GOOD EVENING.
N.B. This QUINTRAIN is dedicated to W.B Yeats and his lady love Maud Gonne.
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Tuesday 31 March 2020
WHEN YOU GROW OLD!
When the chilly and shivering winds of your old age starts to blow,
When the sprightly and leaping spring of your vivacious youth ceases to flow,
When the midday sun of your enviable Beauty sets slowly to low,
When all the false, fleeting and fallacious flatterers quit you alone to go,
You will feel ruefully then the never fading beacon of my True Love still steadily glow!
Oh! When you bend down under the burdens of old age infirmities and remorse,
When you walk like a snail, leaning on a staff, O the bygone days' blooming Rose,
When you stand, like a stranded ship, on your solitary verandah to view the kids' plays and soars,
When you bless the newly married couples to begin in life a blissful course,
You will feel ruefully then that the never drying sky of my True Love still selflessly pours!
Oh! When you overhear every night your son solicit your daughter in law in vain,
"Please stop replying to your old chats, and resuming your new ones, for it's already four and ten!"
When she retorts rudely then, "Ah! I can no longer listen to your clichéd complaints again and again!"
You will feel ruefully then, "O that I, too, in my youth, had listened to my Yeats' advice to avoid my present pain!"
N.B. This poem is inspired by W.B Yeats' poem "WHEN YOU ARE OLD." addressed to Maud Gonne whom he loved but couldn't marry her, for she didn't accept his love till end. Copyright: Dr. Shankar D Mishra. 08.11.21
Sunday 29 March 2020
VIRTUE
Being the sap of one’s life is a virtue
Being the smile on one’s lips is a virtue
Being the key to one’s success is a virtue
Being the steps to one’s prosperity is a virtue.
Being the legs of the lame is a virtue
Being the eyes of the blind is a virtue
Being the ears of the deaf is a virtue
Being the laps of the orphans is a virtue.
Being the beds for the fatigued is a virtue
Being the books for the illiterate is a virtue
Being the camels of the desert is a virtue
Being the supports of the neglected is a virtue.
Being the hope-rays of the despaired is a virtue
Being the balms of the wounded is a virtue
Being the oars of the voyagers is a virtue
Being the guides of the misguided is a virtue.
Providing the thirsty with water is a virtue
Feeding the hungry stomachs is a virtue
Helping the needy and destitute is a virtue
Caressing one’s just emotions is a virtue.
Providing shade to the sunburnt is a virtue
Providing umbrellas over the wet is a virtue
Providing shelters to the homeless is a virtue
Providing shame-covers to the naked is a virtue.
Standing by the oppressed is a virtue
Shouldering the loads of the weak is a virtue
Showing the ways to the straying is a virtue
Wiping the tears of the tortured is a virtue.
Speaking the Truth boldly is a virtue
Helping the helpless willingly is a virtue
Listening to the voice of the unheard is a virtue
Being the kind tone of the dumb is a virtue.
Spreading sweet harmony is a virtue
Weaving the garments of peace is a virtue
Wreathing the bouquets of friendship is a virtue
Planting the saplings of co-operation is a virtue.
Breezing the winds of affinity is a virtue
Raising the issues of the neglected is a virtue
Watering the plants of loyalty is a virtue
Plucking the fruit of perspiration is a virtue.
Suckling the motherless children is a virtue
Raining in the arid region of poverty is a virtue
Sharing the knowledge with the untaught is a virtue
Lighting the lamps of enlightenment is a virtue.
Removing the carcasses of dead habits is a virtue
Dusting the grimes of ill-thoughts is a virtue
Effacing the ugly faces of vice is a virtue
Refining the thoughts and actions is a virtue.
Shining the hearts of filth is a virtue
Wearing the garlands of honesty is a virtue
Clearing one’s path of mission is a virtue
Hoarding the gems of integrity is a virtue.
Taking pity on the deserved is a virtue
Assuaging one’s pain and pang is a virtue
Living happily for others is a virtue
Consoling the suffered hearts is a virtue.
Fostering the forlorn is a virtue
Buttressing the tumbling is a virtue
Lifting the down trodden is a virtue
Establishing peace in society is a virtue.
Not seeing the evils is a virtue
Not hearing to the evils is a virtue
Not dealing in the evils is a virtue
Not dealing with the evils is a virtue.
Not befriending injustice is a virtue
Not thinking ill of others is a virtue
Not accepting bribes is a virtue
Not yielding to the temptations is a virtue.
Not injecting violence is a virtue
Not stealing or cheating is a virtue
Not lying or fabricating is a virtue
Not being cruel and brutish is a virtue.
Not gambling, smoking or drinking is a virtue.
Not pretending or feigning is a virtue
Not digging ditches for others is a virtue
Not killing the innocent is a virtue.
Not being jealous is a virtue
Not shirking duty is a virtue
Not idling away time is a virtue
Not committing sin is a virtue.
Not being greedy and malicious is a virtue
Not misusing science is a virtue
Not taking one’s advantage is a virtue
Not being guided by vicious ideas is a virtue.
Not discriminating is a virtue
Not deteriorating is a virtue
Not depraving is a virtue
Not degrading is a virtue.
Not perverting is a virtue
Not seducing is a virtue
Not hurting one’s feelings is a virtue
Not massacring the masses is a virtue.
Not envying is a virtue
Not showing off is a virtue
Not betraying is a virtue
Not preying is a virtue.
Not back-biting is a virtue
Not swerving from the noble path is a virtue
Not breaching the code of conduct is a virtue
Not violating women’s modesty is a virtue.
Not encouraging corruption is a virtue
Not promoting human trafficking is a virtue
Not enslaving others is a virtue
Not playing with one’s life is a virtue.
Not proliferating lethal arms is a virtue
Not waging wars is a virtue
Not adulterating anything is a virtue
Not choking common sense is a virtue.
Not misusing natural resources is a virtue
Not contributing to pollution is a virtue
Not believing in oppression is a virtue
Not instigating exploitation is a virtue.
Not suffocating morality is a virtue
Not endangering humanity is a virtue
Not engendering illegality is a virtue
Not encouraging partiality is a virtue.
Not desecrating shrines is a virtue
Not profaning lands is a virtue
Not defiling water bodies is a virtue
Not throttling Nature is a virtue.
Not crippling sensitivity is a virtue
Not slaughtering sensibility is a virtue
Not imprisoning Conscience is a virtue
Not doing the opposites of virtues is a virtue.
N.B: THANK U ALL IN ADVANCE FOR READING AND ENJOYING MY POEM.
©Shankar D Mishra 29 .03.2017
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Friday 27 March 2020
Thursday 26 March 2020
TO CORONA
O Corona! The most intricate and unintelligible Googly of Nature,
You have befooled and clean bowled the most defensive batsman on Earth!
Alas! He is sent to the pavilion for a duck, with no scope to appeal for a Review with an expectant mirth,
Lest he should be spared from losing his vital wicket to save his self-respect, and no more to augment his torture!
O Corona! The Nature's wildest, most lethal and most enigmatic Beast of prey,
You have fused the shrewdest brains, blunted the sharpest blades and diffused the deadliest bombs with your eeriest stay!
You have hushed the world, gagged the rash tongues, fearless hands, and ceased the fastest wheels,
You have rolled the ever active, defiant, indecent and undisciplined lives to unprecedented, shocking stand stills!
O Corona! The sternest and the most heartless Chastiser deployed by the Nature,
Don't misuse Your Veto power like an unruly and unrelenting Arbitrator any longer;
Else, Your pernicious pride and calumnious arrogance of prevailing a universal anarchy shall soon end like a reverie,
For, She stealthily digs the tomb timely, justly and unbiasedly for every illegitimate Dictator's obituary!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 26.03.20
Monday 23 March 2020
AN ODE TO YOUR BLESMERIZING BEAUTY
AN ODE TO YOUR BLESMERIZING BEAUTY
Oh! Once I was traversing timidly through my life's jungle dense, dark and dangerous,
Teemed with the infectious insects, and the prowling beasts of prey carnivorous,
But, all the ominous and deadly animals turned tame by your blesmerizing Beauty's glance,
And, I landed myself smoothly, safely glorifying your enchanting charms inside a dream Heaven's entrance!
Oh! Once I was trekking up my life's steep
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 23.03.20
Oh! Once I was traversing timidly through my life's jungle dense, dark and dangerous,
Teemed with the infectious insects, and the prowling beasts of prey carnivorous,
But, all the ominous and deadly animals turned tame by your blesmerizing Beauty's glance,
And, I landed myself smoothly, safely glorifying your enchanting charms inside a dream Heaven's entrance!
Oh! Once I was trekking up my life's steep
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 23.03.20
Sunday 22 March 2020
Saturday 21 March 2020
Thursday 19 March 2020
HARK, O MY DEAR FRIEND!
Hark, O my dear friend! Doing anything, in a haste, for your petty personal pleasure,
Going blindly and savagely against one's holy, sublime and heavenly wishes,
Compels you, one day or the other, to repent and lament bitterly at leisure,
For, a devil, who deviates, ever goes to a hell, while a Saint gets blessed with Blisses!
Hark, O my enlightened friend! Where do you feel, in God's subtle creation, lies Heaven?
To me, it's never found in seclusion, illusion, detachment, desolation or self inflicted pain,
It's conceived where rest two 'Sacred Souls' resting the rest, mingling into a numinous one,
Where they savour the Panacea of supra mundane Love that leads them to a celestial Salvation!
Hark, O my sagacious friend! Let's accept the ethereal embrace of this inseparable water to advance,
And attain our final fulfilment as does a Lotus leaf in the mundane pond of Earth,
Which is, undoubtedly, one of the best Teachers for the pursuers of Deliverance,
For, It never deserts Its Divine Qualities even in the company of the material mirth,
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 19.03.20
Wednesday 18 March 2020
Tuesday 17 March 2020
HUSH AND LISTEN! CORONA DELIVERS A SPEECH NOW.
CORONA TREATMENT INSIDE.
O humans! I am born out of your hatred and cruelty towards the innocent animals,
Your absolute monopoly and despotic domination over the Natural resources,
Your cold war among yourselves to justify own fleeting, sordid supremacy over others,
Your mass misuse of the boons of science, that's been dictated to bear many a curse!
O humans! I am the illegitimate and bastard child of your wanton promiscuousness,
I am the outcome of your abject disrespect to Nature, and defiance God's Omnipotence,
I am the tasteless, inedible and unhealthy fruit of your recklessness and fearlessness,
I am the result of your rancorous rivalry; craze for wild, frenzied and lethal Arms' race!
Why are you scampering helter skelter madly scared of me, O my heinous parents?
Why are you burning midnight oils to abort and kill me, O the so-called modern saints?
For, I am only one of benevolent Nature's
minor and reasonable premonitions,
I am the mild chastiser to rectify you, before befall the imminent ruinations!
Thus, it's up to you whether to honour God and Nature, and adhere to virtues, love and humanity,
Before it gets too late to shed crocodile tears when, to deface life on earth, reaches my ghastliest and deadliest community!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 18. 03.20
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Monday 16 March 2020
TO YOUR SWEET AND SERENE BEAUTY
O like a desirous, delirious, dancing and determined dolphin,
Does merrily soar my boisterous and hilarious heart so high,
That it can dive delightfully deeper so as to reach you within,
Where, with boundless and soundless Bliss, it can perpetually rest and lie!
O like a Beauty seeking and honey sucking butterfly,
Flutters and leaps my restive and rapturous heart on your rosy Bosom,
Bidding blithely the rest of the world a prompt, happy goodbye,
For, before your sweet and serene Beauty, reveries resemble realities; and reigns no more in life boredom!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 16.03.20
Saturday 14 March 2020
Friday 13 March 2020
Thursday 12 March 2020
O GOD! THIS IS WHY WE ARE THANKFUL TO YOU.
O GOD! THIS IS WHY WE ARE THANKFUL TO YOU.
O God! We, the humans, are thankful to You for innumerable reasons,
For, You alone have sculpted this Earth with the Nature and Her Six sweetest Seasons;
For, You alone have made man exquisitely exceptional among all other creations,
Who will then, without whom, recognize You, and eulogize You glorifications?
O God! We, the humans, are grateful to You for Your boundless bounties in countless ways;
For, for our dire necessities, You have meticulously made nights and days,
For, for our indispensable needs, You have carefully created springs, lakes, seas and bays,
For, for our inevitable requirements, You have sensibly devised lands, rains, air and sun rays!
O God! We the humans, are owed to You for Your all the miraculous Creations,
And behind them Your most infallible engineerings and subtlest deliberations,
Your most judicious and most foolproof plannings behind every phenomenon,
And, despite our unforgivable Sins, Your infinite Pity and indefinable compassion!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 12.03.20
O God! We, the humans, are thankful to You for innumerable reasons,
For, You alone have sculpted this Earth with the Nature and Her Six sweetest Seasons;
For, You alone have made man exquisitely exceptional among all other creations,
Who will then, without whom, recognize You, and eulogize You glorifications?
O God! We, the humans, are grateful to You for Your boundless bounties in countless ways;
For, for our dire necessities, You have meticulously made nights and days,
For, for our indispensable needs, You have carefully created springs, lakes, seas and bays,
For, for our inevitable requirements, You have sensibly devised lands, rains, air and sun rays!
O God! We the humans, are owed to You for Your all the miraculous Creations,
And behind them Your most infallible engineerings and subtlest deliberations,
Your most judicious and most foolproof plannings behind every phenomenon,
And, despite our unforgivable Sins, Your infinite Pity and indefinable compassion!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 12.03.20
Tuesday 3 March 2020
O MY LOVE! WHAT IS NOT ENOUGH BEFORE YOU.
O MY LOVE! WHAT IS NOT ENOUGH BEFORE YOU.
O my Love! One full moon is not enough
To match your beauty and grace,
For, you are not made up of any commonplace stuff,
Your virtues are ever much above any mundane race!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 03.03.20
O my Love! One full moon is not enough
To match your beauty and grace,
For, you are not made up of any commonplace stuff,
Your virtues are ever much above any mundane race!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 03.03.20
TO MY SWEET FRIEND
Oh! You are to me no less worthy, rich and enduring a resource,
Than what was the serene Solitary Reaper to Wordsworth once:
She had left him hypnotized by her spellbinding song, though unclear,
And, you lifted me, with your honeyed tone, to a state, transcendental, ecstatic and rare!
Oh! The charms of the laughing and dancing daffodils could not last longer in the port's mind,
Than your graceful etiquette, candid affinity, lively lucidity, o my memorable Find!
Thus, to forget you, even for an instant, in my whole life time, my dear,
Is to be more ungrateful than Brutus, and and more callous and biased than King Lear!
Copyright: Shankar D Mishra 03. 03.20
Monday 2 March 2020
TEST YOUR GRAMMAR SKILL.
DEAR STUDENTS, PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS TO LEARN GRAMMAR FROM ME IN THE EASIEST WAY. TQ.
Do as directed.
1. a. These are very easy questions.
b. These questions are very easy.
c. This is a very easy question.
( Turn into exclamatory sentences)
2. a. These questions are very easy.
b. Mohit can solve all of them correctly without fail.
(Use "too" and "enough", and rewrite)
3. a. Interpreting, what is written in the Bhagavad Geeta, he became popular.
b. Interpreting, what's is written in the Bhagavad Geeta, is not so easy.
(Explain the difference between the two "ing" words in the above sentences.)
4. a. The news, that Rohit scored a century, delighted me.
b. The news, that was telecast on Rohit's scoring a century, delighted me.
(Name and explain the two clauses starting with "that".
5. a. I love you as much as him.
b. I love you as much as he.
c. Let's listen who sings sweetest.
d. Never had the traffic rules been so stringent.
b. I love you as much as he.
c. Let's listen who sings sweetest.
d. Never had the traffic rules been so stringent.
e. This is one of Nature's most mysterious mysteries.
(Change the degrees of adjectives of the above sentences)
6. a. I can.
b. I can!
a. I would if I could.
b. I could if I would.
a. I am going to come.
b. I am coming to go.
a. I came to meet you.
b. I am glad to meet you.
(Find the different senses in the above four sentences.)
7. a. Only Ram can speak English.
b. Ram can only speak English.
c. Ram can speak only English.
d. Ram can speak English only.
(Find the different senses in the above four sentences?)
(Find the different senses in the above four sentences?)
8. a. He was unwell. He went out to work.
( Use 'nonetheless' and ' notwithstanding that')
b. Walk carefully. You may fall down.
(Use 'if'/ 'lest')
c. I practised Yoga. My purpose was to stay healthy.
( Use 'so that')
d. The last ball was bowled. The winning team was announced.
(Begin 'Scarcely..../ No sooner......)
9. a. Let's discuss the questions now.
b. People say that he is a gentleman.
c. You have to solve the above questions.
d. He ought not to have wasted time.
e. Who can answer this question?
(Turn the above questions into Passive Voice)
10. a. Teacher said to the students, "Do you know the answer to this question?"
b. Mother said to her son, "Who teaches you Physics?"
(Turn the above questions into Indirect Speech)
11 a. Simple is very simple.
b. He is regularly irregular.
c. The kettle is boiling.
d. Life depends upon the liver.
e. His young shoulders can't bear this much burden.
f. Sweet are the uses of adversity.
g. An idea can change your world.
h. O Frailty! Thy name is woman.
i. As food is to the stomach, so are studies to the brain.
j. O Death! Be not proud.
k. Gandhiji closed his eyes forever.
l. India won the match.
c. The kettle is boiling.
d. Life depends upon the liver.
e. His young shoulders can't bear this much burden.
f. Sweet are the uses of adversity.
g. An idea can change your world.
h. O Frailty! Thy name is woman.
i. As food is to the stomach, so are studies to the brain.
j. O Death! Be not proud.
k. Gandhiji closed his eyes forever.
l. India won the match.
m. I have already spent 46 Springs.
n. He was not an ordinary person.
o. Parting is a sweet sorrow.
p. Sceptre and crowd must tumble down.
q. Hope is a poor man's bread.
r. As food is to the stomach, so are studies to the brain.
(Name and explain the figures of speech used in the above sentences.)
Copyright: Dr. Shankar D Mishra
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