MERCY

 

MERCY

 

Listen to whispers of the wind,

Living life, vibrant pas,t duly finds,

Suffered subjugated irony, stay,

Encounter viciousness and dismay, (1)

 

Exploitation a few discriminates,

Looted in front of laughter debate,

Humans live love supremacy lit,

Class divide dissects, to delight, (2)

 

Why do men search garbage for food?

Feasts merrily a few lot broods,

Have you known the pain of hunger?

Watch unemployed yet younger, (3)

 

Scar of past lost parents future,

Illiterate roam free fate vulture,

There happens, lightening rain,

Thunder awakened life insane, (4)

 

Leave family career friend exit,

Resolute in serving, hungry exist,

Indomitable courage, endurance,

Inflame wiped tears sufferance, (5)

 

Same human male-female kid,

Inspired to learn to smile to read,

God has given both hands act,

Literacy with skill change react, (6)

 

The bird builds a nest ingenuity,

Sleeping on road footpath unity,

Build colonies homes firm more,

Poverty disappears lives enamor, (7)

 

It happened before our eyes true,

Unbelievable acts change view,

A solemn oath, once taken,

People were calling him a joker, (viii)

 

Today, these men treat him as a god,

Hardly seen the Lord their abode,

God is in their hut with children,

Teach play with them if smitten, (9)

 

Not a politician, leader, or thinker,

He was begging for the job with no future,

Mercy negates bemoan hope induces,

Rises courage, strength produces, (10)

 

Merciful the Lord, show mercy visible,

Mercy, acts of human heart miracle,

Mercy, fair weather, beautiful nature,

Mercy, fertile earth, river, hill verdure. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Mercy

Themes: Showing kindness 

Written: 5th February 2024, Cuttack

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TERRESTRIAL

 TERRESTRIAL

 

 

The human mind behaves, disbelieve,

Invisible the divide, fight to survive,

Youth visits impulsive attraction,

Beautiful females dream emotion, (1)

 

Introspect heart for contact luck.

Awake, nightlong, yet family block,

How come love happens at first sight,

Every encounter provides delight, (2)

 

Impossible, the divide is concrete,

Break your head fizzles discreet,

Forgotten tears, soaked letters lit,

Love is automatic, captivates neat, (3)

 

Grew in life urban life rebellious,

Laugh at the divide harmonious,

Dance, sing, stroll hand in hand,

Share lives bond, as a magic wand, (4)

 

No relation strangers acquainted,

Living together for years wanted,

A home rented earning, separate,

Man-woman stay together, date, (5)

 

They may marry or separate fit,

At their own decision, link demerit,

Family surrogacy at cost a living,

Forget child donate to couple sing, (6)

 

Love to watch elderly couple wed,

Children left long ago masquerade,

Property shelter home inhuman,

Elderly persons, rich learn civilians, (7)

 

United, they stay alive till separated,

Terrestrial Male female bond lasted,

Early youth loved a girl who failed life,

The class stood against marriage strife, (viii)

 

Surrendered to the family proceed,

City life met a female, liked indeed,

We loved each other, stayed together,

She wanted to be independent here, (9)

 

Years we stayed, she got married,

scantly even invited me, she lied,

Got married myself, childless, sad,

Failed attempts for years got mad, (10)

 

Got a child through surrogacy cost,

Modern is age, accept reality, utmost,

His wife divorced, went away with a child,

Twilight years found a mate, yield, (11)

 

Staying together fascinating lives,

Terrestrial animals we live believe,

Seasons change, and centuries change,

Generation watches terrestrial amaze. (12)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Terrestrial

Theme: Worldly human lives

Written: 4th February 2024 Cuttack

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THE LAGOON

 

THE LAGOON

 

The mesmerizing effect of evening sights,

Amber the glow, crimson delight,

Unbelievable sunrise-sunset vibe,

From childhood, happiness thrives, (1)

 

The place is a habitat, a bird's colony,

Morning visit yet noise symphony,

Aquatic life rich famous the shore,

Villages depict paradise life allure, (2)

 

Never could forget the place boon,

Grew up there, boating in the lagoon,

Nature, her bridal dress, marshy,

Worth watching bird nest ecstasy, (3)

 

Remembered writing in my diary,

Life offered opportunity and ivory,

I Flew overseas, studied, settled too,

Modern life megapolis agree it woo, (4)

 

From rustic life to city life change,

Happy with my family home to amaze,

Years rolled forgot childhood a lot,

Career status travel project effort, (5)

 

Then came a call from the parent shook,

Dad is sick, Mom alone wrote broke,

I, my family moved to the village, I found,

Misses the lagoon nowhere around, (6)

 

A sprawling megapolis stands there,

Looking at the village vanish nowhere,

Metal roads, boulevards, buildings,

Shopping mall hospital shielding, (7)

 

Gone were the marshy lands sad,

Birds no more visible, seldom mad,

Generation change time in phase,

Growing population life find ways, (viii)

 

Depleted nature vanishing beauty,

Humans build concrete roads duty,

People keep a small lake, garden,

The park is managed and stays warden, (9)

 

Hundreds of small children play,

The lagoon no more another way,

Sit alone in the park, write a time,

The changes a generation sublime, (10)

 

Obituary, I wrote on migratory birds,

The tasty prawn crab fish reward,

Symphony is played in nightclubs,

Youth mad car, bikes, heartthrob. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of poem: The Lagoon

Themes: Change with modern lives

Written: 3rd March 2024 Cuttack

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UNKNOWN

 

UNKNOWN

 

Grew up, the city beautiful excite,

Finished school, job here till night,

Sweet home family alluring exists,

Temptations virulent heart resists, (1)

 

A street, every house known to me,

Many of them grew up study time,

Friendship adhesive, bond stronger,

School college market, known sheer, (2)

 

A world within the world life happy,

City glaring lights crowd joy creepy,

Heard people earn big money, are wiser,

Affluence opulent lifestyle superior, (3)

 

Luxury comfort dimension change,

Working there makes money life craze,

Fought with attached mind decide,

Surrendered at last lustily preside, (4)

 

Left family here, join a job, lucrative, 

Rising income aspiration objective,

Unfortunately, migration is disastrous,

Not the owner or neighbor curious, (5)

 

Unknown in the restaurant market, 

Crowd mingling daily push basket,

The anger rebuttal run away soon,

Strangers everywhere earned boon, (6)

 

No work, no food, sickness, life seen, 

Money is needed to help life win,

Megapolis mega expenditure must,

Gradual life felt weaker need to adjust, (7)

 

Stood at the railways, looked at people,

None look at him running in a hustle,

Same at a mall, on a bus or park, alone,

A few years realized unknown blown, (viii)

 

Why? Why, he questioned himself?

Stay as a migrant unknown curse,

He returned that day sick and wise,

Gathered friends and family now prize, (9)

 

Help him recover, wishing profusely,

Tearful realized a man assiduously,

Look at the pyre, people stood,

The air was heavy memories brood, (10)

 

Tears, silent prayers, spirit departs,

Unknown land lone pyre impacts,

Far better his soil people he knew,

Changed his life migrant review. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Unknown

Themes: Fortunate to be amongst your own

Written: 2nd March 2024 Cuttack

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GRASSROOTS

 

GRASSROOTS

 

Grew up educated and believed,

Professional life status survived,

Skyscrapers kiss the sky, symbolize,

Where human aspiration is realized, (1)

 

Work starts at day to late night,

Travel far-flung, purpose a flight,

Conference meeting people thrill,

Famous hotel's monotonous drill, (2)

 

Mosaic marble floors chandelier,

Bedroom foam mattress superior,

Bewilder bathroom switches stay,

The comfort restaurants dismay, (3)

 

Variety of food leisure life passes,

A bundle of currency earns splashes,

Fewer believed education provides,

Lifestyle work prestige a high ride, (4)

 

It has been years forgot home, sad,

In front star hotels, demeanor mad,

Unknown guise smiles and says a few,

Visiting card bank cards to review, (5)

 

The tall building glass tower, I fear,

Aloof, strange life, polite behavior,

Why do I get scared wish home soon,

Remorse the look of children, moon, (6)

 

Papa, have you come stay a week,

I replied to children, holiday seek,

Want to return to our village eager,

Informed my parents past assure, (7)

 

Changed life so soon abode nature,

I grew up here with beautiful, verdure, 

Rustic hallow rural scenes change,

Thatched roof parents life amaze, (viii)

 

Sleep on the lap of my mother resting, 

Children laughing at me and enjoying,

Rice water leaves vegetables chilly,

Onion tamarind mango eats silly,(9)

 

Forget hotel food childhood taste, 

Lunch over card games, then rest,

Children asked, papa, now your life,

I answered my grass root, not strife. (10)

 

The life far from high society class,

Far from metal road towers glass,

Far from tension, worries, visions,

Grassroots survived eons, reasons. (11) 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Grassroots

Themes: Village life than city life

Written: 1st March 2024 Cuttack

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