TO THE JASMINE OF MY LIFE

TO THE JASMINE OF MY LIFE

The more, thy lovely look, my elated eyes  behold,
The more joyous shine it doth emit like pure gold!
A world of eternal Ecstasy before me, it doth then unfold,
Ah! My heart leaps lively, and leans fervently, it to hold!

Yes, even a chilling Winter can neither scare me nor shiver,
For, at the warmth of thy cosy company it doth soon scamper!
Oh! Thy honeyed tongue doth prompt me to forget the aching Sorrow-bite,
For, thou art b to me, indeed, a perennial source of my pain-sucking delight!

Oh! When thy sweet, pink and amorous lips  dost wink at my heart,
I get instantly enthused and energized to bring out the best of my part!
When thy silence, O the JASMINE of my life, doth caress me,
I am roused to reach out to thee like a jocund Stream!

Thus, I am greatly grateful to thee, O my  unmatched and unparalleled Bounty,
For, thou hast embellished and enriched my life with thy Aroma, Grace and Beauty!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra  30.11.18

Oh! As the closed petals of the Lotus open up and bloom,
With the awakening calls of the sincere Sun from above,
Your shining Face like a luminous halo removes my gloom,
And assures, to all my enigmatic puzzles, sort out soon and solve!

Your calm and cool composure, like that of the shy Moon,
Teaches me all the symphonies of Mozart to hum and croon,
Rehearses with me all the Indian Classical Dances to dance,
Rekindles in me a desire adore you with a melody performance!

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TODAY

TODAY

Today, the birthday of a son is, with pomp and pageantry, celebrated,
Even before the wedding of the engaged couple is due to be held;
India's Cricket Team Captain, with the honour of Man of the Tournament, is felicitated,
Even much before the ensuing Cricket World Cup is about to be played!

Today, Veracity is grilled and tried,
In the illegitimate Court of Preposterity;
Ah! Honesty and Rectitude are fried,
On the red and irrational Pan of Falsity!

Today, Virtue is vehemently kicked,
Under the violent Feet of Vice;
While Injustice is praised and peaked,
In the Domain of ill gotten Power and Price!

Today, Humility is a hapless Chicken,
In the Offensive Abattoir of Oppression;
While smothered Simplicity is sunken,
In the stinky Gutter of Exploitation!

Today, Liberty is a shackled and suffocated Slave,
Inside the inhuman and unscrupulous Enclave;
Though the higher does one endeavour to fly,
At the lower bottom one's Dreams shattered lie!

Today, Peace is fiercely festered,
In the Prison of Violence and brutality;
Conscience is piercingly pestered,
With the whip of Indecency and Vulgarity!

Today, money is the means to measure and Gauge,
Muscles seize Powers; Flattery and Influence snatch applause!
Humanity is a stifling Captive in the doorless and Cruel Cage,
The way of the Day is to ignore and crush one's own solemn Pledge!

Today, Mouths are replaced with deadly Arms,
Serenity and Harmony with disruptive Storms;
Beauty is scaled and measured in Kilos and Grams,
Alas! Wounds are treated to heal with incurable Harms!

Today, Flesh is worshipped at the cost of Morality,
In the Bestial Brothels of Lust and Sense Gratification;
Ah! At the stake of Rationality, Continence and Fidelity,
Scorching all the Shames are weighed Vanity and Fashion!

Today, Proper Nouns wear the Boots,
Common Nouns put on the Caps;
Plants flourish and prosper without roots,
And 'Nothings' replenish the the invisible Gaps!

Today, blossom on the coloured lips, countless sham smiles,
Laws without Executions do adorn the Court libraries and office Files;

Undeserving Hands do grasps Awards in questionable Styles,
Those, who can't even walk, win Laurels for crossing the Marathon miles!

Today Solace, like Perfumes, pumped off the fair Skin,
A needle is substituted for a piece of Pin;
Gems are treasured in a dusty and destitute Dust-bin,
Expensive detergents are used to rinse
and cleanse the rigid Sin!

Today, you must be skilled enough to chatter, cheat and gab,
Else, you will lag behind the rest; and will fall helplessly flat;
Vanity and ostentation are universally a Fab,
And to be diplomatic and hypocritic is to be wise and smart!

Today, Religion is an easy and accessible Excuse,
For the war Mongers and the frantic Fanatics;
They are born to inflame the atmosphere and misuse,
Power and Position for narrow profits by nasty Politics!

Today, battles, broils and wars are won,
With the weapons of deceit and sycophancy;
Myriad miserly volunteers are honoured,
For their wondrous and generous reluctancy!

Today, discipline is deadly dented with the Axes of Executions,
On the plinth of Autocracy and Anarchy are built the civilized Nations!
Patriotism is adjudged on the basis of Treachery and Treason,
True Martyrs are those who fight not, but  put the country in a prison!

Today, Nectar brims up to the human vessels' edges,
But, the insides of the hearts abound with drosses and dredges;
Societies stand on the strongest pretext Peg,
Substance and Solidarity are replaced by Vapours and Vagues!

Today, Teaching and Learning have hardly any bearings,
Upon both of their actions, characters and demeanours;
The former discharge, Latter receive only for luxurious Livings,
Both lead grad life Styles without having personal Grandeurs!

The scrumptious diet of Today is Mendacity,
Deadly Deception is the prime Duty;
The only Truth that prevails everywhere is Futility,
Illusive hallucinations are a steady source of Serenity!

Today, wild eyes cast dull, dreary and distorted visions,
Credulous hearts are trapped with seasoned Temptations;
Roam and prowl, nights and days, the lusty and vigorous Horses,
But, alas, they reach the hateful Hells due to the Innocent Victims' Curses!

Today, those who backbite their bosses, and piss,
Where they take shelter for respite, and dine;
They rise like the morning Sun, and never their Success train miss,
They are ceaselessly lauded by the fans who give them Ten out of Nine!

Today, those who shout "Mera Bharat Mahan!"
Regrettably, take to their heels to settle in Lands Foreign;
When they feel hampered their petty profits and narrow personal gain,
They leave forever Mother and Motherland, the so called "Greater than Heaven!"

Today, Terrorism, Extremism and Communalism are fostered, fattened and perpetuated,
Under the cloaks of Patriotism, Crusade and National Liberty;
To get knowledge, Mobiles, Social-Media, for books and schools, are substituted,
Fast Food complements human nutrients; UREA, pesticides Soil's fertility!

In an enchanting and enticing chorus all they say,
And chant "Kam Nam Ki Satya Hai!"
And all are armed for and enamoured of the same prey,
There are very few who are not in the mad and wild fray!

The colour of Today is beautifully bleak and dazzlingly Dark,
The way of living, in a nutshell, is Loose enough and Slack;
Apples of discord and Sodom bear the barren Parks,
The dead people tender Votes; Watchdogs neither bite nor bark!

Today, Simplicity is sliced with the pretentious Sword of Complexity,
Illusion inculcates and substantiates the significance of Reality;
Infidelity and Betrayal teach the Sweet Taste of Integrity,
Miserliness and Evanescence preach the Value of Generosity and Perpetuity!

Today, artificial, appealing and entrapping tears are tactfully shed,
To buy deluxe flight tickets; attend night clubs; and earn rich bread!
To procure the Certificates and jobs of one's own choicest Grade,
Powers and positions are misused; flesh is served and black money is paid!

Today, books are praised and authors extolled as inspiring without being read,
Green foods are exhorted most as healthy and nutritious without being cooked and fed!
Tramps, rogues and vagabonds are applauded as well cultured and thoroughbred,
The paths of the saints are showered with flowers even if none is ever known to tread!

Thus, the multi-coloured Face of Today is past description,
Maintaining Self-esteem and Self-restraint is the best Solution;
Not being swayed by the hollow Fads and shallow Sensation,
One can retain Peace, maintain Equilibrium and attain Liberation!

Copyright © Dr. Shankar D Mishra, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 

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WHAT AN INSULATOR THOU WERT!

WHAT AN INSULATOR THOU WERT!

Ah! For long, I had been looking forward for:
Thy Pulse to pulsate,
Thy Nerve to vibrate,
Thy Heart to throb,
Thy Verve to verb,
Thy lips to quiver,
Thy Feet to stagger,
Thy Eyes to twinkle,
Thy Romance to sprinkle,
Thy Head to nod,
Thy Emotions to flood,
Thy Being to reply,
Thy Beckons to fly:
What my awaiting feeling perceived, penetrated and yearned!

But, alas! I discovered after a long lustreless expedition,
In the restless Region of my Eager Self;
That thou wert altogether too impenetrable  an Insulator,
To receive any Emotional Current,
Although it passed through thy Vicinity incessantly,
Discharged out of my unfortunate, frenzied Heart's Substation!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra   28.11.18

MUMBAI

MUMBAI

Mumbai - the Economic Capital of the country,
Feeds crores of bellies on Its thickly thronged plateau,
And those of countless adjacent to the remotest places,
Draws the concourses every fraction of a second towards It!

"No less than a rotten carcass to the greedy and gluttonous,
Beasts, flies, ants and insects and those who relish and live on it,"
Who like those non humans howl, growl, screech, buzz, yell and yelp,
Over grabbing a sounder share by whatever means they can apply!

The Local Train commuters are, here, of two sorts:
The first ones are like the hot, choked Vadas of the so-called Mumbai Pav,
And the second ones are like the haughty, doughty and dominating Lions;
No sooner does a day dawn, than It blares like a Tempest,
Its chimneys spew like a volcano, and besmear the air like a T.B patient!

Still none quits It!
Sometimes, It chuckles for being a Cosmopolitan haven,
But, It often sighs for being misused for Its simplicity and munificence,
And beseeches to God to pay a timely, favourable heed to Its helplessness!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 28.11.18

QUOTE OF D DAY, 28.11.18

the rest!

the rest!

Do they attain Lasting Rest,
Being the Bigwigs' hired guests,
Stripping off their unchaste chests,
Tantalizing the Viewers by their tempting baits?

Don't they really forget their lives' Prime Goals,
While they toy with their Physiques, stifling their Souls?
Were they born on Earth only to gamble and dole,
Digging within their Conscience many a deadly hole?

Aren't they sowing then baneful Seeds,
Indulging from dawn to dawn in despicable deeds,
Rekindling adultery, igniting universally the carnal greeds,
Promptly giving birth to wanton promiscuous breeds?

Then, how to curb this nocuous and Peccable pollution?
What is then its safer and surer solution?
The only Measure is to restrain a 'Bestial Passion',
Waging Public Oppositions against a 'Nudity Fashion'

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra     27.11.18

THE HEART'S ECHO OF MAMITA MEHER

THE HEART'S ECHO OF MAMITA MEHER
What wilt thou, o the vulgar dealers, demand and respond then,
When the shadows of deathly Silence, o the insensitive and Insane,
Dost crawl slyly on thy obscene and obnoxious Organs,
That sovereigned fearlessly the frenzied, carnl World once?

Alas! Lounging idly and shamefully in a desert of Seclusion,
Thou wilt then tear thy shabby hair, and rend thy bleeding heart;
Wilt trickle torrents of tears of  remorse and self-denunciation,
Trying, ah, in vain, to defecate thy youthful and regrettable dirt!

For, thou wilt then ruminate on and ponder over thy spent heydays,
When thou didst dedicate naught, but a burden, to thy Mother land,
That Crowned thee; instead, thou sprayed the harmful Ultraviolet Rays,
Of Lust, Vulgarity, Passion, perversity, adultery, deterioration, and.....!

Then thy  punishable pretext of Fashion will evanish, in Life's Race
With the touch of an inescapable surly, sullen and severe blast,
Thou wilt, with curled tails, flee to hide thy leaning and loathsome Face,
For the unforgivable Sins of thy forgettable and regrettable Past!

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Quote of the day: 27.11.18

DIWALI

DIWALI                               

Comes Diwali every year accompanied by Diya light,
Reminds all Lord Shri Ram’s return after winning Lanka fight!

Smiles blossom on every lip,
Grown ups gambol, and children skip,
Flowers dance, while leaves pipe,
Wow! Meadows wear a golden stripe,
Students embark upon pleasant trips,
Lo! Joys are stored  in harmonious heaps!

Mother prepares different delicious dishes,
Children relish sweets, and wear new dresses,
They light Diyas, and burst crackers,
Yes, all glories go to the miraculous Maker’s!

Soon, alas! The happy Diwali bids us all a sad goodbye,
And, teaches to illuminate, like Diyas, before, forever, we lie!

Copyright: Dr. Shankar D Mishra, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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My sweetened tongue covers well my unnoticed rancorous and soured heart!

Drinking without thirst,
Dining without hunger,
Loving without trust,
Is like singing without a singer!

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In the House of One's Self, One may live either with One's Friend of Virtue, or with One's Foe of Vice, or with Both of Them!

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Alas! I am a born Shylock to weigh every relation on a scale of Profit!

I have reduced my Love for you, for many love you as much as I; more love you more than I; and the rest in the world love you most!

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My  Ignorance affirms me that I had always beenWise, whereas my Wisdom confirms me that I had always been Ignorant!

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Friendship is built on the plinth of mutual understanding.

When Trust is taken for granted, and misued "Friendship" turns "Fiendship"!

True friends are those who are neither self-centered nor desirous of receiving Favours!

Feeling friends' situations and not doubting them is the first step of friendship.

A mam without any Foresight is Blind, and a man without any Insight is a Beast!

Yes, I am infallibly skilled enough to beat a crore of Chameleons in changing colours in every factions of a second!

Who always remembers God, and prays to Him as much earnestly in Comfort and prosperity as in Misery and Prosperity?

I always take myself credit when I succeed, but, alas, I always blame God when I am a Failure!

I always think my own faults lie farther than the Apogee of my Eyes, while the faults of others lie closer than the Perigee of my Eyes!

Oh! The Pupils of are always wide awake to find Faults with others!

Silence may stand for either agreement or Disagreement.

When an insignificant Water Particle falls into a significant Sea, it is neither audible nor noticeable.

Which one is harder to resist: the pull of Sense Pleasure, or the push of Material Treasure?

Which one is stronger: the grip of Greed, or the clip of List?

The Divine Net is so Long, Wide and Strong that no human Fish can either jump over It or cut It to escape himself from the firm hold of God!

Who are the real Patriots of the country, "Who are paid in Crores, or who pay in Scores, to attend a National Event like the Inaugural Ceremony of Hockey World Cup, in Odisha?

Will your listen and accept, if says a Leech, "Sucking blood is a Sin, I will preach.": or downright ridicule and reject?
How will you react, if swears a Pirate, "I won't plunder, but gift and donate.": will you hug Him or hate?
What will you do with a Cat, if He says, "I will fry Fish, Meat and Fat.": strike Him with a bat or with a palm pat?

Exposure expedites one's fast Perfection, for It removes Fear and Nervousness; and instils courage; and enhances Enthusiasm to give one's Best at the earliest!
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Toil waters the Plant of Prosperity to bear fruit in life's Soil!
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One is d Maker or Wrecker of one's own Destination!
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We must Perspire so as to Aspire as well as Inspire!
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A heartening Past is never Dead; a disheartening Present is never Alive!
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Neither do slumber nor lumber until u reach the Magic Number!
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Let's cultivate in the Field of Mind the Crops of Noble Fruits!
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Insensitive Souls always fail to feel what mistakes they commit!
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Determination, devotion & dedication determine one's Destination!
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Appreciation without appropriations is called flattery!
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A Motherly hunger to feed is what the world does need!
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The value of everything in paucity is always high!
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What r they called who pray to God in days and befriend Devils at nights?
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Even the darkest Cravens of falsehood r one day lighted by the ever vigilant Torch of Truth!
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A drop of deceit embitters a Pitcher of Trust forever!
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If u sour a Sea of Nectar, who will drink your draught of dirty water?
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Where ends the perception and power of man, there starts God's!
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A building of hundred storeys cannot be built on the plinth of a Reverie!
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The perseverance of the Perfidious fetches them the fruits of Futility!
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The Perpetrators perspire, in vain, to reap a proportionate penalty!
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To Swindle the Innocent is to Dwindle the SAINT in You!
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A Palace, impoverished by Turmoil, is worse than a Hut, enriched with Peace!
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Accept people's applause as well as condemnation with equal care!
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A relation without reciprocation is like a defunct Engine without function!
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The echo of Silence reaches farther than that of a Noise!
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Necessity necessitates Affability; Affability consolidates Affinity!
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Even the firmest hAVENS of uNTRUTH r often seen crumbling like domes of sand!
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It's better to live laughing in a Hell than to lie languishing in a Heaven!
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Addiction is like the Root of a Lotus. The faster u uproot it, the quicker it grows!
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Betrayal is such a Hemlock, that sweetens your Tongue, but poisons your Heart!
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Night is a Heaven for a nOCTURNAL aNIMAL, who slumbers throughout the day!
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Falsehood always ejaculates a  Temporary Relief and Pleasure!
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Under the unsafe Hoods of falsehood, lies always a self-devouring Snake of Truth!
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A professional liar, like a professional killer, never repents, for both r sincere in their professions!
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Who to blame, to one's  Selection or Luck, if one's
 choice proves wrong?
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Silence is the Panacea to cure all d mental disorders!
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A shrewd Fool's best Tool always befools himself!
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One can't hide Oneself from one's and Time's Vigil!
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One's Habits, not nATURE, can b changed forever!
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The course of FORCE is:
Ferocious, Offensive,Repulsive, Cancerous and Evanescent!
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Dear parents, this is for your kind information that I am going to conduct a free Demo class on ICSE English Grammar for only an hour on 1st March, Sunday at your convenient time. The place of the class depends on your choice. Hope, your kid will avail himself/herself of this golden opportunity.
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Both Carbon-Dioxide and Corruption Help: d Former help d Trees, our Benefactors; & d Latter, d Devils,our Bane-Factors!
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I feel it not an exaggeration to call Internet "The Kamadhenu, & Kalpavriksha of Kaliyug!"
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It is not always that Cost determines the Value of a thing!
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Had d Horse Sense, it didn't mistake that Frost had halted in d woods without Sense!
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All the Religions are a Ladder to reach Heaven!
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Intelligence used for  foul and fruitless purposes is a Curse in disguise!
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A Culprit, with remorse and humility, not arrogance and obstinacy, may deserve Pity and pardon!
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Justice twisted means Justice suffocated!
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Had Law been exercised cent percent everywhere, and every time; the Earth would have been a Heaven!
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Surrender before Greed heads one to ruination; but
Surrender before God leads one to Salvation!
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Control over Eyes is as important as control over Tongue!
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He who substitutes "Ego" for 'Self-esteem',  mistakes Purgatory as Heaven!
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Revenge is d sharpest Weapon of the Wildest; but, forgiveness of the Mildest!
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Who is more useful between a Strong Enemy & a Weak Friend?
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Whom will You choose: an Unjust Friend and a Just Enemy?
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O that, one were to bribe less than one's hard earned robbed wealth to b recovered!
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O that, I could retain the same Mentality while buying as well as selling!
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Had Cunningness been Sagaciousness, d number of Einsteins would have increased!
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Which one is more Condemnable: Jailing d Just, or Bailing d Unjust?
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The Buoy of Truth can never  b drowned under the Water of Falsehood!
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Oh! I'm always hurrier than anyone else at a Traffic Post, or in a Queue for anything!
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Every Reaction has some corresponding Action too!
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In a hot Bowl of Mind, Cool thoughts r start boiling to Evaporate soon!
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Let me never buy a Bugle to blow my own glorification!
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In a Scale, light objects always hang high!
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Prayer purifies one's thoughts and actions!
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Prayer pours Peace, Bliss and Ecstasy!
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The black Smokes of Anger Blinds one's Vision, Suffocates one's Breath & Kills one's Senses!
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What is d gain of an Innocent Sufferer, if d Unprovoked Tormentor faces d Music?
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Writing in the Social Media and fighting in the Battle Field r diametrically 2 different Things!
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D Stab of an Enemy is less Painful than d Distrust of Friends!
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Unless the Excrements of Thoughts are released out of one's Mind, It will surely cease to function!
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Crowns don't become on the undeserving Heads of the Mokeys!
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One, wearing a pair of opaque Glasses, cannot expect to see anything Right!
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One cannot be entirely Good or entirely Bad for All.
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Forgetfulness is a Boon, If It assuages one's Pain! Memory is a curse, if It Showers Sorrow Rain!
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No Lock in the world is Secure enough to conceal the Truth forever!
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No Lock in the world is Secure enough to conceal the Truth forever!
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No Culprit ever escapes unstung from the Impartial Fang  of the vigilant Snake of Time!
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The Judgment, that suits me Most, is the Best Judgment for!
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What should we call the 'Land', inhabited by the Altruists alone?
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A Home costs more than a Palace, if Peace always there prevails!
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Not a drop of Tear is shed at the Death of a Mosquito!
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Absolutely right, dear Mam. I am quoting a stanza of my poem written in Odia: Mu  Ka'n Aadhunika Maanaba?

Am I A Modern Human Being?

Aadhunika Juge  sata  bhumistha mu  heli,
Sabhyataara sugunaru dure  mu  rahili,
Antara  mo  puratana,
Rupa ta nutana khaali!

True, In an Age of Modernity I am born,
I am still away from Civilization;
I am still a primitive man,
Though there is only an outward Evolution!
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Tq mam for yr coincidental creation.

Better unfollow those Relations which are either Husky or Hollow!
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A burnt Dish, is never for a Tongue, so delicious a Bliss!
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In Love, there is no place for anything, that is like culling the feelings of a Lover!
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Cautious and repentant minds never repeat the same blunder under d plea of Ignorance!
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Loose minds, like the greedy Sharks, are easily tempted by the Baits!
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Vegetarians do not visit a Slaughter House, as loyal Ladies don't frequent a brothel!
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Non-addicts r not found standing in d queue in front of a Tavern-Counter!
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The harder u scrub d softer fabric of a Heart, the harsher the hurts r forced to appear!
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One bows out of Regret, Remorse, Fear, Compulsion, Love, Respect, humility & Confession!
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Swallowing the Pain-relieving-Pill of Confession is not so easy as it seems!
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Waiting is the last Resort of all, where reign the Rules of the Almighty!
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Where Closeness gives Grief, there Distance is definitely a Relief!
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One's Work must adhere to one's Talk, else one will  prove oneself a laughing stock for all!
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One's Mistakes are as harmful as one's Germs,for neither of them spares One!
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Alas! Despite friendship with the Sacred Basil, the Brambles can never b used in worship!
@sdm 15.11.18
In the company of Coconuts, the same sweet water and kernel r not found in betelnuts!
@sdn 15.11.18
From the same Pond Both r born, but, alas! the Lily loves the Moon, while the Lotus, the Sun!
@sdm 15.11.18
Virtues are the Staffs of the Dead!
@sdm 15.11.18
Promises r made in Heaven to b broken on Earth!
@sdm 15.11.18
Children's Hearts r as pure and sacred as a Shrine!
Ah! D sweet water of Children-Springs gets Salty as it meets d Seas of d Grown-ups!
@sdm 15.11.18
O that, we all were children at Hearts forever!
@sdm 15.11.18
Even an Enemy's Children r not your Enemies!
@sdm 15.11.18
O Innocence! Thy name is Children.
@sdm 15.11.18
Who can coin a word for the One who can play well with the feelings
of one's Beloved?
@sdm 14.11.18
I always remember to forget my Oaths, for I hardly ever ponder over their Worths!
@sdm 14.11.18
Thieves sleep not at night for their gains, alas! the police pay thru their wakefulness pains!
@sdm 14.11.18
D slyest Thieves justify "We were just checking at dead of night if the Police were alert against us not!'
@sdm. 14.11.18
An Intaker of brown sugar, may stay without food, but not his daily dosage at regular intervals!
@sdm 14.11.18
A shameless mind, like the impenetrable Rhino Skin, receives no syringes of Semons!
@sdm 14.11.18
An uncontrolled mIND, like an unbridled hORSE, is ever restless to stray!
@sdm 14.11.18
Passwords are sometimes used like Contraceptive Pills to control the consequences!
@sdm 14.11.18
A sly and shrewd Smith can easily prove his iNNOCECE by blaming his able Tools!
@sdm 14.11.18
The loftiest Towers must be built on the deepest Plinths!
@sdm 13.11.18
D costliest Computer is d Brain; D costliest Engine is d Heart; & D costliest Virtue is Humanity.
@sdm 13.11.18
A torn blanket of Excuse can't  save one against the bitter buffets of harshest cold Waves!
@sdm 13.11.18
You can't bump your head on a piece of stone if it turns out to b your Luck!
@sdm 13.11.18
You can neither persist nor persuade one to Love you!
@sdm 13.11.18
Love is never a product of compulsion or compassion, but spontaneity!
@sdm 13.11.18
Fools always mistake in musing that they have fooled others!
@sdm 13.11.18
The best way to give an Example is to be an Example!
@sdm 11.11.18
Who can be trusted without being trustworthy?
@sdm 11.11.18
The sacred Plant of Love withers when the Termite of Treachery, all Its Roots, cuts!
@sdm 11.11.18
Until mingle into one 2 Souls, a Nuptial Tie is indeed a distant Goal!
@sdm 11.11.18
Between 2 true hearts, there is no scope for doubt or treachery!
@sdm 11.11.18
Today veracity is tried in d court of preposterity,
Honesty, rectitude r fried on d pan of falsity!
A Cynosure Of English Poems
One cannot scale the Summit of Everest without Will & Endeavour!
@sdm 11.11.18

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?*

How often and how long,
Wilt thou - (May thy tribes decrease!)
Sing thy sham, hackneyed and sympathetic song,
And extend vain compensation after a blast Series?

How long wilt thou fool and bamboozle,
With thy cunning and diplomatic rhetorics,
Thy identitical dirty and dregy politics,
And make this plague chronic and incurable?

What for then is our sharp Intelligence?
What for then is our dexterous Defense?
What for then are our multifunctional Missiles?
What for then are our vigilat Police and Court Files?

Thus, may their bloods shake thy spines,
May their plights relent thy nerves,
May their tears rouse thy false fleeting whines!
Or else, a Day will descend to differentiate:
"To be sympathied with is too hard to tolerate!"

N.B. This poem is based on the Assam bomb blast that killed sixty odd innocent people, in 2010.

TO THE STALWART STUDENTS

TO THE STALWART STUDENTS

Congrat! O the praiseworthy, stalwart students,
You strived sincerely for the feats your souls and hearts,
We extended our due props, and played inculcating parts,
Which fetched you dignified and glorious flashes of Success!

Success is, surely, a sweet and frabjyous Fruit,
That swings smiling on the humble stems of labour,
It relishes the Deserts, and showers cheers on the Sculptors,
It stirs the Victors to repeat it by virtue of endeavours!

May you progress and prosper with an unceasing pace,
May Success kindle you to ever lead the rest in life's uphill Race,
May you be many a Viswanath Anand in life's perplexing Chess,
May always accompany you the blessings of the kind Fortune Goddess!

This much, the stalwart students, we wish for you,
"Fructify you then our Dreams, being One amongst the Few!"

A PRAYER FOR MY MOTHER

A PRAYER FOR MY MOTHER

O God! Never dost Thou sever, from me, my Mother, a Pearl!
In spite of being Her life many a miserable slice,
She does continue to persevere, serve and sacrifice,
Garbs she Her all scary scars underneath Her
tortured Soul,
Accomplishing all assignments with an exceeding Miracle!

She is an eternal Abode of Relief and Peace,
She exudes Her unreluctant and unending Compassion,
She knows neither intolerance nor discrimination,
Thus, who will bear a moment, her lavish care, to miss?

Undoubtedly, She is an unusual Idol as a generous breeze,
Unperturbed, even though, you often irritate Her or tease,
Unaffordable and inimitable Her selfless sacrifice is!
O God! Thus, never dost Thou sever Her from us, please,
For, She is the sole Source of comfort, for our grief, to appease!

IF ONLY IT WERE A DISPASSIONATE URGE!

IF ONLY IT WERE A DISPASSIONATE URGE!

Of course, not a mere few,
Drooped to devotion betel chew,
Only to spit and make lips crimson hue,
Pay what is meant not for the perpetual dew!

Most those who converge,
Float, yet, don't inwardly submerge,
Feign to rinse, but fail to purge,
The sins accumulated by the sensual buzz!

To evade the 'Birth-Death Cycles', in vain, dodge,
Alas! They cannot secure an Elysian Lodge,
For, fear, anxiety and apprehension charge,
But, if only it were a Dispassionate Urge!

MELANCHOLY OF A PECCABLE SOUL!

MELANCHOLY OF A PECCABLE SOUL!

In the mental jungle of mine,
A Satan, sometimes, snatches the bridle of Reason,
Intrudes forcibly to sway over It the malign,
And dictates me to head towards a Province of Sin!

Entering the coveted, fake and hollow Province,
When, feel I nowhere, the preconceived Gleam,
I begin cursing myself, in vain, for the inclination Vice,
But, to no use, for, never does look back a speeding Stream!

MIRAGE HUNT

MIRAGE HUNT

The irresistible carnal hunt,
Ever ignites the Savage Hunter,
And quenches his obsession blunt!
The more he runs, the more does he bray,
As the hunt itself moves away to taunt,
Befool and teach the poor pursuer to sway,
In the hallucinative haven of shadows to daunt,
And inhabit a Realm of unreality, not far away!

I HAVE STILL BEEN WAITING FOR THAT DIWALI NIGHT.

I HAVE STILL BEEN WAITING FOR THAT DIWALI NIGHT.

Oh ! I have still been waiting for that delightful Diwali night,
When there will be no dark fumes of crackers but Diya light;
There will be no grave growls and heinous howls of noise-nuisance-Devils,
There will be no more hazardous, polluted pleasures and man made toxic Evils!

Oh ! I have still been waiting for that delicious Diwali night,
When the rampant ignorance will no longer put Knowledge in plight;
When the real sense of celebration is no longer spoilt by explosions,
When there will be no more tormenting the vital Ozone Layer's erosions !

Oh ! I have still been waiting for that harmless Diwali night,
When there will no more be the reigns of deafening Ogres at sight;
When there will be a much relieving release of the choked Nature,
When men will be ecstatic by ending others' pain by lending heavenly rapture !

Thus, let's all say 'No' to a wild and destructive Diwali celebration,
Let's illuminate, like Diyas,  for a long and sound life of the whole creation !

Copyright: Dr. Shankar D Mishra 02.11.2021

I KNOW NOT WHY!

I KNOW NOT WHY!

I know not why a hidden shiver in my arteries and veins awakes,
Why the whole of my being, out of a fatal fright, convulsively quakes,
Why the peace and quietude of my mind tumultuously rakes,
As, during Diwal nights, man Nature's Solace recklessly wrecks !

I know not why a concealed fear pricks my sound heart's throbs,
All the Rays of hopes are extinguished, as the toxic smoke robs,
Under its suffocating swirls, the age old Diwali elations,
As most mar the real motive of Diwali by mad, frenzied explosions !

I know not why a familiar scorching scar scares again,
Reminding me of the irreparable previous losses and fresh pains,
Questioning my Psyche "How the silliest man be called sane,
Who burns billions , charring pearly peace invites only acid rains?"

I know not when these wild celebrations will permanently halt,
When will man will to return to reality rectifying his fulsome fault,
When will have the win of 'Enlightenment Lights' over  'Ignorance Darkness',
When will man, to redeem himself, realise and follow his long slumbering Sense?

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra  13.11.18

LET'S CELEBRATE DIWALI MORE SENSIBLY!

LET'S CELEBRATE DIWALI MORE SENSIBLY!

As the much awaited Diwali nights come closer,
Revelry readies to reign the country's every nook and corner!
Alas! Rushes rashly, bounding, vicious and vanishing pleasures,
Of bursting rumbling and spine shivering varied fire crackers!

But, I know not since when crackers have replaced the auspicious Diya-lights,
Since when we have been extracting from them darkening and deadly delights,
Since when we have been weighing our status by blasting the mounds of crackers,
Since when we have become our kind Nature's serenety and equilibrium wreckers?

Alas! When will know our ignorant and jubilant posterity?
"Exploding nerve-shattering crackers is not the real prosperity!
Diwali stands not for the inhuman noise and poise pollution,
Diwali is "A Festival of Lights"; epitomizes "All Evils' Elimination!"

Let's thus not turn our festive Diwali into a poisonous curse in disguise,
Let's celebrate It being more sensible, sense-oriented and wise!
Unless, we, while rejoicing, listen to the judicious calls of conscience,
We must then brace ourselves to face the music of a venomous consequence!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 05.11.2018

REMEMBERING DHYAN CHAND

REMEMBERING DHYAN CHAND

Oh! Dhyan Chand rose like a Meteor in the sky of Indian Hockey:
Whose pivotal presence on the Field made India proud and lucky,
Whose dribbling and goal scoring feats fetched Her Gold medals thrice in Olympics,
Who stunned Hitler, and Bradman by his magical hands' mavericks!

Yes, no other Chand so luminous had risen before, nor will rise again,
No mundane Laurel could equal his sportsmanship spirit, patriotism and pain!
Ah! A wonderous wizard with 1000 + National and International goals under his name,
Being sent to a general ward in AIIMS for Liver Cancer, was no less a nagging National Shame!

Alas! A rarest of the rare World Ratna in the realm of Hockey, could not be Bharat Ratna!
A Sorcerer in Hockey wasn't allowed to a stadium to watch a match for lack of recognition,
The son of a Scion of Mother India was, for the Moscow Olympics, sadly forgotten!
Yes, he had truly foretold, "The world, not India, will shed tears over my cremation!"

So, may Chad's contributions not be buried beneath the ingrate tomb of oblivion,
May his name ever be sincerely engraved upon every Indian heart, home and stone!

Information courtesy: Google
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 29.08.20