial laborer,

Growing to youth stage homeless,

Growing street life, beggary, coolie,

Sick, alone, growing children for them,

Uncertain future of child illiterate,

Crime, drug pedaling, cheating, violence,

Dream of captives on freedom shattered,

Disturbed society, walled, aloof,

The class of rich got richer, poor to the poorest,

Never country seen disaster, exploding,

Democracy played a miracle, time change,

Technology, science, business factor,

Growing education, finance, help,

Food, shelter, cloth means to work,

Modernity, making inroads into rural,

Scope for working hard to maintain life,

Demanding products output increase,

Export, widening business, travel,

Communication instant, life informed,

Unbelievable, people escaped from morasses,

Peasant productive, youth innovative,

Children completing education,

Skill touchstone opening avenues,

Unthinkable yesterday, reality easy,

Happy, peaceful society helping others,

Free meals for the poor, free medical checkup,

Adopting poor children help till young,

Shelter home for destitute, old,

Voluntary service is astonishing inspiring,

Corona come migrant got jobless,

A massive population got homeless suddenly,

Specter of return sight, horror,

Walking miles with belonging,

Stupefied worker community hopeless,

Things change migrant returns,

The village scene is never happier,

Stupefied life getting courage, strength,

Searching a golden day, misty, radiating,

Moving en mass to bustling cities,

A democratic republic assures, honestly.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra