SILK THREAD

 

SILK THREAD

 

Divine purpose, love, and graceful,

Delicate fingers, Lord created soft,

Created muscular frames for a male,

Attractive, the feminine loves a face,

Feminine beauty is round and smooth,

Attractive, sight resembles a flower,

Divine wish flower is colored, fragrant,

From far honey bees detects the smell,

Searches male heart partner, a cycle,

Procreation, divine will, world exists,

Family in existence grows civilization,

Parents in generation forming a clan,

Children linking parents divide links,

Thread, a lineage of hierarchy distinct,

Link through marriage to a different one,

A daughter will be daughter-in-law,

Finds the girl child a heritage noble,

The mother of a family of her husband,

Sons continue with their families,

A girl, through marriage, gets her home,

How many events, functions passed,

Family remembers every detail,

Birth, death, and marriages  predominate,

Relationships widen through generation,

Find the thread entwined inter-mingled,

I was searching the silk thread sacred,

Relationship between a brother and sister,

Siblings, the same fruits of a branch,

A girl gets married, leaves her home,

Leave parents, parents-in-law is reality,

Brother stays, keeps the link alive,

Protects sister through up and down,

Attends her family ceremonies,

Uncle, a beautiful presence in respect,

Mother's brother still families linked,

A silk thread ties to the brother's hand,

The ceremony is an important festival,

Establishes sacred relationships,

Females think of a brother as a protector

Thread a woman's life in case of widowhood,

Untimely, the death of her husband happens,

The silk thread keeps sinking life afloat,

The softest feeling tying thread,

With oil-lit lamp sweets on a plate,

Worship sister, her brother, love in heart,

In return gets a new dress, sweets,

Taunts elder brother and demands money,

I have seen in life relationships,

Relationships with parents, elders,

Relationships with kin many,

Relationship with better half prime,

A bond between brother and sister,

A silk thread represents soft love,

True friendship growing to the age,

Memorable listless events or fun,

Countless cut-offs, friendships re-tied,

Fear sister to confess before a parent,

Easily confides to brother reminds,

Never to disclose her secrets a faith,

Reverse the story truth is kept secret,

His sister's heart stored his confession,

Note childhood pain, mistakes, love,

Innumerable desires, failure, sis knows,

Never let parents know to save punished,

Elder sister, a second mother guides,

Reminiscence of her departure, wedding,

Heartbroken a time, sis is missing,

Accompanies her to her in-law's home,

Heavenly love, a silk thread tied in hand.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

 

 

REBIRTH

 

REBIRTH

 

 

Disbelieve life is so mercurial,

Impossible to guess the direction,

Uncoiled time before me ecstatic,

I followed drunk whimsical happy,

Found unearthly treasure in me,

Discovered in my heart blossoming,

Red rose fragrant in vision, my love,

Budding youth saw the flowering,

Fascinated by feminine beauty,

Lost my time befriending girls,

University campus impetus really,

The campus canteen, garden,

The Interval at class lunch hours,

Passed with girlfriend in gossip,

Talks ever end, wait to be continued,

Examination arrival separates,

Quiet night alerted study remember,

Her face was floating on pages,

Closed books writings practiced,

Surprised it was ending in a letter,

Similar symptoms affected her,

We passed with success is the story,

Imprinted her presence in my heart,

Never could think of missing her,

The story of life ending is always tragic,

Friends in youth get separated,

Day in and day out occupied thoughts,

Time widens the distance sadly,

We were writing letters regularly, in love,

Waiting for marriage employment,

The home I saw in innumerous,

Couple with kids making fun,

Affected by envy was dreaming,

Salary of the first month I counted,

Home, marriage, child arrives,

A day came I decided to visit her,

Told her my arrival time date,

She was listening to me silently,

I didn't get her reply and failed to notice,

When knocking on her home, surprised,

She has gone to meet her parents,

Parents arranged a marriage proposal,

She never disclosed to me the fact,

The moment I surmised reality,

Rebellious in heart, I was shattered,

Felt the ground was moving under,

Imbalanced collapsed in a sock,

Disbelieve whom I once loved,

My soul revolted as if dying,

Thought earth was rotating fast,

I hold my head in both hands,

It was midnight alone on the road,

Could not recognize the place,

Shattered, careless sat on a bench,

The railway platform trains moving,

Saw people traveling, thought,

All of them have a destination,

Alone on a bench, I searched,

Where shall I go to die peacefully,

No more dreaming of a home, a couple,

Smiling at distant kids was unreal,

Miracle the incident calling mom,

How are you, dear child dad is sick,

Please come home and attend to him,

I found my duty and the destination,

The cold wind from an open window,

The train was moving fast, matched me,

Tears dried; I could see I was needed,

Not alone, my parent seeking me,

A sleep engulfing me, living worth,

Discovering for me the rebirth.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

Theme: Fiction

 

 

 

 

MIRROR

 

MIRROR

 

 

Writes about the expressive heart,

Heart mercurial reflects feelings,

Silent introvert observes minutely,

Life prefers seclusion, thinking intensely,

Focus mind eyesight distant analyses,

A spirit so passionate chooses a pen,

Deep within experiences soul mirror-perfect,

The mind projects a colorful world, changing,

Time is the player changes course of life,

Shifts goal of a person plays cruelly,

Little understood rule of the game,

Destiny deviates, progress, fate, finish,

Failure turns to success luck decides,

Life plays dramas, tragic to climax,

A trillion human stories in paints,

Each painting is a life story, gets famous,

People engrossingly discuss events,

Surprises, turn of life twists intricate,

Succulent parts of a story capture the mind,

Reader hooked, addicted to thrills,

Landscapes provide background,

Horror interlaces with fear socks,

A sudden change of ground lightens,

Lightens a human heart with the dawn,

Glorious moments life sparks touching,

Adulated with love, kindness, care,

The author devastates the reader's heart,

Anticipations killed brutally linked,

Sadness grips life tension clad story,

Life, if ever can escape from the nightmare,

Night covers pages patience on trial,

Inks morning glories wink smiles to read,

Page after page, a book hooks with interest,

Curious about outcomes, life in the end,

Hello reader, halt here, please, look at,

A writer's mind catches those reflections,

Reflects mind myriad such mirrored,

Ink flows mirrors images perfectly,

The intensity of thought mind concentrates,

Finds suitable words coined to please,

Pleasant reading, every word chosen,

Lines carry meanings life reflected,

Here the great writers send messages,

Message to humanity provides solutions,

Studies social evil, prejudices, wolves,

In between lines of the pages hidden,

Deep analysis of writing projects,

Each heart understands differently,

The fact negated diverse opinions,

Ultimately a book is understood,

It becomes famous wins time reprinted,

Book in several languages printed,

The world community finds the story,

Surprising it matches social issues,

Ideal solutions life depicts as shared,

People love to view cine motion,

Life, written by a pen fictional only,

Actors portray a lively real-life story,

The world community gives standing ovations,

The writer in a dark room once wrote,

Looked at urban life, rustic people,

Mingled in nature, experienced in detail,

Crossed oceans toured continents,

People before his telescope noticed,

Human emotion reactions searched,

Under microscopic scrutiny remembered,

Natures vagaries, panorama puzzling,

Ink reflects duly, the book is transparent,

Ink is a mirror that captures life in images.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra.

REBORN

 REBORN

  

The day I was a witness, observed,

Imprinted in my heart is a tragic event,

Brokenhearted, I couldn't withstand,

A young girl in our neighborhood,

Deceived by her lover, fled from a locality,

Pregnant, she was condemned by the public,

Females were beating her mercilessly,

Scolding, addressing, lowly character,

Her mother was slapping her own forehead,

Scornful, men were looking angry,

Her father was sitting on the road,

Holding his head, looked down,

I wondered if he was crying in shame,

She was thrown out of her home,

She sat under a nearby tree,

Next dawn, she vanished totally,

No one could see her in the town,

I remember that evening starkly,

The event churned my heart,

A young girl, pregnant, is missing,

No one is concerned about her,

Her parents tried to forget her,

She was the point of gossip, nasty,

Even young women criticized her,

Elderly persons called her a prostitute,

The topic came to my home, heard,

My wife and daughter were commenting,

Felt extremely bad for society, then,

What should we teach my daughter,

Never love a young man in life,

In a split second, I knew paralyzing,

Tell daughter to keep disciplined,

Truth, humanity faced, a reality,

Unwanted pregnancy, killing fetus,

To save dignity from a failed marriage,

Murder a life in the womb innocent,

I dignified the girl in my heart,

A mother in the future protects her child,

Betrayed her lover, her cruel life revealed,

The soul of an unfortunate girl loved,

Trusted a human, I contemplated,

Who exhibits love and care, cheated,

We loved university campus girls,

Dared to express a loving heart, knew,

Many friends stamped their affairs,

To love-marriage resulted in a relationship,

How many boys had gone to prison,

Tell my turbulent thoughts, so natural,

Simple a Youngman loves a girl,

Naturally, human nature exhibits,

A thousand Novels the motion picture,

Applauded by viewers, a box office,

The man, who made his girl pregnant,

Fled, the cowardly act, a serious crime,

He gets married, gets prestige a lot of,

The hypocrisy of civil society is bare,

A shelter home philanthropic helped,

Funded by my capability to search,

They found her begging and admitted her,

Took care of the baby and the mother,

A year after, I visited her, enquired,

How are you feeling, dear child?

Her answer was crisp and touching,

Reborn, sir, I never believed.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

MENDING

 MENDING

  

Silent moments awestruck life,

Fled with fear, tension, worries,

Enough, enough ghastly scenes,

Modern turbulent world violent,

Intelligent, literate learned nil,

Empty heart sans love kindness,

Angry world ferocious life beastly,

Hatred rules the mind evil performs,

Closed windows, shaken, sit quietly,

Looking at the heart of a human, felt,

Life passed so soon, decades long,

Fighting with impressions love exists,

Torn clothes females mending alert,

Designed patches save a cloth,

Needle stitches, threads colored,

Attractive get worn-out clothing,

How similar human care softly,

Mending wrecked lives, stitching,

Careful, conscious a heart bleeds,

Invisible under microscope reality,

Amaze the heart experiences,

Subtle, shivers in fear in midday,

Mind projects lurking spirits cruel,

Stalks behind senses heart trembles,

 The reason is dark past hunted longer,

Tortured, beaten black and blue,

Humiliated by being treated savagely,

Self-dignity is violated repeatedly,

Molested at lonely hours, insensible,

Shame forces the tender soul to hide,

Assimilates inhuman treatments,

A heart pressed everything tightly,

Never allow a leak to surface,

Little teary eyes, biting lips stays,

Remorse hello spirit ever observed,

The person carries the heart rare,

Aspire immensely to live but drawn,

Under the dark bottom of an ocean,

The ocean of infinite sorrows exists,

Her heart, desperate to surface, breath,

Suffocated to inhale the fresh air,

Wishing to live, escape a dungeon,

God all merciful, soul pray not,

At least find the cause of agonies,

Believed never committed sins,

Knows not as a cursed human,

Knows not abnormal behaves,

When cries out, look at vacantly,

Sobs intermittently, then laugh,

The smiles felt weird resting body,

Does not know a crowded place, malls,

Sleeps on the pavement under a hot sun,

Sleeps at railway station bus stand,

Walking with luggage at midnight,

Where the soul goes, a destination,

I surmised God, sure to liberate,

Demise will be the blessed gift of the Lord,

No, life is miraculous never ends,

Someone picks up the tattered limbs,

Takes the ill-fated life to a shelter,

Washed bruised limbs carefully,

Dressing the person feed slowly,

Holding the head reclines the body,

Sleeping if an endless age in a lap,

The day begins, life restarts socked,

Fights between reality or unreal dream,

Looked at the hospitality intensely,

Silent never speaks but obeys,

Have you seen torn heart mended,

Needle pricks skin with a soft touch,

Thread is empathy consoles soul,

A deep wound is healing up slowly,

A deadwood watch leaves protrude,

Deep green stems growing faster,

Tearful, feeling in my room, thinking,

Angels move to suture torn lives,

Selfless, mending wounded heart,

Mending keeps life reborn again!

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra

 

 

 

 

CONFRONT

 

CONFRONT

 

Confide the story that wounded,

Insulted media, people, my country,

Humiliated constitutional head freely,

Devastated social fabric torn, angered,

Attacked media, unbiased posts, facts,

Journalists feel insecure, face laws,

It means vogue freedom to publish,

Coin democracy or the constitution,

Equal-right and fighting for the right,

Liberty, linked to intentional, a provoke,

Read news national and state issues,

Conflict controls communities,

Long arms law fails to trace a few,

Invisible to public  and police acts,

Foment trouble, peace, amity, affects,

Speak the fact, face troubles,

Be alert, decently spirit, keep silent,

Check the swaging tongue angry,

Evade arson, loot, burning, be safe,

If knew, pretend ignorant evade,

Who is right or culprit is confusing,

Guise, not easy to crack, ignore,

A citizen under the lens is watched,

Traffic, internet, public places,

Under surveillance hook interest,

Complain media will censor,

A viral cyber circuit will be booked,

Notice under offense trouble,

A generation back, tell me frankly,

No intimidation or prosecution,

Civil liberty respected, published,

Healthy discussion amity prospered,

Trust between tongues, cultures,

Tolerance was visible to all faiths,

Attack on country, rule, minimal,

Based, really, on corruption, delay,

Fiery comments inflamed the public,

Respected writers, authors praised,

Bruised with satire, caustic views,

Threats communicated on life,

Current scenarios point to safety,

Security ensured if non-reactive,

The freedom life enjoyed vanishing,

Forced arms of law restrict all,

Festival an issue violence-prone,

Keep within doors, enjoy home,

Walking alone on the road is unsafe,

Equally dangerous at day or night,

Write this unpleasant world, reality,

Dangerous environment polluted,

Air, water, food, the human mind,

Poisonous beware of the soul be aloof,

Democracy is the biggest joke, laughing,

Source of crime, power, and the rich,

Bends arm of laws at whims,

Confides to you be silent, timid life,

Fearful of light, cyberspace, media,

Watch floods, cyclones, and fires, pray,

Pray for the country, safe, united,

Pray for peaceful land, be happy,

Prayer for the poor, sufferer, innocent,

Pray for rulers, safe, function,

Pray for the media, the honest, help people,

Pray for a university, truly autonomous,

Free from politics, religion, and conflicts,

Pray, better confront the loose tongue.

 

@ Bijayananda Mishra