TRAPPED

 

TRAPPED

 

Breaks dawn spreads to color,

Orange eastern sky magnetic,

What happened, gathering clouds,

Spreading shadows dampen heart,

Transforms nature, changes heart,

Mind, once bright, found clouded,

Unknown event steals unknowingly,

Lost smiling face happiness sadly,

Blistering dry summer burn limbs,

Perennial squall thunderous knock,

Looking, parched lips, frustrated eyes,

Hail storms instantly plunder sorrows,

Dancing, soaked to the bone, cry out,

Spirit soaring spirally blot weariness,

Jovial state, jubilant mind celebrate,

Squall passes over soon sun blazes,

Alas, focusing mind elsewhere trapped,

Who traps me so often, then ditches,

Vibrant, colorful flowers bedecked,

Intoxicated mind by now singing,

Lo honey bee got wild trapped by color,

Sucking honey unaware pollinates,

Inkling idea could never fathom,

Trapped by fragrant beauty buzzing,

I smile at how foolishly trapped too,

Look evadingly film posters, heroin,

Seduced by her taunting looks boldly,

Attractive dress, slender frame creepy,

Stolen thoughts day long in the night,

Plunder my dreams, melts at dawn,

Why life feels tearful, sad, incoherent,

Cursed this lusty heart torment much,

Inconceivable screen queen to befriend,  

Escapes from the trap thank to clues,

Understand life habitually gets trapped,

Stood speechless in the front showroom,

New car with bright color shining,

The signboard indicates easy payments,

Bank loan available to purchase,

Lost my stability for a whole week,

day-long calculating income saving,

Crestfallen convinced it impossible to buy,

Experiences remorse disappear luster,

This was a saga of my life, hoped many,

Good job, a promising career, family,

Dreamed for months of a dream girl,

Looked at a bus, a train standing in a mall,

Looking at beautiful faces lost my mind,

Unknown to me, ignored vanished,

Neither food nor comfort was sought,

Discovered fever of love and search,

One quiet evening silence realized,

Trapped again, foolishly wait for a chance,

Twilight years laugh a lot at my heart,

How naughty it was to chain me easily,

Had the dream girl that I wanted,

Got promising career jobs, children,

Have sweet home my car gadgets,

Everything came in time I desired,

The human mind desires unlimited,

Trapped cunningly looted all happiness.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Trapped

Themes: Mind plays traps steal peace

Written: 24th June 2023, Cuttack

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CONCUR

 

CONCUR

 

 

A stubborn heart dictates aroused,

Synchronizes mind all actions,

Doubt, if, but all creep, sabotage,

An enemy from birth soul cries,

Suspect strange world unknown,

Faces looking amused, surprised,

From perennial darkness to light,

A child is born light captives instantly,

Human belief, the radiance divine,

Encounter that instant vanishes,

Noises, touch, food mold slowly,

The blaze is forgotten, trivialized,

This light exists within perfectly,

Experienced in life from children,

Shining their eyes gleaming face,

Sparkling teeth amid dark hair,

Often witness tears reflect light,

Radiates emotion thought silently,

Light provides warmth, hugs kids,

Warmth shared my heart probing,

How come life radiates warmth,

A light that divine existence stays,

Watched rivers brimming full,

Spate flooding waters breached,

Breached the embankment, strong,

Changes rive in the season to sand bed,

The arrogance, pride, mindless no more,

Quiet, serene blue waters project,

Muddy waters whirlpool swirling,

Astonished mind exhibits doubtful,

Overwhelm heart trusting light,

Shows condense to gathering cloud,

Reject creation, control of the master,

Wishes actuate, automatic, negated,

Not at all substantive to surrender,

A human mind can fight to withstand,

Control elements as the desired mend,

To productive resources and output,

Defy the invisible power goad element,

Ingenuity intelligence thinking unites,

Recreate, hypothetically, hypocrisy,

Artificial intelligence, devised by humans,

Perform like a human or excel further,

Where is this light and warmth within?

Stops their philosophy completely,

The periphery of matter science light exists,

Light exists in Sun, moon, or Earth,

Lighted universe galaxies, stars,

The cumulative light is candlelight,

Lighted by myself, oil lamp burning,

Same is this phenomenon feature,

Close my eyes image duly glimmers,

Mind is a mirror, reflects perfectly,

Accurate if is an image opposite,

Strike thoughts into mind mysterious,

The soul within is a reflection of light,

This light is from an oil lamp lit brightly,

Crumbling disbelief fades doubt soon,

Concur life is a burning candle or boon. 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Concur

Themes: Light is life to concur

Written: 23rd June 2023, Cuttack

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EVALUATIVE

 

EVALUATIVE

 

Essay life scripts are invisible,

Mind dictated all along neatly,

How often the heart was rebellious,

Protesting spirit paralyzing limbs,

Grumbles life desires intensity,

Promoting anger in veins rushing,

Unwilling to leave sweet home,

Leaving the better half longer cruelly,

Somber, her pale face hiding tears,

The half-ajar bedroom looked silently,

Her eyes pointed transfixed, staring,

Matching eye ball to eye ball a second,

Devastated, heartbroken, evaded now,

Unblinking, her bright eyes signaled,

Communicating a thousand messages,

Don't leave dear, sweet home at all,

Look at children understand, sadly,

Know their father leaving for a long,

Longing desperately for cancellation,

Intolerable absence of Papa sobbing,

Controlling their best crying frigid,

Opened the front door was raining,

Summer is leaving rain clouds,

The entire sky turned dark and dampened,

The street is submerged under water,

Not a pedestrian visible or traffic,

Carried heavy luggable on the back,

Fearing not to look behind, leave quickly,

Knew heart melt, to watch kids,

That was a sad evening got soaked,

Walked miles to pick up the bus,

Hundreds of miles away got a job,

Assured of good income, best luck,

Realized earnings can change fate,

From abject poverty to a luxurious life,

Never thought of self-comfort,

Children will be lucky to get an education,

Dreaming children will be officers,

Wished should not be a cycle mechanic,

Let not daughter be a domestic worker,

Her progress in her study offers opportunities,

She will be educated, wealthy, working,

Her husband is a handsome man,

Reputed family well-known accept,

Felt tears on the bus thinking,

Must leave my shop for good,

Work in the distant city get plenty of,

Wife no more will work at houses,

For domestic-servant, a tag will be erased,

She will cook food well, feed children,

Get new dresses for her and the kids,

The home will have a television, fridge,

Cooking gas kitchen new life,

Electricity fan electric light,

Children will be reading comfortably,

Plenty of books, paper, utilities,

No problem with school fees to attend,

That was an evening mind rock solid,

Refused pleading heart protesting soul,

Decades after expressing my surprise,

Both children are studying in cities,

Papa, we need money send please,

His wife is alone now in her home,

Leaving the job kids employed,

A pension that can sustain life,

Knocked on the front door surprised her,

Stunned to find me in front,

Told everything decisions evaluative,

Let rest of our life in peace with care,

Support her slim frame, tender limbs,

Help her a life decent and quiet,

Life itself evaluative time dictate.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Evaluative

Themes: Family life contemplative

Written: 22nd June 2023, Cuttack

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WHISPERS

 

WHISPERS

 

 

Remember the golden name of the people,

The sub-continent outpour love,

Flood the reminiscences of freedom,

Song millions of tearful eyes respect,

National anthem of twin countries,

Sing your inks overwhelms uniting.

Teenage, we read innumerable stories,

Heart touching linger for life long,

Left the consequences of life in society,

Generations ponder about stories,

Left purposefully to the reader well,

Humanity poses questions in myriad forms,

Who sales bangles find the widow,

Floods in the Ganges swept a child,

Life not only waits for the news but reader,

Hundreds of stories and study books detail,

Enchanting across all age stories,

Life passed sweetly with Rabindra Sangeet,

Walking in the evening marrow lanes,

Kolkata inspires with the songs sweetly,

Practices a people's favorite fascinating,

Inspire the ancient country in recent times,

Remain united O people forget divisions,

The cast creed religion stone wall divide,

The freedom safe secured people united,

Innumerable poems quick fix fractures,

Light up the faces of mistrusted minds,

Smilingly hugging different communities,

The conviction belief inks inspiring,

National flags of both countries profess,

Stay united to ensure freedom, equality,

The poet is becoming immortalized,

Searched divine Gurudev his story,

Lord whispered in his dream to visit,

Lord will come by a chariot, and he waited,

The leather smith was shouting loudly,

His focus was on the road and trolleys,

In the darkness got a reply from the Lord,

I came as a leather smith but ignored,

Every living being is my abode I reside,

The seer got the grace of the Lord he dreamed of,

Paradise he silently dreams, and a cottage,

Lord invites him to be his home,

The mortal remains he left here is living soul,

Bow nation's head in respect to the time,

His spirit descended on the land in a chain,

His poems, stories, and books are living,

His pen can play wonder astonishingly,

The wind blows in the mind of the reader gently,

Springs get alive reader is dreaming,

River Padma and Bhagirathi enliven sight,

The water-air fabric of society is distinct,

Local legends, myths, call of Kabuliwala,

Biwa Bharati great university propagates,

Whispers of Kabuliwala as if real,

Thakur painted the picture of still walking,

In myriads of narrow roads of Kolkata.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Whispers

Themes: Birth anniversary of Tagore

Shared: 9th May 2023, Cuttack

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