CREDENCE

 

CREDENCE

 

I was listening to your stories,

Opened the heart, everything in detail,

The heart is the chamber that stores,

Keeps everything well immaculately,

Those can overwhelm, chamber open,

Frequented by the mind promotes thoughts,

Excites these memories reality visible,

Lives the spirit tortured gains faith,

Trust, well, the dawn will change a life,

The unexpected result that shatters,

Cause for the collapse of dream castles,

Far worse, reality crumbled to dust,

This life is a miracle to survive and sprout,

When presumed a demise, missing,

Out of oblivion returns alive often,

Heart stores memories forgotten freeze,

Astonishment lurks in eyes spellbound,

How come, impossible, you have come,

Live, hard to reject the ghost for you,

Mind searched excitedly, heat melts,

Memories flash again, and life is rebuilt!

The truth is that is born must die surely,

No question of a miracle ever life return,

Never sprouts a pair of green leaves,

From a charred wood in water and light,

Destines to disintegrate life experiences,

Death, departure, separation, or is lost,

Painful intolerable heart stores dutifully,

The dark chamber prevents light,

Locked well thought can never assess,

Listened to surprising explanations,

Elaborated unfortunate life tolerated,

A bowl of smelling rice, salt his living,

Thatched roof of straws decayed open,

Use to see the moon and sun in the room,

Still accommodated life rain percolates,

Reality life is not a bed of roses,

No television, car, or furniture is costly,

Convinced the rebellious heart,

Not to grumble frustrated enough,

Accepts the pain of lacking a modern life,

Fumes at the wretched life hateful,

God deprives good health attractive,

Better job affluence materializes,

Good food, dresses, assets, and goods,

An illiterate woman attached parasite,

All in life wanted a son failed miserably,

My avalanche of patience busts,

Covered like advancing snows quickly,

Stop those hallucinations forthwith,

Establish credence on your ground,

Everything is false contempt unfounded,

His angrily outburst is worth watching,

Credence for the heart, suspect,

Foolish, egoist, and ignorant,

You have a thatched-roof cottage,

There is a street life, destitute, singing,

Had food, there are hundred hungry,

Not a morsel for a few days dying,

You moan for appealing figure dresses,

Gadgets that proudly can be displayed,

There is a handicapped, blind, deaf exists,

A mute still aspiring for life accepts,

There is a woman childless you have one,

The parasite you mean help you,

When you are sick, her glass of water,

That can save you, but know,

Credence your heart says is a trickster,

I quit suddenly and never looked back.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Credence

Themes: Heart on false ground

Date: 9th December 2022, Cuttack

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PLETHORA

 

PLETHORA

 

 

Here is a family continental apart,

Flourished for two generations settled,

Talented members, doctors, engineers,

The family of each individual member grew,

Settle in nearby and distant cities,

Keep communication, unites one yearly,

Remember, root an ancient land,

Forefathers migrated for job menial,

Prospered, got free, cherished the soil,

Loved the adopted country acquainted,

The air, water, landscapes  chained,

The alien culture, language, lifestyle,

Went into the blood domicile stories,

Forgotten the land that belongs to them,

Theirs exist a small village nameless,

Obscurity poetic unbelievably paradise,

Living an idealistic woman iconic,

Approaching a century, still in fine shape,

Remember everything, children,

Comfortable in a beautiful mansion,

Attendants, the doctor serves

Lives with a grandkid in love and care,

Treated as a goddess worshipped,

Contacts her children overseas,

Another group of children lives in Europe,

Family of writers, architects, business,

Wealthy affluent a few generations,

Branched out to neighboring countries,

Settled with children got nationality,

European by now linked to her,

Never saw her in person, heard a lot,

Heard about the paradise the abode,

One son traveled to Africa, is living there,

Five sons and three daughters grew up,

Got married, have families business,

Gems  export hospital chain lifeline,

Flourished in decades, got nationality,

Citizens of these countries, globetrotters,

The octogenarian lady has a son,

Stays in her country in a city settled,

Educationist, his six sons, professors,

Two are with their father rest migrated,

Their families are established,

Rarely ever visit the grandmother,

Hundreds of invitations from the world over,

She is magnanimous, politely refuses,

 Keeps track of hundreds of families,

Their children keep in contact, surprised,

Far off from their land, there is a home,

An ancient land, an unknown village,

The beauty of nature, from the book, is stark,

Sparsely populated village life is serene,

Spellbound in their ancestral language,

The culture, dresses, customs, and fantasy,

Festivals inspiring Holi, Diwali, Dussehra,

The folk dance tune drum flute is thrilling,

Awakened a lot of curious links with the lady,

Her picture is in every family home,

Kids look for questions imprinted on their eyes,

Pilgrimage just started now and then,

Circulated picture, video, recording,

World over circulated instantly liked,

You are our relative blood elation,

The mainland linked on lips to continents,

Her children, grandkids, great grand ones,

Nearing a few hundred think relatives,

The astonishing aspect, the title stays the same,

Living on the planet virtually strangers,

On the occasion of her hundredth birthday,

International visitors homing pointed,

The festive atmosphere from the news hidden,

Dense forest hilled circled the village,

Each visitor looks other hypnotized,

You are in Europe, Africa, and America!

Oh my God, ancestral blood links,

The plethora is disbelieving,

The reality is incredible, Ma.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Plethora

Theme: Expanding blood links

Date: 7th December 2022, Cuttack

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SIGNAL

 

SIGNAL

 

Saves life, red signal warns brightly,

Behind the wheel brakes the car,

Watch alert red light glows,

Chose risk your life moving ahead,

Loves soul separate for my activity,

Immune to my rabid attractions,

Impassionate toward acute desire,

Blind to the intense lust harbors,

The mind plays a game, lifelong naughty,

Such infinitesimal urge hidden exists,

Arouses mind trickster alluding, wicked,

Contemplated such moments love,

Life, if not, faces a square confused,

Proceed forward straight red to rest,

Glowing green light safe drive clear,

Bewilder often soul goads move forward,

Never says, silent for left or the right,

Clashed with heavy vehicles, rock,

Fell into gorge destroyed and burnt,

Rub my forehead lost in my thought,

Self deeds if not bring to the debacle,

Inver vision indicates red light warns,

Intrusive mind captures heart cruel,

Pushes to the brink, no opportunity,

Disaster happen suddenly invited,

Like numerous accidents happen,

Crossing signal red light warning,

Human life is similar path warns,

Confusion in the foreseeable future,

Bifurcate solution trifurcate mind,

The square perplexes state thinks,

Write my life these squares came,

Education career retirement faced,

Where to move left or right or ahead,

Not possible to back out were options,

Left was active life pleasure-seeking,

Leisure comfort luxury unlimited,

Mock the burnt mantle and proceed,

Red light is glazing silent aware of,

The gas mantle will fall off consequently,

Life path ends ultimately sorrowful,

Last moment realize duties, incomplete,

An accident takes life in a split second,

Never life get aware of the end coming,

Here dying moments pain tenfold,

Repentance gives no scope to return,

Forward green light shows equanimity,

End the in-proximity amber light,

Fears mind tries to flee, red light shows,

Go ahead O' wise twilight green light,

The soul is deathless, a butterfly in the noon,

By dawn, sight is fallen, another in wings,

The world is intoxicant, colorful is blossom,

Wild by now lost eluded savor life,

This path body quietly calms the mind,

Serenity, thoughts acquire sings master,

Green is safe, serene, divine pleasure,

Feel this motion rhythmic yet eternity,

A straight line expansive, beginning or end,

None can guess this line green signals,

Move right, amber light, pray, and pray,

Read about him, your experience sing,

Write his glories observed astonished,

Proceed slowly after the sinking sun, think,

Think of the master you accomplished,

Pray to be forgiven for wrongdoings,

Ask nothing as only his wish to play,

A toy in his hand falsely believed you,

I, me, mine all melts ether man fights,

Cry before him, realized master loves,

Infinite compassion his child forgives,

Shows the green light to the soul wings,

Gets freedom at liberty to merge,

With eternal luminescence in space!

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Signal

Theme: signal indicates in the path of life

Date 6th December 2022, Cuttack

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VENERABLE

 

VENERABLE

 

The community feels fortunate to have him,

Extraordinary achievement is a doctor,

Meticulously moves surgical knife blade,

Smoothly breaths the doctor, still nerve,

Stands for hours, spine bending the same,

Moved not in positions attention focused,

Bright light electric bulb lamp direct,

Flooding light over open stomach ribs,

Blood covers plastic gloves he cleans,

A knife moves delicately ultra cautiously,

Unwanted flesh and tissue are taken out,

The thread with needle sutures promptly,

A senseless, still body lies on a table,

Oxygen mask, saline, medicine dripping,

Checks the gadget of a scanner in lines,

Deciphers watchful eyes, attentive,

Waits finally cleaned the body inert,

Stay motionless, unconscious long,

Till the anesthesia exist,

Sometimes after a pinch, it responds,

The room, with aprons blood splattered,

A nurse and medic present obey orders,

The doctor left in haste, the wee hours,

The whole night six hours, the table was busy,

The heart and fingers eyes worked,

His books of knowledge, skill added,

The operation that saves thousand,

Doctor visits everyday watch smiles,

Satisfied he defeats straight line,

The monitors stay wavy, beating links,

Synchronized, it is a symphony of life,

His divine hand provided a rebirth,

So many male females on the table,

Linked each to a separate world,

Dying patient tearful husband, wife,

Crying children, parents, neighbors,

Returns happiness to their lives,

The doctor sutured dissipating hopes,

Hopes to renew lives unspoken,

Emotive aspects speechless spellbound,

Few price doctor takes the cost of a life?

The aspect I have seen Him,

Banished him life comforts, fame, gold,

Less wished the applause decided,

There is another world in this world,

Tribal, rural hinterland cut off totally,

From the facility of hospital doctors,

There moans a pregnant woman,

Complicated state emergency dying,

Watching clueless family waits for death,

No oxygen, electricity, medicines,

A child fell from a tree and injured his head,

An octogenarian with fever and acute pain,

The serenity of life is pure, innocent, accepted,

Surprisingly never complain about lacking,

Socked wide-eyed, a doctor adopted,

The jungle mountain circled,

Pristine river flowing blue water shiny,

Verdure is unbelievably hypnotizing,

Voluntary opened a brick clinic,

Solar panels ample electricity equipment,

Sufficient medicine operation room,

Consulting annex room has few beds,

No one to assist, a staff nurse,

Living there for months saved hundreds,

Village after village thinks of him as God,

Worships the venerable one unique,

I read the news, the community knows,

Know the public disbelieves venerable!  

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Venerable

Theme: a doctor serves rustic life

Date: 5th December 2022, Cuttack

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AFRAID

 

AFRAID

 

Love my world enormously happy,

The infinite thrill overwhelmed me,

Curious once being a chick looking at,

Nest, I never built but safe and secure,

Found inviter godly to the abode of humans,

Learned profusely love and care pristine,

Abundant the fountain of love discovered,

Thanked life nourished well and grew,

The infinite concern for illness alerts,

A pair of hearts shared defeat sickness,

A small amount of happiness I exhibit,

Parents' awful warmth permeates intensely,

The small lane blind end opens to town,

Opportunities came flooded hopes,

Never aspired mansions sprawling gardens,

Aristocracy to acquire falls obscurity,

This was the inspiration of poor parents,

Taught to be honest, sympathetic, loving,

Remember, today stands alone here,

In the dead of night, the town fell asleep,

Torturous, piercing silent night ghostly,

Stands in front of our home once I grew up,

Vacant and locked for years hunting,

Remember forgot my parents,

Dreams of limitless wealth women,

Elegant attractive induced lusty heart,

Move far continent the divide faced,

Pay for every handshake, kiss, or wine,

Earn work diehard addict dream,

This is a dreamland where to achieve,

Success is to annihilate wished others,

Cruel yet smiles envy sprouting buds,

Tag charismatic enigma overpowering,

Surgical removal of opponents in joy,

I am he musk permeates to hypnotize,

Tomorrow is the big challenge stolen,

Know that people search for heroes only,

Forget abysmally heartless ignore,

To fight is right kill free will bedevil,

Devil not for human life but to exploit,

Thoughts of emotions swept past,

Like a cine motion incessant display,

Ah accomplished rich and famous,

I knew father was sick, moneyless,

Never he communicated, lack of money,

Lack of treatment Mom intimated,

I read her letters, felt sad, forgot,

Overwhelmed with luxury pleasure in life,

Never could imagine Mom was alone,

Suffering due to the same reason, poverty,

In the last letter knew she was ill, bedridden,

Job blocked totally business merciless,

Cannot leave million to lose in a day,

The greed waylaid mischievously felt right,

The Community sent a letter to sell the house,

Found this lane is same, lamp post exists,

Opened the lock, empty parents' album,

Wall frames dust-covered mushroomed,

My parent's bedroom was intact, empty,

The hollowness gave an acute-pain, in me,

Life passed, auburn hairs ripped white,

The pink aura bright skin is wrinkled,

Now realizes it is past midnight for life,

The dawn will break soul will spread wings,

Fly far off then away was my flight,

Never look back at the loved frame,

I stood in front of the home a ghost,

The silhouette was sill now less afraid! 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Afraid, Fiction

Theme: Not afraid the inevitable knew

Date: 3rd December 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

TAINTED

 

TAINTED

 

 

Impulsive human instinct acts,

An uncontrolled mind is rebellious,

Capitulates heart instantly willingly,

Life never grumbles, dares limits,

Limit is a myth, paranoid views,

Human life is precious, born to love,

Love, self-nature, innocent, decent,

Demands the community to accept,

Less prefers heart criticism  react,

Love only matters the heart imitates,

Tell frankly observed love undiluted,

The least polluted elixir is succulent,

The face to tidbits, eyes, nose, lips,

Females' hair long, to the knees, black,

Simple eye bows, accent, voice,

Word can melt heart seeks soul,

Minute the gait, gesture, demeanor,

Catches imagination, the mind trapped,

A volume of a novel to describe,

Insufficient how love is defined,

Instantly catch fire, unconscious,

Burn heart feels a missing presence,

Runs life impatiently to associate,

Fails to fathom custom prejudice,

Refuse to accept rules knows life,

Transient nature life falters loses,

This happened to my girlfriend,

High society, family if upper caste,

Fair-complexioned, intelligent, tall,

Matching my height in merit,

Rest, I missed her height in class,

Born poor caste differs between families,

A year after success  in recruitment,

The training period for administration,

We liked each other and grew intimacy,

Before joining the service separating,

Packing our luggage, catching a flight,

The direction of our destination home,

Opposite directions distinguished,

Language, state, custom, different,

Families unfamiliar, strange situations,

It dawned upon both similar feelings,

What parents will say when to listen,

How to treat the proposal sealed,

Thinking I knew backgrounds,

Widely differing, require strong effort,

The girlfriend's parent educated understood,

Evaluated positively on merit nature,

My family was illiterate, chained to caste,

Objected to when heard my decision,

Marrying in  the upper caste is not permitted,

Possibility of being outcaste foreseen,

A few days at home churned my heart,

Love never differentiates caste color,

Affect less class and status,

I left home, didn't inform my parents,

We got married in the court, joined services,

Fortunately, placed in one city,

The fact her parents got the information,

My family rejected to give consent,

They were silent, knew the caste system,

Underlined our senior officer status,

A few years later, our child grew,

Demanded to meet grandfather,

Loved meeting the grandmother,

We were in a fix, decided to visit,

Met parents later, at my home,

Stayed for a few days the matter settled,

Returned to our working place, both,

Received a letter, parents outcast,

Community banned reception meetings,

Denied water, fire, social custom,

Our love, a red rose treated tainted.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Tainted

Theme: Inter-caste marriage

Date: 3rd December 2022, Cuttack

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