MY CONCEPT OF HEAVEN

MY CONCEPT OF HEAVEN

Some find a heaven in a sound health,
Some in abundant wealth,
Some in a dazzling dome,
And some others in a humble home!

Some find a heaven in a renowned reward,
Some in a kind and soothing word,
Some in a pretty and alluring face,
And some others in life's honest Race!

Alas! Some find a heaven in hurting innocent hearts,
Some in playing ugly and ignoble parts,
Some in marring others' sweet Mirth,
And some others in aborting a legitimate birth!

But, I find my heaven in the wellbeing of all,
In everyone's rise, and in no one's fall,
In turning others' tears into pearly joy drops,
And in cultivating and reaping my own Destiny's Crops!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 29.03.2018

ODIA KABITA PHULA

ODIA KABITA "SATARE"

BILEI KAHINKI KHAIBA PAHARA?

A TRIBUTE TO A TRUE TEACHER

A TRIBUTE TO A TRUE TEACHER

Thou art the Gleaming Glitter of the gloomy earth,
The Bright Dispeller of the dark, ignorant path!
The Sun illuminates us with His sheer coruscation,
Thou dost enlighten with Thy rare, reviving erudition!

Thou art the Generator of all noble Thoughts,
The Equator of all of our guileless guts,
The Anchor-sheet behind every success,
The Catalyst of the huge, global race,
The Harbinger of the perennial Peace,
The Endower of the perpetual Bliss,
The Redeemer of all the learners,
Ah! Beside God Thou art in the slash!

To glorify Thee who render us unpayable betters
In my mundane lexicon prevails an acute paucity of letters!

N.B. Each letter of TEACHER has been illustrated in the second stanza of the poem.
©Shankar D Mishra   26 .03.2018

A FAKE FRIEND

A FAKE FRIEND

A fake friend ever unsuspectingly creeps up to pretend,
Under the noble skin of a reliable friend, a felonious fiend!
Oh! He does successfully his evil motives camouflage,
To fiddle and swindle, sticks on his face a fake badge!

Under the fake robe of friendship and reciprocation,
He counts his own chickens piling selfish acquisition!
He builds and erects for you reverie castles in the air,
He dupes as a Venus flytrap in his unobtrusive snare!

He feeds you full with many husky, illusory promises,
He assures you to fetch the Moon at night’s recess!
To pluck you the Sun, after day recedes and retreats,
With million, gullible pretexts, he later you greets!

But, little does he know: “Truth always prevails at last,
The fake and the pseudo perish, like bubbles, fast!"

* fiend – an evil or cruel person * felonious - antisocial
* fiddle - deceive * swindle – cheat
* Venus flytrap - a plant that feeds on insects and catches them by quickly closing its leaves when their surface is touched so that the insects cannot escape

©Shankar D Mishra   27.03.2018

OH! WITHOUT WATER!

OH! WITHOUT WATER!

Oh! The matter of water, forever, most solemnly and seriously matters,
For, without it, most painfully and profusely empty will be the dish platters,
Will accompany then pitiable hunger cacophonies and sad clatters,
And will, ultimately, invite most unwelcome starvation slogans and biting blatters!

Oh! Without water, lives on the Earth will surely and sorely fall flatter,
Death will loom ominously and menacingly like a fearsome fly swatter!
Ah! Joy will wince and wriggle, making survival of all sour and bitter,
Alas! Our Self -wrought adversity, like a cruel cutter, will relentlessly batter!

Oh! Without water, the flowers of Mirth and blithe will instantly fade and dry,
The fruits of comfort, cleanliness and enjoyment will soon fall down and die!
Once the heavenly haven of plenitude and abundance will the castles of the Sky,
And all living organisms will bid to the Earth an untimely and unwelcome Bye!

Alas! Thus it is high time; all humans loved and saved waters
Before unmindful, wanton follies tear all lives to innumerable tatters!

*platters – large flat dishes or plates for serving food
*blatter –repeated and noisy strikes
* wince – make a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of pain or distress

N.B. : 22 March is celebrated as the World Water Day.

©Shankar D Mishra   23 .03.2018

WHEN DOES GOD BLESS ONE TO BE IMMORTAL?

WHEN DOES GOD BLESS ONE TO BE IMMORTAL?

When one’s ultimate Motto becomes one’s only selfless service,

When one willingly showers for the deprived benevolence lavish,

While helping the destitute one is neither churlish nor peevish;

God never lets any devilish force his inimitable Zeal impoverish!

When happiness of the masses becomes one’s life’s only Mission,

When one is eager enough to shoulder public strain and tension,

When sheds one sweats for the hungry and starving’s daily ration;

One becomes a Messiah for the building of a new World-Nation!

When one becomes an Engine for the people’s problem Trains,

When one turns a carriage for the commoners’ pressing burdens,

When, for the emancipation of the needy, one sinks and drinks pains;

One verily becomes foolproof for all sorts of recurring and rigid stains!

When lives one solely for the smooth and easy lives of the whole Races,

When, for the sweet smiles of others, one bitter hardships embraces,

When unhesitatingly  bleeds one, for the hapless men’s legitimate cases;

To make one Immortal, God, the Omnipotent, magnanimously blesses!

N. B. This poem is dedicated to MOTHER TERESA.

Glossary:

Ultimate Motto - final goal of life

Deprived – underprivileged/poor

benevolence - compassion

Lavish - plentiful

Destitute – poor/ penniless

Churlish - rude

Peevish - bad-tempered

Inimitable - matchless

Zeal - enthusiasm

Impoverish – diminish/weaken

Eager – enthusiastic/ready

Shoulder – bear/carry

Messiah - a zealous leader of some cause or project

World-Nation – the whole world is a nation

Verily – indeed/really

Foolproof - perfect

recurring – coming or happening frequently

Rigid – unbending/obstinate

Hapless – unfortunate

Unhesitatingly – willingly/readily

Legitimate – rightful

Omnipotent - all-powerful

Magnanimously – generously/ selflessly

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author of 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 23.03.2018

A POET

HAPPY WORLD POETRY DAY!

A POET

Oh! A perceptive, sensitive and imaginative poet

Can travel at an unthinkable and immeasurable rate,

Can see the dancing, joyous flowers in the captivating heaven,

Can gather precious pearls at the fathomless bottom of the ocean!

He can have the access to the impregnable bowel of the Earth,

Can relish the taste of the tantalizing Death and blissful Birth,

Can suck the sugared, mouthwatering nectar as the busy bees,

Can blow across the universe faster than the omnipresent breeze!

He can play with the huge fatal whales and the gigantic lethal sharks,

Can fly with the jets and sing with the cuckoos, nightingales and larks,

Can jump onto the shiny, silvery and serene bosom of the Moon,

Can clasp the burning and blazing Sun in a twinkling of an eye soon!

He can swim swifter than the boats and steamers against currents,

Can inhale the rejoicing and fragrant flowers’ spell-binding scents,

Can easily set fire on the incombustible water, stone and feelings,

Can excel any worldly goldsmith in moulding the bejeweled rings!

He can rule over the invincible kings, emperors and monarchs,

Can pace like invisible, intangible Time in the impenetrable dark,

Can meticulously convert a dry desert into a green, fertile oasis,

Can build in the space a lofty mansion of peace, mirth and bliss!

He can glide and slide on the shivering ice-berg without getting cold,

Can scale the sky kissing peak of Mount Everest with no rope to hold,

Can swing without swings wherever and whenever he wishes,

Can catch a deadly cobra and caress even if it scarily hisses!

He can lick venom and swallow hemlock without being dead,

Can suck ambrosia from the sweet, soft blossom’s honey head,

Can tumble down with the falling showers without getting hurt,

Can visualize a prolonged war that was in the long past fought!

Who else can wreathe the richest garlands with magical alphabet,

Who can surpass the excellence of an ever adorable poet,

Who can undermine the expertise of an appreciable poet,

Who can retain the enviable quality of an inimitable poet?

Who can belittle the special flare of a praiseworthy poet,

Who can underestimate the knack of a marvellous poet,

Who can transcend the power of a proficient poet,

Who can retain the unique genius of an adept poet?

Who can wield the pen as poignantly as a skilled poet,

Who can turn down the potential of an adroit poet,

Who can retain the vision of gifted, visionary poet,

Who is in the world as great as a miraculous poet?

SDM'S definition of poetry :Dear friends, according to me,

"Poetry is the wordy, suckled offspring of a sacred, solemn communion of mature experiences with emotions that is conceived in the subtle niche of an observant, thoughtful, imaginative and sensitive human mind."

Glossary:

Perceptive – observant

Captivating – fascinating

Fathomless - incalculable

Impregnable – unconquerable/unreachable

Bowel - inside of the earth

Tantalizing – teasing/ tormenting

Omnipresent – present everywhere/all-pervading

Fatal - deadly

Gigantic - huge

Lethal - deadly

Serene - calm

Rejoicing - delighting

Fragrant - scented

Spell-binding – soothing/ fascinating

Incombustible - fireproof

Invincible – unbeatable

Intangible – indescribable/ subtle

Impenetrable – impassable

Meticulously - carefully

Oasis – a garden in the desert

Mansion – a big building

Mirth and bliss - delight and happiness

Glide - move smoothly

Caress – touch gently

Venom - poison

Hemlock – a type of poison

Ambrosia – nectar

Inimitable - matchless

Poignantly – movingly

Miraculous - unbelievable

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author of 15 books including 2 Grammar books] 21.03.2018

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DO TELL, WHO WILL NOT WISH TO BE THY VALENTINE?

DO TELL, WHO WILL NOT WISH TO BE THY VALENTINE?

O my Dear! Do tell, who will not passionately pine to lie,

On thy so sweet, so supple and so spacious a bosom,

Like a fortunate, selective and amorous Butterfly,

To suck the delish Honey of thy Love from thy heart-blossom,

Under the ever beautiful, bounteous and blithesome blue Sky?

O my Dear! Do tell, who will will to miss to clasp and kiss thee

With utmost eagerness, enthusiasm, buoyancy and glee,

As the greedy roots cling too firmly the soils of a tall tree

To extract the Sap of thy Love for his hungry and longing soul,

Until the delirious latter mingles, like salt in water, with his goal?

O my Dear! Do tell, who will wish in life to miss to be thy Valentine:

To be blessed with a pilgrimage to thy life’s scintillating Shrine,

To be showered with plentiful peace and immeasurable Solace,

To be finally gifted with a charming Queen of Beauty, Duty and Grace?

Glossary:

Passionately – keenly/with a strong wish

Pine – desire strongly

Supple - soft

Spacious – roomy/having enough space

Amorous – romantic

Bounteous – bountiful/ plentiful

Blithe – happy

Will will - will want

Clasp - hold onto/embrace

Buoyancy – enthusiasm

Glee – delight

Sap – life sustaining liquid of a tree

Longing – desirous

Delirious - restless

Latter - second one, here the Valentine

Mingles – becomes one with the beloved

Scintillating – bright/ sparkling

Shrine - holy place/here the holy life of one’s beloved

Pilgrimage – here, efforts made to reach the destination of finding the hand of one’s beloved

Plentiful - abundant

Immeasurable - endless

Solace - comfort

Charming – attractive/ delightful

Grace – loveliness/ elegance

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author of 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 22.03.2018

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WHEN THOU ART ON MY LAP……

WHEN THOU ART ON MY LAP……

Oh! The shine of thy luscious look,

Supersedes soon a sprightly and sparkling brook!

The captivating hue of thy cherry lips,

Knocks my heart’s door; thru my mind’s window peeps!

Oh! Thy rose soft and silky cheeks,

My capturing glance so quickly picks!

Thy smooth and velvety chin,

Stirs me ever to smile contently, and grin!

Oh! Thy white and silvery teeth,

Are, no doubt, the Jasmines of a fresh wreath!

Thy Love’s rich and enduring treasure,

Is truly beyond any mundane scale or measure!

Oh! The sensuous ripples of thy spell-binding smiles,

Beckon me onto thy supple bosom from a million miles!

Thy enchanting Beauty is the Full Moon shy and new,

To have thy unique glance, myriad Jasons are on the queue!

Thou hast indeed become an enthusiastic envy of the hour,

For, thou hast now become Beauty’s indisputable Heir!

Thou hast ultimately become an invaluable find of my life,

Lo! When thou art on my lucky lap, almost won is my strife!

Glossary:

Luscious – delicious

Supersedes - take the place of

Sprightly – energetic

Sparkling - shining

Brook - stream

Captivating hue - charming colour

Peeps - sneaks a look/ casts a glance

Stirs – rouses/excites

Wreath – garland

Enduring - lasting

Beyond - past

Mundane - ordinary

Sensuous - intense

Spell-binding – fascinating

Supple bosom – soft chest

Enchanting - charming

Myriad – countless

Queue - line

Indisputable - beyond doubt

Ultimately - at last

Strife – fight

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 20.03.2018

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THREE REQUESTS FOR MY BELOVED!

THREE REQUESTS FOR MY BELOVED!

O my dear Birds! Will you kindly lend me your flying wings,

So that I can reach out to my shy beloved, who ever swings,

In my life’s spacious sky of an infinite and pristine Love;

Who does ever ignite and inflame me like an ardent Stove?

O my dear vernal Breeze! Will you convey my missives please,

To my beloved, who with her spotless Love does my heart seize,

Who lives restlessly far away from me at an unapproachable place?

Your service will surely fill me with abundant ecstasy and solace!

O my dear Spring, will you mercifully flow, like a fairy’s dream boat,

Loaded with my loving caskets of golden hugs and diamond kisses,

And gift my waiting and restive beloved, after a careful and safe float;

Oh!  Without my presence she feels shattered into uncountable pieces!

O my dear Friends! I must oblige myself paying you seas of gratitude,

For, you will gladden my beloved’s heart with my loyal Love plentitude;

You will turn her dreary life of a hot May-day into a happy hey-day,

You will build a heaven on Earth for our unalloyed Love forever to sway!

Glossary:

Pristine – pure

Ignite and inflame - inspire

Seize - take hold of

Unapproachable - distant

Abundant – plentiful

Ecstasy – great happiness

Solace – comfort

Mercifully - kindly

Restive – restless

Shattered - devastated

Oblige – put one under a debt of gratitude

Gratitude - thankfulness

Plentitude –

Hey-day - glory days

Unalloyed – unmixed

Sway – rule

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 17.03.2018

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BETRAYAL

BETRAYAL

Betrayal is a treacherous, lethal snake-bite from the back,
Until stinging, it keeps the vulnerable prey in the fatal dark.
Its deadly teeth are sharper than those of a giant shark.
Once caught in its mortal grip, it’s too tough to inch back!

Betrayal keeps the prey under susceptible infatuation,
It casts on him an unwary, alluring, hypnotic fascination,
It clamps its viciously entrancing, enticing stamp on him,
Until his last breath, it enthralls him with a sham charm!

The portrayal of betrayal is tedious, tiresome and tough,
Cheaters adorn themselves with this hideous slough.
They hoodwink the innocent by their hallucinatory game.
Oh! They are devoid of scruple, pity, humanity and shame!

Hark! To keep yourselves immune to this baneful betrayal,
You must neither be credulous nor be easily gullible.
You must stop thinking that all types of oil are edible,
You must learn to be more mature, sensible and practical.

The betrayers must be timely picked and duly pricked,
They must be taught an unforgettable and lasting lesson,
They must be chastised for a revived and refined incarnation,
To protect the innocuous from being perfidiously kicked.

* chastised –punished  * innocuous – innocent * perfidiously - falsely

©Shankar D Mishra   17 .03.2018
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THE WISHES OF MY HEART

THE WISHES OF MY HEART

O God! Let the thirst quenching Tube-well of my heart

Keep pumping out the water of pure love and selfless service,

That may be sweetly sipped and gladly drunk in many a draught,

That may be considered more useful than Jacob’s Golden Fleece!

O God! Let the generous Heaven of my heart

Keep raining copiously the showers of Mercy past calculation,

Only on the disadvantaged and deprived lives’ unprivileged desert,

To witness soon a curious growth of happy and luxuriant vegetation!

O God! Let the magnanimous heart of my Kalpavriksha

Keep granting the long unfulfilled wishes of the whole mankind,

As a benevolent Agent of God, fetch seas of smiles for all to find,

Blessing only the Upright and the Virtuous with sweet Moksha!

O God! Let the bottomless heart of my fathomless Fountain,

Keep sprinkling an endless joy for all to treasure and contain,

To forget forever the bitter bites of poverty, hardship and sorrow,

To march ahead with a torch of hope for a much better tomorrow!

Glossary:

Quenching – satisfying

Sip – drink taking only a small amount at a time

Draught – a single act of drinking

Generous – kind

Copiously - plentifully

Past calculation – which cannot be calculated

Disadvantaged - in need

Deprived – underprivileged

Unprivileged – lowly/poor

Witness – see

Luxuriant - flourishing

Vegetation – prosperity/happiness

Magnanimous - generous

Benevolent – caring

Upright – honest/just

Moksha – salvation

Bottomless - never-ending

Fathomless – immeasurable

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 17.03.2018

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WHEN WILL STOP THE VIOLATION OF A LADY'S MODESTY?

WHEN WILL STOP THE VIOLATION OF A LADY’S MODESTY?

Alas! Violation of a lady’s invaluable modesty,
Is more violent than dreadful, virulent violence.
Toying with a lady’s much treasured dignity,
Is most inhuman, bestial, brutish and non-sense.

Alas! Violation kills an innocent lady’s chastity,
It suffocates her, stabs at her much valued purity.
It turns her life an unending curse, burns her alive.
Ah! Lust’s wanton prey chars her unique Virginity Hive!

She bears deep, incurable wounds until her last breath,
In her prime of life she prefers a much relieving death!
Lo! The carnal predators ever prowl and growl at large,
Her yearning for Justice is worse than a peevish mirage!

Then, how long will continue this cruel waspish practice?
How long will a lady beg and beseech for due Justice?
How long will the Law be a gagged, wretched spectator?
How long will prevail this heinous, nefarious dictator?

Ever since, a lady, the most endangered tortured species,
Jeoparadized for lack of priceless, platonic male courtesies.
Has been hoping against hope for a  timely Divine Intervention!
Who else can, except God, grant her such a long sought Emancipation?

©Shankar D Mishra   16 .03.2018

TO THE MELODIOUS CUCKOO!

• TO THE MELODIOUS CUCKOO!

Yes, you prove Shakespeare cent percent wrong,
With your customary, dulcet and captivating song;
Amidst the concrete jungle’s raucous, rasping cacophony,
You retain your unhampered, celestial, enchanting symphony!

How loud, uninterrupted, clear and joyous your tone is,
How transparent and transcendental your message is,
How touching, sweet and soothing your cooh, cooh echo is,
How much my unrestrained, discomfited heart pleased is!

Today, I heard you at a composed, placid chirpy dawn,
I hear you in the deafeningly honking, noisy afternoon.
Ah! Unable am I to deduce your supra-mundane language,
That lessens my terrestrial burdens, and does assuage,
The nagging worries my unbridled unrefined mind carries,
And transform ‘the same wandering’ with no more queries!

Oh! How you heal all my niggling pains with your mesmerizing Musics
For, convinced I am, it is one of God’s miraculous, melodious Magics!

* the same wandering-mind

N.B: I am quoting Shakespeare’s view regarding the unimpressive sound of the Nightingale in the noisy cackling of the goose.

MERCHANT OF VENICE, ACT IV, SCENE -1

PORTIA: “The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,
When neither is attended: and I think
The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.”

©Shankar D Mishra   16 .03.2018
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LET’S SEEK THE EVER PROTECTIVE DIVINE HOOD!

LET’S SEEK THE EVER PROTECTIVE DIVINE HOOD!

No other shield is as secure as the Hood of Divinity,

No other boon is as big as the kind Divine Magnanimity!

No other help on Earth is as effective as the Divine succor,

For, without Divine intervention, nothing does ever occur!

No other roof is as safe as the unyielding Divine Protection,

No other blessing is as efficacious as the Divine Benediction!

No other excuse is as foolproof as the Divine condonation,

No other profit is as valuable as the Divine Realization!

 No other joy is as permanent as the eternal Divine Ecstasy,

No one else can bestow upon as much peace as the Divine Bliss!

Nothing else can prove as Panacean as the Elysian Divine Mercy,

Yes, humble submission to the Almighty is the best ever Policy!

Let’s solemnly seek to be blessed with an ever protective Divine Hood,

Else, futile is the birth, despite every other thing, miss we It ever should!

N.B: Miss we It ever should – Should/If we ever miss It. [Divine Protection]

Glossary:

Hood – covering

Boon – advantage/gain

Divine – related to God

Magnanimity - generosity

Succour - help

Intervention - involvement

Occur - happen

Unyielding – firm/ unbending

Efficacious - effective

Benediction – blessing

Foolproof - infallible

Condonation –an act of excusing/forgiving

Eternal - everlasting

Ecstasy – joy/delight

Bestow upon - confer upon

Bliss - happiness

Panacean – related to the cure for all diseases

Elysian - heavenly

Mercy – pity

Submission – surrender

Solemnly  - earnestly/ sincerely

Seek for - look for

Else - otherwise

Futile – useless

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 16.03.2018

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