HOW REAL THE MODERN MAN'S LOVE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?

HOW REAL THE MODERN MAN'S LOVE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?

Oh! Our sham Love and phony Concerns for the Environment is so much,
That for a bed or a door, we either cut a Eucalyptus, or a Teak tree touch!
We substitute soil spoiling urea in place of Compost, for fast, abundant Yields,
And we fondly poison with the deadly pesticides our ever venerable Fields!

Oh! So much our forged Love and feigned Affection for the Environment is,
That we wantonly hunt the animals and birds for food as well as for infinite pleasure!
To construct a solid concrete and tiled jungle we mercilessly fell countless tress,
We erase hills and mountains by bombing and bulldozing as we shave with a razor!

Oh! We have so much pseudo Love for and hollow Affinity with the Environment,
That we can't spare Fridge, Flight, DJ for a second, for comfort and entertainment!
To be the Super Powers, we exhaust the mines; manufacture the ghastliest weapons,
And ever purify the Rivers, Seas and Oceans with the sewage and affluent in tons!

Whose Love for the Environment can then be more real than the Modern Humans'?
Who else can match Man's platonic Romance with the Environment even in an ounce!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 05.06.2021

THE SHOE MENDER

THE SHOE MENDER

Far away from the tangled World's complex caprice and care,
Sits the solitary Shoe Mender on a city's worn-bridge-ledge;
Whether it's a day like any other ordinary day, or a special fair,
From morn till night only on his honest toil he lays his eyes rare!

Throughout the year, without any rest, in the host Sun and the moist Rain,
Above the suffocating and nauseating stink of the muttering drain,
He, either mends one's a pair of sandals now,  or cleans another's shoes' stain then,
Nevertheless, unlike most millionaires, he sucks bliss honey from his sweat pain!

For, his heart, unlike his hands, is as  neat and transparent as Purity,
His thoughts are ever much past the mundane mean malignity,
His actions are never, like many of ours, despicable and duplicate,
Ah! Like a Lotus of the bogs, a content Silver, he does replicate!

Alas! Had the world been the slightest shadow of his magnanimity,
The mankind would not have to fight against  corruption, violence and poverty!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 30.07.19

LET'S NOT LOOT OUR MOTHER EARTH ANY LONGER!

LET'S NOT LOOT OUR MOTHER EARTH ANY LONGER!

Let's not loot our Mother Earth any more and any longer!
Who can be to us so generous a Benefactor?
Who can extend to us so much pure Love and free care?
Why are we then inexcusably so harsh and cruel towards Her?

It's high time, we stopped erasing the mountains of Her Wealth,
We ceased squeezing Her green Oxygen Cylinder's vital Health,
We stopped turning Her glass fields and croplands into dry deserts,
We ceased polluting the water bodies, and spoiling Her heavenly Resorts!

Unless we mend our ignominious and ominous ways,
We will perish faster than the most gigantic dinosaurs, by the Sun's scorching Rays!
We will vanish from the Earth's crust by the fierce and fulsome Floods,
We will disappear being beheaded by rushing Natural Disasters' inescapable Swords!

Thus, the ball is in our court, whether not to unduly take Nature for granted,
Else, we'll be razed from the Earth, as from a garden, the weeds unwanted!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 29.07.19

A SMILE

A SMILE

A chaste Smile is the best ever gift,
That can we share among all;
For, It costs nothing, being the costliest Pearl,
That turns the bitterest hostility into fraternity removing every rift!

A sweet Smile removes the poison of Anger,
It exorcises the evil Spirits of Animosity and Rancour,
It cajoles contradictory minds to come closer and understand one another,
It builds Trust; develops Harmony; and invites Affinity under all weather!

An innocent Smile showers life upon a desert land - dry, dull and barren,
It washes away the dirts of the Hearts and polishes the minds' sinful stain,
It does energize the weak, enlighten the dull; and the lifeless enliven,
It turns an ignoble hELL into a beautiful HEAVEN!

Let's, thus, cultivate the Panacean seeds of Smile to spread Joy, Gaiety and Cheer,
And to have an efficacious Cure for the Diseases of Sorrow, Fear and Tear!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 29.07.19

AN EARNEST APPEAL TO THE DENIZENS OF THE WORLD! 26.07.19

AN EARNEST APPEAL TO THE DENIZENS OF THE WORLD!

O my dear denizens of the world,
Let's be our Mother Earth's sincerest caretakers,
Let's not be Her most ungrateful and rarest wreckers,
Let's more judiciously enjoy Her most generous gifts of gold!

O my intimate inhabitants of the globe,
Let's prove ourselves the worthiest trustees of Hers,
Who should not gluttonously consume Her Trust, and Her Hope rob,
To satisfy our insatiable thirst and hunger, and fill our bottomless purse!

O my bosom beneficiaries of the Cosmos,
Let's not wantonly misuse Her exhaustible natural resources,
Let's not waste Her Bounties indiscriminately to incur Her curse,
Let's be Her real stewards to avoid repercussions and remorses!

Thus, may my earnest appeal be heard to one and all,
Before it is too late to repent in vain, and forever fall!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 26.07.19

FATES OF THE FLOWERS

Some flowers bloom to adorn gods and goddesses,
When they turn divine incarnates to be born to bless,
When they are sought after to serve as a symbol of sacredness,
When they are stored by their devotees as a token of ethereal Solace!

Some other flowers blossom to be used to greet, honour or felicitate,
When they are offered in the forms of garlands, bouquets or wreaths,
When someone is appreciated for his worthy or honest sweat,
Or, when a martyr, for a noble cause of the country, no longer breathes!

Still, some other flowers fated to shine unseen,
Whose Beauty rots as if they had committed much sin,
Whose fragrance is not inhaled with glee and gratitude,
Whose life ends in a hell of wilderness, not in a heaven of human altitude!

Flowers and men are the same in many prominent and conspicuous ways,
Alas! The former accept their Fates humbly, while the latter defy their destined ways!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 24.07.19

YES, MAN HAS TO LEARN MUCH MORE FROM THE ANIMALS!

YES, MAN HAS TO LEARN MUCH MORE FROM THE ANIMALS!

Yes, man has to learn much more from the animals,
For, compassion falls from their hearts faster than the Victoria Falls,
They are more organized, more integrated and more loyal than man -
And vanity, hypocrisy, deception, jealousy and arms race have dwindled whose clan!

Yes, man has to follow the footsteps of the animals much more in many regards,
For, they never lie, or practise prejudices, or envy at fellow men' s success,
They never cut throats of the kith and kin pushing them into the holes of helplessness,
They, unlike man, against all odds, are their own shields and their own guards!

Yes, man has to respect the animals more than his immaterial materialism,
For, they neither run after beautiful bubbles, nor build in the space castles;
They never live in reveries, nor bribe to buy heroism, nationalist or secularism,
They never run to atone by dipping in the holy rivers, spoilt by their own unholy parcels!

Thus, unless man learns to practise the good, indispensable virtues of the animals,
He must dig the deepest ditches of his own Falls: this is what my Conscience calls!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 24.07.19

PATRIOTISM

PATRIOTISM

Patriotism is like the most vital and invigorating milk of a Mother,
That wells up spontaneously, for the nourishment, to suckle,
The selflessly serving children to stand tall against any rough weather,
And compel all the annoying adversities to perish forever and fall!

Patriotism is the very breath that indispensably needs a country,
To protect and sustain Herself against all antisocial elements' entry;
To heave long and lasting sighs of relief; and have still and sound sleeps,
To prevent communalisms, disruptions and turmoils from their evil peeps!

Alas! Without Patriotism a country becomes dead and defunct,
Her eternal Stream of Happiness seems  stagnant and compunct,
Her evergreen Tree of Peace and Harmony faces a cursed chaos and defoliation,
And Her Ocean of sweet Dreams becomes a dry Desert due to a hostile evaporation!

*Compunct - Conscience-stricken; affected with compunction or remorse

Thus, let patriotism prevail every nook and corner in the world,
So that treason will flee forever; and eternal Joy of the people will be manifold!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 24.07.19

TRUE LEADERS 22. 07. 19

TRUE LEADERS

True leaders are, without a speck of doubt, those,

Who always lead from the front,

For the commoners' interests, they come to the front,

And dare swim against the violent current that inevitably flows!

True leaders are the rarest devotees of selfless duty,
They steadfastly worship the Deity of Responsibility,
They, by virtue of their virtuous deeds, prove themselves of great utility,
They, never for their cheap personal profits, resort to perishable futility!

True leaders never push the people into the gorges of despair by betrayal,
They ever come out with flying colours, in the test of Loyalty, and Rectitude's Trial,
They ever leave the least scopes for the niddle of suspicion to point towards them,
They live on the Service like Teresa, die for needy, crushing personal gain, name or fame!

Alas! Unless the Leaders fail to retain the aforesaid essential attributes,
They are loathed and forgotten instead of being loved and adored with rich tributes!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 22. 07. 19

WHAT'S ALWAYS BETTER? 21.07.19

WHAT'S ALWAYS BETTER?

Yes, it's always better to avoid seeing the sight,
That, in a flash, demolishes your domes of delight,
That, in a trice, drags you to an unwanted knee-deep plight,
That, in a jiffy, ceases your Joy Rides, and puts out your serenity light!

Yes, it's always better to avoid delivering the sermons,
That is ever unwelcome as the bitterest peels of the lemons,
That is ever thrown instantly, as the rubbish, into the bins of wilderness,
That is ever spat out in disgust as the inedible and unpalatable rotten oranges!

Yes, it's always better to stay aloof from the company,
That tarnishes your image; vanishes your peace and finishes your harmony,
That eliminates your mental equanimity and enhances your sourest agony,
That demolishes your deep-rooted plants of progress and prosperity like FANI!

It is always better to practise the golden Silence, the best ever Policy,
That definitely bestows on you streams of beatitude, and oceans of Mercy,
That surely removes your remorse, regret, repentance and lamentation,
And blesses you with the Key to an endless Bliss and unattainable Liberation!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 21.07.19

SDM'S ROMANTIC QUATRAIN: 18.07.19

GOOD AFTERNOON.

WHEN THY HANDS ART CLAMPED ON MY SHY SHOULDER.....!

WHEN THY HANDS ART CLAMPED ON MY SHY SHOULDER.......!

Yeah! When thy soothing hands art clamped on my shy shoulder,
O my ever shining Love Bulb's securest, loyalest and most handsome Holder;
I gladly fly into an Elysian world of euphoria, ecstasy and exhilaration,
Oh! I soon dream like leaping to a utopian Land of blissful emancipation!

Yeah! When thy comforting and caressing hands art placed on my crooning shoulder,
A great many fairies, to dance, gambol and revel,
pop out of my content heart's folder;
I suck with inordinate rapture, from their regaling touches, a heavenly Ambrosia,
And find myself more fortunate and more fulfilling than Bassanio's prettiest Portia!

Yeah! When thy fondling and healing hands dost adorn my chaste shoulder,
An ordinary and timid Lady in me turns extraordinary, more beautiful and bolder,
Even Death seems to be showering on me more relishing Peace, let alone Life,
My content, fortified feet can run unhurt on the hurdle-bombs, let alone a knife!

Yeah! When thy immortal hands dost land on my mortal shoulder,
All my wants cease; life's final Goal is reached; and is scaled the Salvation Ladder!


Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 18.07.19

BEST OF THE BEST AWARD POST: 17.07.19

It is really an honour to be a member of your twin literary groups: Antoheen and Chirontan. Tq so much dear Sutapa Ghoshroy Mam and the team Antoheen for your so much love for my poems. Gratitude to all.

অন্তহীন  এর সব সদস্য রোজ সুন্দর সুন্দর পোস্ট করে আমাদের গ্রুপ ওয়াল সুসজ্জিত করেন ।আমরা প্রতি টি সুন্দর পোস্টের জন্য পুরস্কার দিয়ে থাকি । তা সত্ত্বেও কিছু পোস্ট আমাদের মন ছুঁয়ে যায় .

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON GURUS: 16. 07. 19

HAPPY GURU PURNIMA!

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON THE VIJAY DIVAS OF KARGIL WAR: 16.07.19

SALUTE TO THE MARTYRS!

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON SUCCESS: 17. 07. 19

GOOD MORNING.

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SDM'S QUATRAIN (2) ON CONCENTRATION IN LIFE: 15. 07. 19

GOOD MORNING.

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SDM'S QUATRAIN (1) ON LIFE: 14. 07. 19

GOOD MORNING.

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON LORD JAGANNATH: 13. 07. 19

GOOD MORNING:

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON LORD JAGANNATH: 12. 07. 19

GOOD EVENING.

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON LORD JAGANNATH: 11. 07. 19

GOOD MORNING.

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON LORD JAGANNATH: 10. 07. 19

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SDM'S QUATRAIN ON LORD JAGANNATH: 09. 07. 19

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WHY ARE ANIMALS CONSIDERED BETTER THAN THE HUMANS?

WHY ARE ANIMALS CONSIDERED BETTER THAN THE HUMANS?
Animals are rarely seen harming the interests of their own species,
They are, really, more controlled, content and continent than our Ascetics and Rishis,
They are, ironically, more disciplined, devoted and dedicated ones,
Thus, they are, from every respect, considered better than the selfish humans!

Animals don't ever know what a devastating and dastardly warfare is,
They don't ever splurge their wealth on lethal armaments and weapons,
They are ever altruistic, and never perfunctory in their sincerest duties,
That's why they are, from all angles, considered better than the greedy humans!

Animals don't ever indulge themselves in bribery, robbery or slavery,
They are blissfully ignorant of pretence, envy, betrayal, backbiting or treachery,
They are never the wreckers-in-chief of the Nature or curtailers of all lives' spans,
Thus, they are, from all prospects, considered better than the mean humans!

Can't we, the wisest, worse humans, learn an iota from our dullest, better Counterparts,
Before we are forced by the fiercest Natural Forces to perish like moths, wasps and rats!

Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 08.07.19

SDM'S QUATRAIN ON LORD JAGANNATH: 08.07.19

GOOD MORNING.

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