SENILE

 

SENILE

Human life graced forgetfulness,

Losing near and dear one press,

Those moments hurtful shatter,

Years after the event look up better, (1)

 

Attachment, grandfather, uncles,

Grandmother Aunty stumbles,

Siblings, brothers, sisters, cousins,

Changes time human if resigns, (2)

 

No more visible hollowness, sad,

Piercing silence winds forward,

The crowded house in orchard,

Empty moss-covered awkward, (3)

 

Whimper breeze on yesteryear,

Prosperous family living, allure,

There stays grandfather living,

With grandmother along thing, (4)

 

A few no more in this world sad,

The senile grandfather is silent,

Hard to recapture incidents, say,

Grandmother explains to stay, (5)

 

Their grandson came back sock,

Grandpa fails to recognize luck,

It was the right time, Grandma treat,

She is not senile alert but greet, (6)

 

The orchard and garden house,

The grandchild loves to stay chosen,

 Elderly man hundred years old,

Withstood event shattering bold, (7)

 

Furnish the house painted clean,

Great-grandchildren stay mean,

Three generations apart, life smiles,

Great-grandfather  looked senile, (viii)

 

Whose son and grandson failed sadly,

Long was the time decades badly,

A few of his offspring departed,

Fails to recollect memory wanted, (9)

 

A century after watching children,

Senile to their link joy heartened,

Sprouted happiness cheered a lot,

Great-grandchildren had effort, (10)

 

In old age looks at disbelieve,

His roots sprouted resilient strive,

Timeless human life, blood thrive,

Senile the centurion children drive. ( 11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Senile

Themes: Lineage stays confusing

Written: 19thMay 2024, Cuttack

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SQUARE MEAL

 

SQUARE MEAL

Cloud gathering at the western horizon,

Parched land entangles hope caution,

This year's rainfall is sufficient to cultivate,

Farmers look at sky dream motivate, (1)

 

Their slim figure turban dirty cloth,

Thatched house, no property worth,

The penchant to pass a day in fieldwork,

A farmer's life bullocks cart remarks, (2)

 

Rain has come plowing began to think,

A billion wait for a square meal link,

A country with millions of hungry homeless,

No future, illiterate, sick life, depressed, (3)

 

Thousands of children quit school,

Poverty forced parents, sad, painful,

Children working as laborers in reality,

Saves square meal feed incredibility, (4)

 

No more hunger, poverty, prosperous,

Green Revolution aftermath onerous,

Miraculous transformation harvest,

Square meal, free rations to the poorest, (5)

 

Population of America, free ration,

Distribute food to uplift the nation,

Nascent progress prosperity allure,

Reminiscence of past famines horror, (6)

 

Forget about a square meal, a grain,

Famine and droughts erased pain,

A million lives were lost, villages were wiped out,

The country often remembers less doubt, (7)

 

Look at neighborhoods, the world suffers,

A square meal daydream encounters,

stays famine draught deforestation,

A grain life asks square meal mourn, (viii)

 

The aspect of food sufficiently diminishes,

Future of the world, nature to vanish,

Humans today ponder on the table,

Dining table a square means unable, (9)

 

New suggestion for millet vegetate,

Conserve water a must propagate,

Generation should think children,

The world belongs to them, bolden, (10)

 

Let there be granaries of golden crops,

A square meal to hungry man hop,

Possession of happiness is not gold,

O human seeks a square meal bold. (11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Square Meal

Themes: Essential to human life

Written: 18th May 2024, Cuttack

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FROLIC

 

FROLIC

There are barriers, classes, creed,

Children segregated stay indeed,

Barriers are  invisible, remarkable,

Human, educated, create trouble,(1)

 

The color, skin, and eyes portray sad,

Language, lifestyle, religion, regard,

Children know nothing, are innocent,

Mingle without friction act decent, (2)

 

Frolic gay happiness boundless,

Barrier childish innocence misses,

Overpower the sight divine sense,

No division experiences intense, (3)

 

Looked at the blue sky, birds swirling, 

Frolics gently descends, sweeping,

Imagined fish in a pond swimming,

Agile, frolic, movements turning, (4)

 

Calf herds play artificial running, 

Worth watching ears, tail frolicking,

Sat on a bench and observed children,

Played on the playground happen, (5)

 

Noticed divisions, melted ecstatic,

Unpolluted, innocent hearts frolic,

Compared with birds, fish, or calves,

Children frolic, without bias, and laugh, (6)

 

School closed, promptly bus divided,

Sadly, humans impose class, rides,

Even streets, area, differentiate, hit,

Frolic sensitivity locals due to defeat, (7)

 

Culture, lifestyle, food, belief thrive,

Frolic, mingling, parents deprive,

Stroll back home, thoughtful, sad,

Come across slum children mad, (viii)

 

Poverty depravity snatched class,

No division, hatred, frolicking mass,

Play  unhindered, no school, smile,

Hide and seek to frolic their style, (9)

 

Unhappy, heartbroken, back home sat,

Divine play frolic essential, exact,

Poisons mind not birds, deer, fish,

Children, innocence, frolicking wish, (10)

 

Adolescence advances frolic miss,

Visit a nearby slum, a child I kiss,

Frolic with him wish to return home,

Curious our world wall frolic some. (11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Frolic

Themes: Friendliness limited

Written: 17th May 2024, Cuttack

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ADDRESS

 ADDRESS

A miracle happens before eyes clear,

Unable to perceive experience later,

Fascinates the changing world, sad,

Nothing is permanent look forward, (1)

 

Amassed property sequestered stay,

Changes hand surprising short joy,

Who owns today, not owner impact,

Living, famous, prosperous, intact, (2)

 

Know neighborhood city state well,

Address of the person's home detail,

A huge banyan tree stood tall,

Collapsed a famous name story roll, (3)

 

They changed their places divided,

The rock mansion crumpled and faded,

Banyan trees many found root sad,

Picture of a changing world inward, (4)

 

Seeds in side fruits the tree laden,

Place designated fruit place garden,

Today not ripe, but tomorrow ripen,

Seed travels far-off germinate open, (5)

 

Places change cocoanut cross ocean,

Islands are covered, motions lesson,

Lagoon marshy land bird's nest stay,

Dried-up parched land birds fly away, (6)

 

Changes their nest to different places,

Youth travels overseas luck graces,

Prosperous life, they settle happily,

A permanent address erased sadly, (7)

 

Wonderstruck, look around, stunned,

Impermanent place transient learned,

Stood before my house nameplate,

A day comes in life be written late, (viii)

 

Quit from the world few got famous,

Address mere mention not curious,

Letters returned as address wrong,

Temporal stays life melancholy  song, (9)

 

Address misnomer home unknown,

Soul quits someday scantly mourn,

Miracle is the attachment mystery,

The soul enters into the world, the story, (10)

 

Notion its place details references,

Admit not illusory home preferences,

Address permanent place in space,

Body with fire water soil home trace. (11)

 

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Address

Themes: Changing world impermanent

Written: 16th May 2024, Cuttack

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RETIRED

 RETIRED

Ingress sadness jolts emotion,

The news last day in office on,

Signed the file, last was the signature,

Unfinished project heart peer,(1)

 

The leadership vision progresses,

Snatched retirement day press,

Sat motionless quiet reminisce,

First, took the job service risks, (2)

 

Decades rolled failed to guess,

How soon time passed depresses,

Signed retirement note natural,

Remit savings today to me legal, (3)

 

Not allowed to come to office fit,

Felt uncomfortable at home lit,

The month will be completed salary,

Last time get salary faces worry, (4)

 

Pension per month, a few rupees,

No work, forgotten life miseries,

This way started, day unhappy,

Passed a day after night creepy, (5)

 

Socked no more to attend office,

Unable to think works practice,

The busy life abruptly ended,

Meeting conference attended, (6)

 

The void, piercing silence sock,

Sitting idle at home life if mock,

Discovered, wife, children, busy,

Evading me engaged life easy, (7)

 

Sad passed afternoon resting,

Tied, feel weakness often sleeping,

Found no visitors dissociated,

Start waking to parks initiated, (viii)

 

Sit alone for the evening provoke,

Human life age advances revoke,

Less could guess family engross,

Their lives, dream, cherish gross, (9)

 

Retired, socked, heard, elder man,

Need help, discover failing I can,

News irregular shattering faint,

Closest friend no more an event, (10)

 

Found the anchor at harbor fix,

Morning evening prayer transfix,

Know some day to quit, life retired,

Not tired, to pray the Lord, shared. (11)

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Retired

Themes: Introspect retired life

Written: 15th May 2024, Cuttack

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