INDEBTED

 

INDEBTED

Sequel to sacrilege, debt-ridden,

Wanting, nevertheless if hidden,

Momentary happiness goods lit,

Unable to acquire borrows neat, (1)

 

Steep slope of hill imagine stay,

Just one step slips save no way,

Duality the world presents nicely,

Day and night saving debt costly, (2)

 

Stay hungry, minimum clothes sad,

Dignity dispels duplicity, feel bad,

Ordinary home minimum assets,

Earn human to capacity life reset, (3)

 

The beeline to loot time is deceptive,

Money humans stay short relative,

Attraction infinite discipline win,

Indebted to virtue rule supreme, (4)

 

Economic cautious plan future,

Indebted life debt traps capture,

Examine society's business crash,

No foresight lust for profit thrash, (5)

 

How many businesses collapse on the list,

Shareholder saving liquidate tryst,

What happens after the story saddens,

Prosperous houses perish madden, (6)

 

A person, state, or country faces,

Indebted with loan tension traces,

Look, O human, the tree near a pool,

Its root absorbs water the needful, (7)

 

Not one drop of water tree assimilates,

Message to humans it communicates,

Shellfish in the sea rarely drink water,

Wait for the rain drink or moisture, (viii)

 

The pied crested cuckoo waits for rain,

Being thirsty never drinks, in vain,

Not even rainwater on the ground,

Message to human indebted sound, (9)

 

The nature capability earning link,

Human life learns indebted rethink,

Borrow, like disease, cripple sadly,

Indebted the country sights madly, (10)

 

Gratitude is the virtue human likes,

Indebted express willingly life hike,

Evil attitude borrowing and  indebted,

Express gratitude happily indebted. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Indebted

Themes: With a loan or express gratitude

Written: 3rd May 2024, Cuttack

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STRANGER

 

STRANGER

Lost in a megapolis, unknown stay,

Searched for work opportunity way,

Moved to the local train bus stand,

Alone in busy transport demand,(1)

 

A place to ride, get down, and move,

Nobody bothers to notice showing,

Stand-alone at the mall evening,

The light helluva goods alluring, (2)

 

Galleries attract beeline laughter,

Grabbing selected items enamor,

Look at them exchange smiles,

Less spoken brushed aside styles, (3)

 

A city with a million people, stay,

Should we talk to strangers? way,

Buys done payment vanish soon,

Bystanders look amazed and feel boon, (4)

 

Alone among the crowd general,

The whole city witness faces murals,

Traveled overseas education ends,

Plum post career hardly befriends, (5)

 

The invisible barrier shrinks the mind,

Alien in the treasure island find,

Check identity visa passport fit,

Stranger in danger lacks unfit, (6)

 

Moved amidst village, amuse look,

Children laugh at point yet hook,

Dress differs, stranger no danger,

Loving, caring, gentle lives allure, (7)

 

Less persistent on name place,

Provide comfort, food, shelter, grace,

It happened citizens were suspicious,

Stranger very sight a few furious, (viii)

 

Think kidnappers of children hate,

Human commits deeds reciprocate,

Strangers heard through the news,

Saintly person unknown muse, (9)

 

Seen infinite faith humans mingle,

The person traveler walks single,

Last but not least, bus drivers,

The pilot of the flight or train savior, (10)

 

A stranger to all of us we trust,

Unfailingly love a stranger most,

Unfortunately, the situation is in danger,

But an evil person faced a stranger. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Stranger

Themes: The human we don't know

Written: 2nd May 2024, Cuttack

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CROSSROAD

 

CROSSROAD

Faced thunderstorms shuddered,

Came spring blossoms wondered,

Shivered in sickness, fever rising,

Recover to pink health surprising,(1)

 

Emotion killed sadness overpower,

Losing dear ones forever life cower,

The intimate life entwined happily,

Time removes closed relatives sadly, (2)

 

Undone, clueless to meet problems,

Prejudice to practice help emblem,

Never could prove faith established,

Troubling times pray to tear unleash, (3)

 

Life probes the future, fate, destiny, all,

Change situation suddenly recall,

Stands at point of time transfixed,

Where to move left and right yet mixed, (4)

 

Human life virtue to move forward,

Crossroad encounters valor reward,

Trouble comes with the direction poses,

Solving the experience life imposes, (5)

 

The reverse direction, short easy route,

Lies the pit blocks progress, mute,

Crossroad chessboard ambivalent,

Successful, spirit dares equivalent, (6)

 

Knows the struggle, bitter fight, sad,

Recognize the crossroads, get a reward,

The education skill labor industry adds,

Path of progress resist mayday, bad, (7)

 

Village to cities avenues numerous,

Crossroad poses difficulty cautiously,

City to overseas crossroad appears,

Aspiration is unlimited but disappears, (viii)

 

Countless stories, a square visible,

Lamp post under a human single,

Thinking on the first step, puzzled,

Crossroad four directions sizzled, (9)

 

Across all ages, gender life decides,

Progress of life crossroad presides,

Laborers Day Prosperity Day stay,

Work is only route prosperous way, (10)

 

Chose path deception, mischievous,

Back to crossroad hell suspicious,

Crossroad symbolizes noble deeds,

Has a route to the den of the devil indeed. (11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Crossroad

Themes: Avenues chosen for prosperity

Written: 1st May 2024, Cuttack

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PASSENGER

 

PASSENGER

Humans are in motion amazes,

Destination countless baggage,

Purpose, infinite, indefinite, cost,

Across all ages, travel time lost,(1)

 

Must cover the distance in time,

The worried face tension defines,

Million travel every day crowd,

Successful visit results proud, (2)

 

A thousand miles away, few wait,

To receive their kin years met,

A few travel, meet the opportunity,

Lifetime benefits change reality, (3)

 

Lost in commotion human life,

Struggle with the rush hours strife,

Back home, back working place,

Study at distant city due trace, (4)

 

The speed of travel comfort fit,

Amenities requirement requisite,

Passport visa for abroad identity,

Find new era complex insecurity, (5)

 

Vast spider web arrival departure,

The time displays neon to passengers,

Surprise, airport, railway station,

Bus terminals, cruise, fascination, (6)

 

Faster the speed service quality,

New era generation, ask proximity,

Humans passenger peace future,

Passenger for prosperity enamor, (7)

 

Passenger for education wisdom,

Passengers weapon, love seldom,

Passengers hear war crimes fright,

Doubt human civilization right, (viii)

 

Beautiful cities, homes, children,

Moving military arms threaten,

Sum up, remind our generation,

A wooden cart oxen in motion, (9)

 

Children run after the bus, surprised,

Steam engine train music prized,

Less number of travelers, remind,

Limited communication unwind, (10)

 

No more such situation network,

Human, now busy passenger mark,

Visible fear hunts war destruction,

New-era passengers face oblivion. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Passenger

Themes: Travelers

Written: 30th April 2024, Cuttack

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VILLAGE LIFE

 

VILLAGE LIFE

 

 

Infinitesimal aspiration lack lust,

Rustic humans work hard a must,

Accustomed to the vagary of weather,

Cultivation of their culture enamor, (1)

 

Green fields village pond cottage,

Dusty road connect thank amaze,

The creepers, vegetables, flowers,

Backyard deep well bath showers, (2)

 

Cattle, straws collected, a sight,

Patch of vegetable leaves delight,

Potato, tomato, green chili, grows,

Onion, garlic, and cucumber shows, (3)

 

A jackfruit inlet to home curries,

The fresh banana plate is leaf hurries,

Wooden hearth silver bowls plate,

Mustard oil cooking aroma wait, (4)

 

Spices village home cook reminder,

Urban life is different taste wonder,

Fish from ponds or rivers are plentiful,

Hens innumerable eggs tasteful, (5)

 

Milk, corn, fried rice, milk product,

Villager leads lives at minimum cost,

In the village square, there are trees,

Tea shop, wooden bench precise, (6)

 

Place of gossip life enjoys evening,

Back home home late night thing,

Rest peasants sleep no fan beds,

A mattress, oil lamp, life threads, (7)

 

No way, inferior to urban life,

Village festival community sway,

The bond variety of cakes sweet,

Symbol of the people exists neat, (viii)

 

Look at the beauty of the village sight,

The cow herd evening sight right,

Dust glows behind cows, bells ring,

Distant hills, nearby river string, (9)

 

Schoolchildren play on the ground,

Headmaster personality sound,

Respected by villagers to advise,

At night darkness thick reminisce, (10)

 

The utter silence and peace present,

Left village life to city lot resent,

Job forced many of us to leave sad,

The noise pollution city is like mad. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Village Life

Themes: Serenity, simplicity of rural life

Written: 29th April 2024, Cuttack

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WEAVER

 

WEAVER

 

Paramount performance creative,

Build the nest miracles primitive,

Such a tiny bird collects twigs to fit,

Entwines twigs, intricate, inherit, (1)

 

The home for a bird secure stable,

Faces wind storms stays capable,

Message for humans weaver deal,

Thread harness, entwine, reveal, (2)

 

Weaving machine wooden ancient,

Cotton threads, cloth print decent,

The prime job of weaver for a meal,

Home assure suture cloths reveal, (3)

 

Look at the leadership suture well,

The weaver lays policies act dwell,

From bird to the leader of the country,

Job is ingenuity intricate inventory, (4)

 

Weaver wins appreciation clothes,

Leaders lay policies result worth,

Save the dignity of people working,

Lays defense policy safety matching, (5)

 

Bird inherit foresight acumen stay,

The leader of the country weaves sway,

Each of the rules a tread of weaver,

Each of the rule twigs of the nest sheer, (6)

 

Planning, making, framing, visionary,

A snake advances to nest adversary,

Similar situation, fifth columnists,

Break the rule bend threat persists, (7)

 

 

With a myriad of principles, a leader is chosen,

Actions like a weaver or bird reason,

The cloth is a cover for security tests,

The nest country is home greatest, (viii)

 

The election is a great process, motion,

Democracy in function weave earn,

Hundreds of thoughts to principles,

Fight among each other in ripples, (9)

 

Results of the election weaver the voter,

Their leadership principle is clear,

Where is the bird's nest or weaver,

Immersed in thought election fever, (10)

 

From tiny bird the nest weaver cloth,

Election manifesto chose voter worth,

Summer heat election time perseveres,

Come June leader as ruler a weaver. (11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Weaver

Themes: The poem focuses on the Indian election

Written: 28th April 2024, Cuttack

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