NEVER KNOW

 

NEVER KNOW

 

Once a caterpillar on leaves,

Hibernate the future weaves,

Got colorful wings, freedom,

Attractive happy fear seldom, (1)

 

Fragrant flower, pollen share,

Nectar's short life is superb, hire,

Lo settle dusk darkness sad,

Attract fire from distant mad, (2)

 

Lost the life burned yet glow,

What life gains or loses shows,

Bow to the almighty his play,

He traps beautifully, let slay, (3)

 

The death itself is a cleanser,

Rebirth, you believe dreamer,

What material do humans want,

Pyre forgotten life seed plants, (4)

 

Wanted food get good food fit,

Wanted gold, get jewelry light,

Wanted, luxury, comfort, a lot,

Realized next life great effort, (5)

 

Evil, mind was cruel savage,

Seed fructified, sadly salvaged,

You like a life in hell smitten,

Your fate, not heaven written, (6)

 

Served loved all kindness lit,

Butterfly heavenly garden fit,

Life here lasts till the candle burns,

Wax melts wick to ash learn, (7)

 

Wildflower fragrant, at dawn,

Smiles under the sun yearn,

Never know what will happen,

After the dusk fell, let awaken. (viii)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Never Know

Themes: As you sow, so you reap

Written: 4th January 2024, Cuttack

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EPHEMERAL

 

EPHEMERAL

 

Youth age adolescence touched,

Life mischievous wild searched,

Stupefied, speechless stood to say,

Executive rock work lives sway, (1)

 

Female idols, curvy, voluptuous,

Dancing poses creeper onerous,

Lasting millennia dance, attract,

New world female sealed, in fact, (2)

 

Not temple dancer family wives,

Educated, equal to men, drives,

Drive locomotives, plane fighters,

Joining army, navy, to frontiers, (3)

 

Education, medicine or research,

Women attractive actors scorch,

How beautiful O actress smiled,

A nation across ages getting wild, (4)

 

Cinema, many stories, impressive,

Widescreen youth glued, believe,

Dream beautiful actress natural,

Ephemeral fairy hunt nocturnal, (5)

 

Repercussion every beautiful life,

A girl in the street replica strike,

College life love romances linked,

Degree interview career blinked, (6)

 

Forgotten love film actress older,

Teenage, romantic, not shoulder,

Learn this much every girl saw,

Beautiful angelic promises vow, (7)

 

That lifelong I shall love, stay lit,

Impossible short life, one delight,

My love, my beloved, better half,

Bitter cold I fail to share all scarf, (viii)

 

Transformation, each year seen,

I saw posters, attractive screens,

Temporary human life is short joy,

I can make happy my love enjoy, (9)

 

Respect in street bus rail flight,

I saw a few attractive idols slight,

Remind the ephemeral beauty,

Wrinkles appear couple in duty, (10)

 

New Year seven decades passed,

How many actresses, life splashed,

Dreamed of beautiful actors, female,

Enriched my romantic youth sail, (11)

 

Ephemeral, I understood, is a life,

A burning candle burns no strife,

Versatile, Lord's infinite mercy,

Year after year, I live to see wish, (12)

 

Host happy New Year greet a lot,

Missing a few, I liked time escort,

Stolen life attachment, I am a fool,

Ephemeral burns a candle mule, (13)

 

Beautiful girls in fantasy actresses,

No more they exist the same less,

Wiser, tearful, kneel before the Lord,

Ephemeral a candle lit, accord, (14)

 

Look at beautiful flowers floral,

Happy New Year, phenomenal,

Candle my life it flower blossom,

Ephemeral, elusive life is welcome. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of the Poem: Ephemeral

Themes: highlights life impermanent yet wild

Written: 1st January 2024, Cuttack

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STEALTH

 

STEALTH

 

 

Confess, convey, where ever, stay,

You ruled my heart, boldly I say,

Not ashamed, dear, we were one,

Loved each other dream began, (1)

 

Future adolescence touched lit,

Sensation wavering night light,

Moonless full moon dreamers,

Dawn destroyed dreams tears, (2)

 

Faded the scenes, sequel miss,

Our college campus park kiss,

It was an intimacy in understanding life,

Marriage, job, family, links strife, (3)

 

Never could think impossible,

Our love the marriage is simple,

Today, I have my family settled,

Fewer thoughts love is bristled, (4)

 

How many nights have you cried, say,

Got mute, deaf, dumb, feel away,

I was a thorn in your life twig,

Removed mercilessly crushed fig, (5)

 

Class, dear class, the glass wall says,

We saw each other met dismay,

Fewer can society allow grants,

Parents rejected a reminiscent, (6)

 

Your father joked with me a lot,

Inquire about bungalow escort,

Showed me rows of cars, bikes,

Described long list of costly likes, (7)

 

Pointed at family a hollowness,

Love conjugal life less impressive,

What matters the most lecture,

I left your home perfectly sure, (viii)

 

Poverty and love wall divided,

Classless woman wins United,

The vermilion sacred thread lit,

Bangles colored colorless sight, (9)

 

Home, sweet home, heavenly lit,

A husband and his wife struggle to fight,

Confess today I acted foolishly,

Married in our relationship quickly, (10)

 

Sudden was the news you left,

Traveled abroad life single felt,

Twilight years confess my guilt,

You visit in my dream due tilt, (11)

 

Infinite questions, arguments,

Keep silent eyes down laments,

Vanishes your visits yet stealth,

Reminisce encounters, wealth, (12)

 

Never I can forget not can visit,

Fewer I dare to think and write,

Keep intact my love for you live,

Till me last breath you, I believe, (13)

 

You give life to me felt cowered,

Your devotion and dedication showered,

The truth is paradoxically, true hit,

At different continents less meet, (14)

 

Sleep dreams stealth a presence,

Everlasting, our love still intense,

In stealth, we touched sensation,

Fag end-of-life love, a revelation. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Stealth

Themes: Reminisce of the first love

Written: 30th December 2023, Cuttack

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FAMILY PEDIGREE

 

FAMILY PEDIGREE

 

A sequel to family, migrated mesmeric,

A thousand miles sailed serfs, historic,

Island, isolated sugarcane crop fields,

Forefathers toiled, animal lives, yields, (1)

 

Forgotten past, a few centuries passed,

Liberated from serfdom a time lashed,

The business community grew gradually,

Spices, turmeric, dry chilly basically, (2)

 

Tamarind, mango fruits, variety prefer,

Family market local goods lives differ,

Never forgotten the distant land left,

The most ancient civilization life felt, (3)

 

Under the rule of foreigners, exploited,

Forefathers, serfs, freedoms violated,

Today, educated, visiting ancient a land,

With family, children ask or demand, (4)

 

Not asking citizenship, rehabilitation,

Amazed, view the ancient civilization,

The temples, monuments, or palaces,

Turmeric, tamarinds, mangos, spices, (5)

 

Sweet and sour food vegetarian live,

Enjoying freedom democracy thrive,

Visited villages, peasants resembled,

Once upon a time, forced, traveled, (6)

 

Found past family pedigree exists,

Live sacred to me supreme persist,

Landless village laborers cultivated,

Landlord owned lands crops looted, (7)

 

Family pedigree I saw transformed,

Indian peasants, own land prospered,

Markets like our family group now,

They education gadget travel show, (viii)

 

Still sell a few turmeric, tamarind,

Mango, guava, jackfruit, remind,

Village products crop many links,

The ancestor's land a future winks, (9)

 

I told my children, Indian farmers,

Family pedigree sailed to harbors,

Settled in far islands knew a past,

Our festival custom practices last, (10)

 

Time century ago separated, we all,

But studying our past relations hail,

That is a memorable visit to India,

Childhood dream pedigree phobia, (11)

 

I must see how is farmer present,

Now, there is no sadness, resentment,

Most prosperous, free, wealthy farmers,

Owner of his land, his fate master, (12)

 

Back to our island nation writing,

Family sale species grocery fitting,

Backyard, a tamarind tree stands,

Sour past sweet mango demands, (12)

 

Family pedigree farmhouse fame,

Fly over the globe product name,

Product name stamp pedigree fit,

Out title, we came from India neat, (13)

 

Title link with state district place,

Who kept the title pedigree grace,

Noted in my diary visit the land,

Tearful tribute to past no demand. (15)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Family Pedigree

Themes: Indian farmers once migrated

Written: 29th December 2023, Cuttack

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