THE MANSION

 

THE MANSION

 

Looking like a ghost for hours,

Our house symbolized powers,

Famous for the title house letters,

Far-off cities knew story hears, (1)

 

The grandfather, landlord, royal,

A hundred men loved to pray vocal,

Kind-hearted, merciful, famous,

Serving people education focus, (2)

 

Thousand acres of land produce,

Bountiful harvest pride induces,

Father got an education in Britain,

The scholarship degrees, retain, (3)

 

Matched famous like his father,

Barrister, won cases to prosper,

His name spread over the state,

Brick house multi-storied date, (4)

 

Much published or well-known,

His title of name house is shown,

Name of the building, his title,

A few flock court cases belittle, (5)

 

After the independence family,

Siblings studied in the city simply,

Home education preferred job,

Our time, a century after, throb, (6)

 

Prosperous the Country stories,

Lost a hundred acres to miseries,

Sad, lost revenue, annual crop,

Landless prefer career, develop, (7)

 

Three brothers and two sisters live,

Father living in the building, we leave,

We left one by one our job lead,

Marriage for sisters once bread, (viii)

 

Left the home parent stay alone,

Stood for centuries our mansion,

No more parents alive the sight,

We siblings reach years twilight, (9)

 

Difficult to maintain the house,

Broken roofs collapsing rouse,

Once was a prime location lonely,

City moved for miles us solely, (10)

 

Our children migrated equally,

Settle overseas, live permanently,

The mansion now silent stories,

Yet know detail future worries, (11)

 

Thinking of mortgaging the mansion,

It will be bulldozed, say caution,

We lost our lands, then decision,

Mansion where lived generation, (12)

 

Losing our legacy cried time tell,

Erases everything memory yell,

Finalize the cost of the mansion,

Sold to the person bought won, (13)

 

Sold for nothing yet money link,

The British glass wood life sink,

Mosaic floor Italian marble a lot,

I could know very soon, be dust. (14) 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: The Mansion

Themes: Once famous sold dilapidated

Written: 16th December 2023, Cuttack

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IMMENSITY

 

IMMENSITY

 

 

Visitors to a site are awestruck,

Millennia rock stands its sock,

Single is the stone carved out,

The temple idols items sprout, (1)

 

Electric and atmosphere quietude,

Visitors watching love attitude,

The pride and disbelief ethereal lit,

Across the age mesmerize hit, (2)

 

Magical impossibility imagine,

Million tons of rock dug mine,

Single stone granite hard fit,

Why did men build this temple, lit, (3)

 

How many worked, year long,

How many years toiled, song,

What benefit they get salvage,

What were the motives, had craze, (4)

 

Link footprints of civilization,

Forgot a past scientific notion,

No trace of technology visible,

Modern science denies feasible, (5)

 

Rejects possible construction,

Noticed in front phenomenon,

Hours I passed there moving,

Feeling somewhat whispering, (6)

 

You, human, belong to times,

Civilization class determines,

Far superior current science,

Better a technology convince, (7)

 

Lost everything difficult thing,

Monstrosity construction blink,

It resembles temple idols a lot,

The language carved out alert, (viii)

 

There was literature, arts and crafts,

Humans lived freely, had artifacts,

The gold jewelry, clothes, spices,

Traveling far west best prices, (9)

 

The site I visited reminds me well,

East Asia Hindu temples hail,

Executive carving symbolic lit,

Culture across country delight, (10)

 

Festivals ritual practices neat,

Calculated by stones sunlight,

The position of the star moon date,

Position of planets season wait, (11)

 

Determine the exact date, time,

The rock temple, single define,

Reclined to a granite wall stay,

Probed pristine past I dismay, (12)

 

Being a technocrat failed to face,

Million tons of rock displaced,

No lift crane vehicle crushers,

Simple hammer times ushers, (13)

 

Before me stood impossibility,

Speechless, defied rationality,

It was evening, returned home,

The immensity felt awesome, (14)

 

Civilization, immensity defeat,

The culture immensity was deleted,

That defeats millennia intact,

Immensity attractive impact. (15) 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Immensity

Themes: Phenomenal past civilization 

Written: 15th December 2023, Cuttack

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TRAVESTY

 

TRAVESTY

 

Where O human proceeds ponder,

Your u-turn hairpin bend blunder,

Watch mountain roads sharp rise,

Directions change, horizontal, wise, ( 1)

 

Moving ahead, challenging a steep,

Hairpin bends driving, bus sweep,

Parched lip, throat dry heart trick,

Humans ride over mountain peaks, (2)

 

Death lurks at every U-turn steep,

Human life matchless fears, creep,

The dare do share benefit develop,

Travel diary dirty history cover-up, (3)

 

How many lives met death written,

Challenge height by road, smitten,

Accidents sudden traces forgotten,

Stories of lost families sad burden, (4)

 

Tearful yet smiled, children waving,

Picnic bus rising Ghat road smiling,

The mountain top scenic beauty lit,

Panoramic paradise below to excite, (5)

 

Beautiful houses, roads, lifeline love,

Thin air bird's eye view dream solve,

The megapolis and million lives toil,

Invisible, their bitter fight fume boil, (6)

 

The strikes, angry protests, u-turn fit,

And proclaimed brotherhood defeat,

Suspicious distrust ruled life fights,

Invisible at great heights, scenic sight, (7)

 

The differences, quarrel, conflict, stay,

Hairpin bend life discard, unite way,

I stood with schoolchildren, thank,

Children's innocent future they rank, (viii)

 

Society down the hill of animosity,

Face the U-turns hairpin adversity,

It will be disaster-prone, dangerous,

Children have education cautious, (9)

 

Find the bearing accelerator brake,

To guide their bus efficiency shake,

Mountain road steep, paths future,

Blessed a few children to me allure, (10)

 

The teacher to them, I get impressed,

Travesty to future time suppressed,

Exemplary driving caliber children,

They discussed on the hilltop, trained, (11)

 

Enjoying the views, river bridge, like,

Dreamed railroads industry dislike,

Talking about fresh air, clean water, health,

They discuss their future, nature, wealth, (12)

 

I closed my eyes and prayed no travesty,

Vanish turncoats ruler life modesty,

Serve and love a selfless bus society,

Moving down the hill smoothly, similarity, (13)

 

Full stop to my thoughts tearful left,

Life as a teacher travesty evil felt,

Let the student be truthful, straight drive,

U-turn hairpin beds fearful survive, (14)

 

Travesty of human life uphill exists,

Honesty and modesty youth resists,

Pride of my life, my students dared,

Hate travesty of mind loved cared. (15)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Travesty

Themes: Turncoats U-turn ghat roads

Written: 14th December 2023, Cuttack

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WHOLESOME

 

WHOLESOME

 

Attitude my life adopted adhered to,

Attenuated habit years ago hired,

Lived happily, loved everybody fit,

Whenever meet greet in discreetly, (1)

 

Irreverent you ask me what I get,

Welcoming strangers and forgetting,

Neither remember faces, voice nit,

Not discussed in detail, love to greet, (2)

 

Dawn break hours, I wished a lot,

Prayed for a beautiful day, effort,

Peace bliss may receive stranger,

Every morning, emails, challengers, (3)

 

Prepare flower post including wish,

Love sending my goodwill relish,

It has been for decade countless,

Not that I send messages to impress, (4)

 

Replies I get ignored are immaterial,

My love greets people in life, formal,

The secrecy in the core of my heart,

Unknown people, the Lord reacts, (5)

 

A few greet me or bless express,

To me, warm tears of love impress,

A million greetings in years I send,

Think message to the Lord bend, (6)

 

Less look at the face male-female,

Less look at youth elders in my mail,

The same is the intensity of love,

Every morn mails, at night quell, (7)

 

My friends were never seen in life mix,

Cyberspace I greet, to me Lord fix,

Treat me as breeze touch distant,

My love, little prayer heals instant, (viii)

 

Stays my faith belief religion live,

Friend reply or ignore, I do believe,

No askance, no gratefulness remit,

I acted for a decade regular ambit, (9)

 

Knows some day to quit the world,

Afterlife, if to exist or not, try emerald,

Meet this boundless love rebound,

Listen to the greeting corner resound, (10)

 

Subtle Lord's play His game love,

Love everybody, everyday resolve,

The more I play His game, He likes lit,

His grace afterlife if I exist depict, (11)

 

Wholesome attitude, nature-loving,

Frankly confess posses belonging,

The love I got from an unknown person,

Some call papa, dad, uncle, earn, (12)

 

Why I cry hot tears trickle loving,

Fountain of love strangers spring,

My life, seven decades of encounters,

Enumerate good morning regular, (13)

 

Not a day miss even if sick wish,

Link Lord gets my message, bliss,

Wholesome existence, divine grace,

Loving friend liking message trace. (14)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Wholesome

Themes: Friendly and happy life 

Written: 13th December 2023, Cuttack

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