STRANGULATION

 

STRANGULATION

 

 

Strangulation chocked breathe,

Causes death consequently, reveals,

Dissect the mortal body check,

Please check thoroughly, O’ doctor,

You shall fail dear, your book too,

Can never find, voice choked,

Silent death creeps in the land,

Watch subtle presence very near,

Picks up your outbursts, cries,

Records condemnation, scorn,

Observes, note hatred, anger,

Passed in second thousand miles,

Censors writing, posts, messages,

Restrict viral cyber media quickly,

Arrested in the dead of night,

Undone, order from an authority,

Obey blindly, execute, imprison,

Hay writer, Raj has gone for good,

Democratic right, liberty by birth,

Citizen, born on the soil, right automatic,

Only hunger killed his frame slowly,

Denied to study, read freely,

Land demanded blood to learn,

Money to enter college, fee rises,

Boarding cost of study untouchable,

Once, he shouted and threatened,

Demand to be skilled freely,

Booked under violence threat,

 An imprisoned case will be a decade,

Unknown face sick, wrote letters,

Letter to judge, ministers, authority,

Lost in the way a machine checks,

Blocked crying heart treat dangerous,

No dynamite, gun, sulfur, gelatin,

No grenade, explosives, his pen,

Far explosive engulfs the nation,

The public will vote against corrupt,

Vote against nepotism, sectarian,

Vote against anarchists, goons,

Mandate against powerful grabbed,

Voters bribed, fooled illiterate once,

A billion people wiser now choosy,

Seek honest, dedicated, true secular,

Lust absent for family, faith, race,

Voters choose a leader youth writes,

Censored the pen, locked up,

The lure of bundles of currencies failed,

Large bungalow, assets, gold, plenty,

Rejected this person, machine’s vice,

On postmortem, nothing you could find,

Could not diagnose a voice choked,

Taunted to reality tagged extremist,

Only once demanded free food, shelter,

Free education, cloth, medicine,

For jobless, destitute, untouchable,

A woman, thrown out of the house,

Demand right to live with dignity,

Treated by law as offensive, penalized,

Banned all speeches, it evokes emotion,

Independence, freedom, birthright,

Yet to touch them, they exist, denied,

The shadowy machine was searching,

Found today the seed before to grow,

Ruler fear revolution may evolve soon,

A forest of rebels will spread,

Dismantle the powerful decided to elect,

Thrown out the body to a dark chamber,

Not Andaman but in city languishing,

Died today sick, untreated, news,

No postmortem effective can highlight,

Truly death due to strangulation,

Not breathe but human voice censored.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

 

STRANGLED

 

STRANGLED

 

Confide openly, secrets hunting,

Sin tells conscience heart admits,

Rejects mind but tags blunder,

Argument learn to get experience,

Pious, ever heart human observed,

Inkling lust trickles desire acute,

Human life challenging why fear,

Known life perishes, curiously a fact,

That born here must die in time,

Life struggles, meet from the start,

Disease, abnormality, hunger links,

Feed till the last rest often needed,

Sleep at night must contemplate,

Half of life sleeps plunder forcefully,

Death is predatory, hideous, cruel net,

Accident curse of life, less announce,

Takes away sight, hearing, limbs,

Cause vegetative stage, non-functional,

Looked at mirrors, image less reflects,

Death accidents happen so suddenly,

How much human life be watchful,

Ever conscience speaks, no silent,

Mind captures heart to watch and hear,

Short life, O’ human, enjoy till the end,

Everybody will die someday, think,

You, be a traveler, discover the world,

Eat and drink taste elixirs of life,

Reject firmly, lust is a poison potion,

Born find limbs perfect achieve a goal,

The soul demands freedom to choose,

Where conscience pricks debar,

Constantly goading to inhibit life,

Teenage, adulthood till age-fighting,

Ruthless was a bitter fight within,

Invisible break applies forcefully,

Paralyzes mind frigid fatal fears,

Projects nightmares, dreams cast,

Sweating gets awake at night,

Find life fights in the dreary desert,

Thirsty, dying for a drop of water,

Drop is the hunger for wealth,

Yes, wants heart for money plenty,

Knocks every corner, at doors, a pity,

Impatient, failure causes desperate,

Depression is Death Valley, morass,

Impregnable fortress dark room,

Ghost imaginary vicious appears,

Ghost is self worries, tension, fear,

Hears weird sounds of beasts,

Dead of the night on a soft cushion bed,

Sweating profusely lighted room,

No one is there to threaten fellow,

Fully awake, sleep won’t touch,

Pills fail together, sunken eyes,

Feel rotten smells around, shaken,

No bad smell, bedroom fresh,

Darkroom of a fortress, only bedroom,

Maddening effects between feeling,

Belief, disbelief, plays mind dirty tricks,

Conscience under a canopy of lust,

Watching knows everything silent,

Knows very well consequence nearer,

Failed spirit now to get strangled,

Strangled once not to see, hear,

Strangled once not speak, taste,

Strangled to drink the wine of touch,

Mind brutally captured soul, a captive,

The soul was no more strangled,

A white dove fled beyond to freedom.  

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

DISOWN

 DISOWN

 

Fortunate, not everybody knows,

Birth never be the choice of fate,

Spoon, gold, jewel, silver, differs,

Spoon denied to children reality,

Mother’s lap, if fate took away,

Never could a tiny baby realizes,

Human relations, very complex acts,

The demise of a woman at delivery,

It happens in life a child motherless,

Spoon is not gold, diamond, or gems,

Spoon is mother’s presence, her lap,

Stepson, life tagged less, felt sad,

Undertone, painful, sad feeling hidden,

Relations community whispers, heard,

Dad got married after mom departed,

Stepson, the eldest child, had siblings,

Two brothers and a sister grew together,

Mom is my stepmother never knew,

Little lacked her lap, her care, warmth,

Festive occasion ceremony at home,

Then siblings got new dresses, shoes,

Dad gave a gift, a mobile, to the eldest,

He, as a young man, less noticed dad,

There are no differences between children,

Parental care, attention, love infinite,

Children least distinguished, in between,

All tell children three brothers, a sister,

Grew to adulthood, eldest in service,

Send money every month in support,

Mom received from him handsomely,

Home once small got bigger in time,

Brick mansion from tiled roof simple,

Increased wooden furniture, assets,

Costly carpets, sofa, dining hall added,

The eldest son felt responsible for the home,

Given his heart, send all income home,

Our home dream will be worth watching,

Boundary walls, backyard, a garden,

Gifted a car for father, now retired,

Monthly expenses, grocery, the electric bill,

Mobile cost of siblings, new dress, fees,

He shared the education cost of younger,

Got immense love from brothers, a sister,

Bro give us this, that, it is urgent,

I need it now, please send money,

Parent demanding, continue growing,

Son now with loans, less complained,

Got married, lost all gifts stayed at home,

Watch, briefcase, ornaments of wife,

Son purchased a flat on loan in the city,

Wife managed him, she found out,

Popper under loans, to nose suffocating,

Stopped all earnings to send home,

Started payments, maintained her home,

A letter strong worded from mom,

Son received, read, was crying,

 A selfish, cruel, arrogant, a list was long,

The last word addressed to him as a stepson,

The man matured but asked his wife,

How he was a stepson, he couldn’t know,

She read the letter, replied to him,

You are disowned by your parents.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

TANTRUM

 TANTRUM

 

Green grain fields, cocoanut groves,

Garden of a youth, banana leaves,

Adjacent to field canal greenish,

Admiringly boathouse sailing, invite,

Freshness in air aural infiltrating,

Sunlight orange, bright, entices,

Charming fair lady flower ornate,

Silhouette of female visitors in a boat,

Get down softly, move in fields,

Sparkles cluster of lotus in the pond,

Instinctively youth picked a lotus,

Offered to the lady she received,

She liked lotus pink, gave it to a friend,

Somehow, got youth dissatisfied,

Looking at her beauty, calm, composed,

Her white dress to knee silken shiny,

White shoe pointed high heels,

Slender leg white foot but tall,

A white figure, face charming from far,

Dark eyes, black eyebrows, red lips,

Awestruck youth by her beauty,

From a distance stood like a rock,

Looking at her eyes eyelids didn’t bat,

Hooked to her presence, forgot rest,

The nature, moving boat now rest,

Must be waiting for her, a visitor,

Suddenly the young woman looked,

Caught eyes of youth, smiled, waved,

Indicated to come near, he watched,

Immovable like rock, little blinked,

Looking straight at her invitation,

He looked back, in sock approached,

The fair female scrutinizing him,

Sat on a nearby rock, started drawing,

Requested youth to stand in front,

Told to be still as he was looking,

She drew black, granite, muscles,

Bare chest, shining black face,

Wide eyes penetrative innocent,

A stick on hand, loincloth cotton,

Covering up to thighs, firm, strong,

She drew pencil pictures exactly,

His white teeth between thick lips,

Long nose face as if idol of Lord,

She was discussing with her friend,

Bare feet, the youth inquired shyly,

What she will do with a pencil drawing,

She could not understand local talk,

Explained friend to her, and she laughed,

Tell him, I shall draw a painting,

Today, he is my hero, imaginary,

Appeared as a frame amidst nature real,

Inkling, she thought if Krishna calling,

She gave thousand rupees for the dress,

Another thousand for the shoe to buy,

Started leaving, the youth returned,

Returned notes into her hands,

Folded hands, he told not a beggar,

Was the owner of fields, cocoanut yard?

Came to enquired about the stranger,

Loved her sight, thought a beauty,

She asked to forgive, left quickly,

The youth embraced tantrum stood,

The sun sank, and darkness invaded.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTRINSIC

 

INTRINSIC

 

 

It was near midnight birthday,

Receiving hundreds of greetings,

Crestfallen at news spread wildfire,

British queen departed that night,

Ruled Her Majesty equal my age,

Indian prime ministers all, the present,

All duration queen interacted,

Host of the US presidents hosted,

Post world war her period began,

Mammoth construction world over,

From east to west, rebuilt endeavors,

Queen, citizens saw, London rebuilt,

War destroyed families, left remnants,

Consolidated England, India free,

Commonwealth nostalgic bond exists,

Queen graceful, enchanting travel,

People lovingly adored Her Majesty,

The smile, her address to the world,

Honored wholehearted respected,

New millennium, queen an enigma,

Proud English no more dominating,

War emptied the Chest, suffocating,

Monarchy steered her kingdom boldly,

Free crown of the jewel, commonwealth,

The Anglo-Saxon relationship grew stronger,

Majestic Buckingham palace sight,

Visitors of world trotters prized pictures,

Queen, the family, energized world media,

World over popular, the face, her crown,

Generations understood the queen historic,

Sun never sets in her territory, global,

Discussed, contested, admit grudgingly,

Humanity accepts the queen, a royal symbol,

Not for the British, all continents accord,

Impressed head of British race ancient,

The tall English man blue eyed travel,

Conquered the globe colonies sprout,

Travelers in ships spread far-flung,

Conquered pecans, Everest, Sahara,

Dauntless race challenged territories,

Where no human can dare, America,

Subjects of queen bear royal flag,

Flows world over their dress full pant shirt,

Speaks world,  their language English,

The world communicates travel,

Citadel of university dream of youth,

Never escape the myth of her majesty,

The royalty spirit of the past was admired,

Taught freedom parliament to all,

Oxford, Shakespeare, writer poets,

English literature, science, technology,

Industrial age for word born here,

Royal symbol worldwide impressive,

Accepts black, brown, from a colony,

Queen allowed citizenship or cross,

My nation watches students flock,

Think the face impressionable,

Dignified, respected by people,

Compassionate, kind, and motherly,

Fifty-four nations, commonwealth,

Linked to the queen, historical respect,

British-Isles so sad felt countries,

World over sends tributes somberly,

Seven decades of ruling a crucial period,

World transforming to a new horizon,

Her rule, the longest monarch, empire,

Once her ruling but linked visible,

India says the RAJ intrinsic values,

Speaks in English, dressed with a tie,

Polished boot, haircut, skirt, blouse, attire,

Living among billions, your memories,

Through generation values intrinsic,

English intrinsic is freedom and democracy.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra