REMINISCENT

 

REMINISCENT

 

 

A teen got aware of spirit vibrant,

Flows the river near the home deep forest,

Cornfields, golden a cave with bats,

Tiger prowls smelly shiver spine in rocks,

School a big field in the front forest behind,

The narrow road is straight with mango trees,

Big plot of boundary wall high our home,

Fear hunt in evening jackals howl,

A village of natives obscures teenage,

The canvas lives thrilled a running heart,

Wild in infinite joy in bush animals at bay, (a)

 

The canvas scrolled to the beach,

Blue sea, a golden beach waves crest in ego,

A moment crashes into sea surrender,

Wild heart ran amok in sand from school,

Escape classes get lost in golden beach,

Dilapidated houses a tiny river stream, fish,

Merges in the sea, casuarinas forest nearby,

Time sweeps, reminiscent picturesque boyhood,

A paradise at the seashore lonely roar of the sea,

The shrill wind in nearby forest dry wood creak, (b)

 

The school college features nascent,

Life matured through books, exams,

The famous temple festivals spread amity,

Stream pilgrims offer devotion,

Small the town left a day Sun rises in the east,

Life as asphalt road built in hope at river dam,

The confluence of energy PowerStation earth-dam,

College of Engineering life metamorphic differed,

An intricate, complex world followed in life,

Family life and career and clipped education, (c)

 

Decades of busiest life saw people countryside,

Traveled the length and breadth of the land,

Flight passionate the projects meeting people,

Work intensive work was over suddenly,

Packed personal content farewell memorable,

Left time, alone late at night, at the roadside,

The last bus that picked me remember,

 Failed to trace a tear, window side,

Cool air swept past O spirit time recoiled, (d)

 

Roll back, not possibly look to the future,

Decades over tagged to home in meditation,

Impact an accident injury at head took years,

Saw life slow natural pattern eventless,

Dreams pale, crimson years nostalgic past,

Walk in the morning gust of fresh air enlivens,

Riverfront Road sweet home, wonderful family,

Mother with me, father departed years ago,,

Son, his wife left, busy in life, down the floor,

Wife so caring with pills medicine in time, (e)

 

Grew in passion in quest of divine four decades,

Fund of the banks of river Ganga,

Himalayan trips etched deep and lasting,

Reminisces, overwhelm the years in motion,

Confluence to complete the final journey,

Touch a silver line of seven decades in the realm,

Look far off past as reel rolling regal forward,

Life will kiss tomorrow at dawn, crimson bright,

Walk on the riverfront with my wife in the morn,

The reminiscence will be a sight…. (f)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Reminiscent

Themes: Life story self ink

Shared: 21st August 2023, Cuttack

Note: Senior Citizen Day

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VIRULENT

 

VIRULENT

 

 

Awaken the heart well influence,

Paradise on Earth allures intense,

The verdures and landscape song,

Drunken mind captive lifelong, (1)

 

The picturesque river, mountain,

Kissing horizons valleys fountain,

Rural farmlands, granaries swell,

Bountiful soil sacred patriot hail, (2)

 

Realized a billion soul hunger met,

Prosperity significant living great,

Affluent, poverty line uplifted best,

Growing population happy attest, (3)

 

Mud houses or paddy straw roofs,

Concrete towers, highways proofs,

Touching skyline glass tower tall,

Reflect brilliant sunlight enthrall, (4)

 

Once lived poor lives yet suffered,

A curse for human poverty offered,

Sickness, illiteracy, savage state,

Jobless, landless, homeless, waste, (5)

 

Cries vibrated silent night horror,

The untimely death of a child or mother,

Life sunken, shrunken eyes, blank,

Yester years voter promise prank, (6)

 

List food, house, cloth, employment,

Election date over lo temperament,

Forgotten promise exploiting country,

Democracy crippled sign no entry, (7)

 

Changed miraculously city, village,

Prosperous, joyous, peaceful craze,

Disbelieve, how possibly changed,

Rejected by people, plot, avenged, (viii)

 

Revenge in heart, spitting venom,

Toxic worm instilled time inform,

Fratricidal war engineered, angry,

Lost power, lost favor, vote, hungry, (9)

 

Burning streets looted shops, sadly,

Cruelty inhabits life, acting madly,

Dividing yet united as never before,

Cohesion, fraternity pricks torture, (10)

 

Mandates country has seen twice,

Strengthened hard work, sacrifice,

Rejected fraudsters replace honest,

Country progress, selfless behest, (11)

 

One nation, one rule, one boundary,

Dismantle bulldozed walls cursory,

Underworld trampled if gun silent,

Safety and security stable resilient, (12)

 

The growing strength, womanhood,

Astonishing growth life withstood,

Skilled battle-ready fighter pilots,

Female portrait educated ballots, (13)

 

President, misters, leader, female,

Harmonistic male chauvinism fail,

The golden period erased slavery,

Centuries of colonial rule savagery, (14)

 

Millennium invaders looted, burned,

Ancient past charred, liberty earned,

Still lurks in mind treason virulent,

Shadowy figures pen in guise, silent, (15)

 

The country still fears dark blind alleys,

Enemies wait to attack virulent parleys. (16)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Virulent

Themes: Fifth columnist viral lurks

Written: 20th August 2023, Cuttack

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VENERABLE

 

VENERABLE

 

 

Confess an inglorious past now,

Reluctant to open his heart vow,

Knows the world around bright,

Education gave him an insight, (1)

 

Underneath darkness existence, 

His cursed teenage hurt intense,

Poverty less self-chosen happens,

Sorrows behind hunger sharpen, (2)

 

Assume razor-sharp knife thirst,

Reject to drink water, hunt past,

Thirsts were lost parent street child,

Never could know his past wild, (3)

 

Alas, parents forgot him on the street,

Collected by city authority greet,

Feed him well-offered clothes, love,

His life had no identity less solve, (4)

 

Studied well free schooling dwell,

Merit the gift of a cruel fate hail,

Succeeded in career scholarship,

Charity from senior person leap, (5)

 

The gown gold medal university,

Called this person uncle sanity,

Prompting him to study higher,

Praised the performance assure, (6)

 

Money no concern uncle provide,

His top post, police officer pride,

Never asked for his gratitude money,

Uncle loved him, distance funny, (7)

 

Fewer uncles accept credits, assure,

He acted as an umbrella secure,

Pointedly advised for a marriage,

He remembered teenage mirage, (viii)

 

Sobbed not few tears, he smiled,

God stole his parent's lives mild,

The orphanage, then uncle restored,

Dreams he less dared procured, (9)

 

No relatives, father, mother, sis,

No brother lo uncle prefers to kiss,

Never told, like his son, openly,

His fatherly protection solemnly, (10)

 

Confess the inglorious past well,

Left on a street, today honor fuel,

The ambit of emotion ruptured duet,

His wife, children, and life promulgate, (11)

 

God is not fate merciless, beacon,

Time heals wounds, life reckon,

Discover humanity exists visible,

Cruelty, poverty, illiteracy simple, (12)

 

Guesses soul search, frequent,

Where are his parents, relevant,

Pray against his raw wound little,

May Lord help him trace belittle, (13)

 

Their blood flows in his vein raw,

Found his mother's embrace, saw,

Guess his mother, undone indeed,

Must be crying a lot curse deed, (14)

 

Father, if ashamed, less forgiven,

Whether he searched him given,

A police officer has seen a couple,

Poverty social restriction topple, (15)

 

Inter-caste, interfaith conflicts,

The child before a marriage inflicts,

Unemployment insolvency hunt,

Unwanted child shameful taunt, (16)

 

His police officer training, strong,

Forgave his parents, deeds wrong,

No more pittance askance love,

Search his venerable link resolve. (17)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Venerable

Themes: Precious parents

Written: 19th August 2023, Cuttack

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HEARTH

 

HEARTH

 

 

Eulogize the poor man's hearth,

Incomparable, won eons, earth,

Time changes everything cruelly,

Erase spectacularly extensively, (1)

 

Disappear, nothing permanent,

Inventions appear as instruments,

Flooded home craze modernity,

Hearth inconspicuous a reality, (2)

 

Firewood earthen hearth duet,

Stood millennia boiling create,

Added earthen pots sun-baked,

Are relevant to kitchen racked (3)

 

Home food rice dal vegetable fry,

Villages procure from fields rely on,

The river bends beside a village,

Variety of fish turns curry craze, (4)

 

Roasted potato and vegetables,

Charcoal burns tastes, enables,

The pillowing smoke intoxicates,

Spreading aroma spices, detects, (5)

 

Cow in the backyard, life remember,

The oven was the earthen hearth, user,

Cheese, butter, ghee, and cakes,

Milk home produced, makes, (6)

 

It was seven decades ago to wait,

Still in a village home perfect,

The sweet taste is unique,

Lingered still today feel piqué, (7)

 

The village produces oils varieties, 

Pure little adulterated facilities,

Simple folks lack amenities,

Unthinkable urban life reality, (viii)

 

Grew but accustomed time recognize,

The difference between a city surprise,

The gas burner, cooking gas,

Electric oven microwave alas, (9)

 

Thousands are paid costly, yet,

No smoke automatic estimate,

In a minute, prepare dishes well,

The charm of hearth withstood, (10)

 

Incomparable taste purity well,

Not packaged ingredients fail,

Tasty leaves or fresh vegetables,

Collected fish from river treble, (11)

 

No way ice-packed fish or meat,

The village produce and a hearth fit,

Homemade spices and aromatic,

Reminded a past teenage, exotic, (12)

 

Village women, if busy cooking,

Attract homemade cakes ring,

Life changed to city life, honestly,

Opportunity for work earnestly, (13)

 

The left village, the hearth got silent,

Vanished the dreamy lives vent,

Missed warmth of hearth recall,

Cold season lo burning charcoal, (14)

 

Sit around in a group of siblings tight,

Mustard oil, fried rice, onion, light,

The gossip endlessly hunts memory,

Missed our hearth n warmth sorry... (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Hearth

Themes: Village cooking places alluring

Written: 18th August 2023, Cuttack

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