PITTANCE

 

PITTANCE

 

 

Beat your chest, boast proudly,

Towering reputation richness,

Life bestowed wealth supremacy,

Respect people in words cowed,

Fearful of brute power submit,

Accept order, dare not to challenge,

Monopoly society witnesses clueless,

Rare to complain force succumbs,

Concrete towers countless vehicles,

Business astronomical spiral rise,

Thousand strong workers throng,

Hard work compensated meagerly,

Booted against demand law mute,

The economy highlights these faces,

Shining boot, polished behavior,

The suite tie clip diamond jaded,

Fragrant presence words are polite,

Calmly proclaim stern eyes a fact,

The rule economy of a country,

Exploit a million lives fully secured,

Exploit landmass ores rich and rare,

Exploit green forest water bodies,

Exploit leaders run elections by proxy,

Money plays, voters hunger and lust,

Look at these glass towers glazing,

Look at the asphalt roads vehicles,

Look at officials covering the globe,

Look at the milling crowd of office-goers,

Becoming rich just one family best,

Vast subjects deliver goods on time,

Look at rustic life in slum suburban cities,

Look at children under-nourished,

Sunken eyes still shinning unaware,

Smiling at diseases, malnutrition,

Poor parents lack money, sad children,

Deprived of schools, playful, pity,

Dirty torn dress crumple burly hair,

Little they demand far from the study,

Lord's flowers, once born, will wither,

Lord has deserted the place forgotten,

Lord, awestruck at merry-making too,

Another side of the streets stays the city,

Paranoid civilized society thinks affluent,

Every modern gadget asset, furniture,

Plenty of bank balance high-rise flats,

Children at school, educated at skill,

Fit to be into the labor force like parents,

work day and night yearlong diligent,

Most unlucky people barely realize,

Lost private life, love, and care a lot,

Lost children their fun altogether,

Lost family life, home celebrations,

Lost picnic, travel to sites, pilgrims,

Lost the time for vacation, recluse,

Lost wonderful nature, its splendor,

Work with currency under feet well,

Stolen their life unaware tear swell,

Children with little link to their parents fled,

Spread their wings far off nesting too,

Crashing family bond relationships,

Money, money, and money courtship,

God left from the heart of these men,

I stood at the crossroad perplexed,

Two worlds starkly different, Godless,

Civilization needs realization critical,

Pittance Lord's mercy for deprived,

A pittance for the paranoid urban creature,

Pittance Lord's grace for budding flowers,

One is a fallen flower other turns robot,

Sat on a roadside bench at remorse,

When human seeks nature, simple life,

Truly education across all ages, gender,

Pittance not in dictionary bliss exist,

Bountiful, beautiful, nature and Earth,

Life is happy, joyous, wise, and bestowed.

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Pittance

Themes: Pittance zeroed life midst of nature

Written: 27th June 2023, Cuttack

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WARMTH

 

WARMTH

 

Look at the river of life circumvent,

Virtue flowing downward shifted,

Avoids path in front of an obstacle,

Changing directions, blocking,

Cracked rocks changed to sand,

Life passed unable to understand,

Stood at the confluence, scrutinizing,

Rivers meet and unite the lives of millions,

Socked rivers chose sides separate,

Noticed muddy water never mingles,

Bluewater clean displays serenity,

Miles life of people, keep separated,

The heart loves rose plenty intoxicated,

Avoid cactus blooms spreads to color,

Beauty river of life defines different,

Shining skin black skin attractive,

Lifestream moves towards fair skin,

Customs practices society exhibits,

Divided river of life into arteries a lot,

Prefer to be separate streams move,

Sock human mind thoughts groove,

Checked milling crowd flowing nicely,

Upper-class middle and lower slightly,

Invisible are separations unorthodox,

Repulsive to sections guided coldness,

The country feels a mighty river of life flows,

Caste, creed, religion, status rainbows,

Gender bios fair sex depressingly timid,

The invisible barricade controls cruelly,

Life is free of air or water phenomenally,

Homogenous the feature warmth tally,

Air current gets stronger wind blows,

Streams united turns into a mighty river,

The cohesion bonhomie fraternity link,

Warmth is paradoxical ship never sinks,

The steam shining proof of unity screams,

Moves a ship an ocean-to-ocean dream,

Hypnotize sharing attitude sympathy,

Swirling waters emblem life churning,

Whirlpool symbolizes revolution significantly,

The warmth between hearts is less but minds,

Unite thought to practice beautifully,

Merge custom practices stream to river,

Stand on the side of the grand road,

Million people mixed warmth visible,

Cheering wildly, celebrate their nation,

United to survive secured realized,

As a consequence of rive changing path,

Avoiding the nature of motion faces rock,

Blocked peace and progress totally,

Education warns life warmth automatically,

Tearfully witness people of all ages,

No restriction for gender work united,

No wall was erected for sections of society,

Free will, freedom of voice, right equal,

The mighty river of life moving fast,

Warmth increasing cohesiveness root,

Singing and dancing united spirits fuelled,

Million strong across the country swelled,

Charged atmosphere electric distinct clarity,

Melted dimensions of factions, divisions,

Displays the warmth of humanity moving,

Unique occasion message to the future. 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Warmth

Themes: Minds meet, warms up unity

Written: 26th June 2023, Cuttack

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BESEECH

 BESEECH

 

Disturbed, wake up by now alerted,

Who rings a bell in the dead of night,

The temple nearby has a bell hanging,

Pervades the chimes incessant ringing,

Submerged in thoughts analyzed,

Why do humans beg for mercy, a stone idol,

Breaks a dawn crowds gather every day,

Scented sticks, oil lamps lit permeate,

Vibrant divine feeling alive trust swell,

Aspirations countless family life dwell,

Children to educate succeed efficiently,

Parents, tearful pleadings tell murmur,

Young girl with flower fruit sweets,

Oil lamps scented sticks to offer piously,

Her tender heart believes Lord living,

Idol listens to her askance and fulfills,

Lord, give me a handsome, decent man,

Wealthy, educated, kind, and loving,

His family will be compassionate too,

Grace her Lord for such a wedding nicely,

The octagenarian is crying, bitterly gasping,

Uncontrolled his pain, his son missing,

No information alien land helpless,

Begging mercy for his son to return intact,

Folded hands standing for hours,

Sobbing the sight infecting others,

Here is another woman middle age,

Banging her head on the steps hard,

Why Lord, you have stolen my husband,

Not too aged, only earning member,

Her angry look at the idol disturbing,

Shouting loudly, why you are cruel,

How I shall feed three children tell me,

Forced to live to keep my kids,

Got unconscious people attending,

No reaction of the Lord, Idol mute,

On many occasions, I cried before Him,

How many humans trust you, Lord,

Love immensely hope protection,

Surprised, sad news shatters them,

Still, pray for mercy worship in life,

Every stratum of human life confides,

Infinite human desire heart passionate,

No records of how many were fulfilled,

Seen temple agog with ceremony,

Happy occasion festivals jubilation,

Seen smiling faces, laughter, dancing,

People believe Lord listens to functions,

God knows impassionate or interested,

His metallic eyes are fixed fewer winks,

Whether human life is his play, he knows,

Seen lives intoxicated with devotion,

Sing and dance day-long feasting,

Lord is with us and helps us believe,

Wake up alerted enough and anxious,

The bell was ringing resounding bedroom,

Went to the nearby temple and found out,

The accident happened, a few were killed,

Only son of a man wounded critically,

He was ringing the bell of the temple,

Let Lord hear him beseech his son's life,

His faith was far greater than the divine.  

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Beseech

Themes: Pleading to Lord links lives

Written: 25th June 2023, Cuttack

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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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