SOFT CORNER

 

SOFT CORNER

 

Unknown, unaware, there is a place,

Sits there, hours quietly, finds grace,

The bliss, peace, inner happiness lit,

Soul experiences, like place delight, (1)

 

Like childhood to age place change,

River bank to park temples strange,

Quiet hours pass these time longer,

Fly past in a second, looks stronger, (2)

 

Dies out contempt, sorrows, look up,

Tomorrow, yet unknown, I brush up,

Preferred seclusion, not outer inner,

My preference, heart love, encounter, (3)

 

Unconditional love preferential tilt,

Life runs after for goods or rebuilt,

Spend a million, lose a thousand, sock,

Things matter mostly, prefers luck, (4)

 

Tagged as madness, foolishness, hit,

Betting human heart dream deceit,

To gain the attention of someone, drain,

Speechless why youth madly train, (5)

 

Aspects material subject abstracts,

Touch if heart, fail answer extracts,

They love, you love, love less admit,

Human efforts capture and deny ambit, (6)

 

Things attract, person attractive, top,

Words praised lack substance, hope,

Look confused, tried vainly, failed, lit,

Smiled inward at a soft corner neat, (7)

 

Grandma, her slipper, glass is secret,

Mom, her vanity bag bangles wicket,

Dad, his glass notebook pen silence,

Sister her ticket to cinema hall lens, (viii)

 

Younger brother, plenty of books, list,

Girlfriend now wife her times, tryst,

A bench at the corner of the park near,

She demanded preferred every hour, (9)

 

Discussion, summary nothing, smile,

Her perfume gossip rumors in style,

Confess, convey soft corners noticed,

Rich dividend utilized duly received, (10)

 

Pleased if Dad, Mom, grandma, sister,

Pleases my wife, a girlfriend forever,

Touched the soft corner got praises,

preference heart wishes eyebrows raise, (11)

 

Not goods money eateries delicacies,

Not dresses place costly accessories,

What touches me, sweet street children,

To celebrate my birthdates smitten, (12)

 

Distribute sweets to them, make fun,

Soft corner of my heart, orphan won,

Lord lives in each of their hope tears,

Weep their tears, bring smiles clear, (13)

 

Don't need money, asset friendship,

Occasions visit to temple courtship,

Look at the stone idol, hands folded, bow,

Failed to recollect time begged show, (14)

 

Prayed for unlucky children I meet,

Begged for the Lord's mercy, fate's defeat,

The soft corner in my heart still probing,

Befriend life, mysterious, if swinging. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Soft Corner

Themes: Life is without reason

Written: 6th December 2023, Cuttack

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COMPANION

 

COMPANION

 

Stumbles at the thought fascinate,

Exhale and inhale breath intimate,

Companion from birth to death lit,

Infinite energy actions live delight, (1)

 

Sit alone on a wooden bench quiet,

Nearby the park, fresh winds duet,

Trust completely slumber sounds,

Life at work mysterious rebounds, (2)

 

Failed to know Him when a child,

Liked him when wanted good wild,

Human needs I dreamed of a plethora of,

Society wants people to grab opera, (3)

 

Seen enough company car houses,

Treasury bank balance or spouse,

Inheritor children, future planned,

Old age hermitage shelter fanned, (4)

 

Companions, not spouse children,

Twilight years lonely God smitten,

Invisible when child invisible now,

Forgot throughout life visibly bow, (5)

 

Caught the better half, my companion,

Surrendered the heart, soul union,

Different physically, heart united,

Rhythmical vibration soul sighted, (6)

 

Lived for each other sacrificed top,

View husband-wife company hope,

We lived the day had children life,

Family lives we faced butter knife, (7)

 

Bread at one side, lacunas butter,

Companionship till age encounter,

We prosper, built home sweet cry,

Never expected, lo fulfilled life fry, (viii)

 

Companionship at dawn evening,

Frightened nights loans warning,

Children notice fees, expenses, fry,

Fled spread their wings life decry, (9)

 

Lonely palatial house room silent,

Company me, my, misses patient,

Searched her flesh and bone time,

Her womb, children came lifetime, (10)

 

The link of blood vibrated sad me,

Company mom children supreme,

The link invisible pulsate globally,

Motherly tie company abnormally, (11)

 

Surmise human life accompanies,

From breath to family, friends, allies,

Human birth, sojourn of the soul,

Companionship prerequisite goal, (12)

 

Teenage, youth, adulthood, aged,

Failed He persuades me, engaged,

Watches instantly, all my thought,

At every wrong deed I am caught, (13)

 

The repentance, warnings within,

Company Almighty love supreme,

Provide courage ideas indefinite,

 His gameplay to succeed excites, (14)

 

The season arrived, floral vanishing,

Lost our picture lonely cursing,

In a gentle whisper, my breath sings,

The companion was the Lord swing. ( !5)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Companion

Themes: The Lord as the companion

Written: 5th December 2023, Cuttack

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REPLICAS

 

REPLICAS

 

 

Searched throughout, serenity nature,

Searched, expansive the verdure,

Sock dreary desert cactus bloom,

Souvenir remote island yet moon, (1)

 

Savage lifeless terrain, time mourn,

Lone tree survived centuries of sun,

Satire human life polluted water,

Saboteurs living existence in water, (2)

 

Behold O human mountain slope,

Behold inhabitants cling to hope,

Extreme, hostile, inhospitable, island,

Life exists survival to a magic wand, (3)

 

Life exists for human beings, animals,

Life exists for plant birds to enthrall,

Stupefied, stood numb, bewitched,

Whispered wind believes switched, (4)

 

Sing phenomenon similar century,

The canyon thousand feet lit ivory,

Wind water swept rock sand build,

Replicas of the Lord, infinite shield, (5)

 

Minute leaf miniature network hail,

For a century, prepare exact details,

Flower, seasons, blossom the same,

Color fragrance size hides his game, (6)

 

Million grains, paddies, mango list,

Name a fruit flower leaf, size enlist,

How sweet replicas revelation hail,

Lifelong I searched defined prevail,(7)

 

In my blood cell, tiny tissue similar,

Grow matchless equals spectacular,

Lord creates replicas of stars, planets,

Universe lid His creation blankets,( viii)

 

One, millions, trillion infinite copies,

Everywhere the Lord exhibits precise,

Railway stations, bus stops, airports,

Why humans look like equal sports, (9)

 

Try their level best to differ, appear,

The color cloth hairstyle disappears,

Modernity to defy commonality fit,

Credence to culture custom culprit, (10)

 

Difference division creativity guises,

Fractured human race sad localizes,

Fratricidal war contrasts nature if sad,

Mesmerizing beauty replicas reward, (11)

 

The still air and tranquility, water reflect,

Replicate divine glory we complicate,

We doubt, suspicious, confused a lot,

Catastrophe in front replicas escort, (12)

 

Human, look at an ant hill, sanctuary lit,

Watch the granary forest in the spring light,

Delight, enchant, replica duly reflect,

The wind wears, water wears direct, (13)

 

The mountain wears river carries lit,

The sky, earth, ocean, melodious quit,

Quit before you instantly raise doubt,

Replicas indefinite hue divine scout, (14)

 

Percept perceive permit heart ambit,

Surrender sequel sequences gambit,

Everywhere I found Lord his images,

Replica, countless, picture envisages. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Replicas

Themes: Subtly images of the Lord the same

Written: 4th December 2023, Cuttack

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NAMEPLATE

 

NAMEPLATE

 

 

Think a lot about existence, savor,

Think a lot, departures devour,

Think a lot possesses position,

Think a lot, assets destruction, (1)

 

Think a lot about qualifications, titles,

Think a lot, scorn like belittles,

Sleeping on a hospital bed, think,

Life on a whisker whisper sink, (2)

 

Birth and a cry of happy tears lit,

Celebrate a name designated fit,

That bracketed, clan race root,

Fragile was the frame barefoot, (3)

 

Walk school college university,

Books in hand dress intensity,

Only the thought of achieving it,

Degree, certificate, name exist, (4)

 

The school knew the name college,

University degrees knowledge,

Hot tear trickled name known,

World underfoot retired frown, (5)

 

Sight of the cremation ground,

Floated before life cry resound,

The career, post, and offices remind,

Nameplate designation rewind, (6)

 

Hundreds of guest officers lot,

Chatted queued for time effort,

Mattered meetings proceeding,

copy circulated time exceeding, (7)

 

A signature, name designation,

Empowers order, obeys motion,

Simple a nameplate designation,

Enough to circulate order warn, (viii)

 

Where am I on a bed, name lost,

Retired in life hanged boot post,

Lost high position, status ivory,

Human life flashback, memory, (9)

 

Worn-out signboard wooden tilt,

In front of the house, lifetime enlist,

Alive thanked survived an accident,

God's grace life refasten resident, (10)

 

Glittering brass letters, a board,

Back home, cherish second odd,

I moved subconsciously out back,

Nameplate invites me to the track, (11)

 

The thin line between life and death,

Nameplate, adds Late at length,

My bedroom bed engrossed felt,

Lifetime a name ceremony dealt,(12)

 

Added degree, title position hell, 

Twilight Years nameplate derail,

Remember, generation after love,

Ever nameplate matches above, (13)

 

A unique unbiased conclusion crept in, 

Slept on my bed, prayed a lot, wept,

Fortunate million lives nameless,

Nameplate to namesake baseless, (14)

 

Neither recorded recognized stay,

I was praying Nameplate dismay,

It carries my identity, the world knows,

Minus a nameplate never to bow. (15) 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Nameplate

Themes: Name, degree, position, address 

Written: 3rd December 2023, Cuttack

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