Tuesday, 22 November 2022

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1. LET'S LAY DOWN THE WEAPONS!

2. LET ME NEVER BID MY BELOVED A ‘GOODBYE’!

3. TO A MOGRA FLOWER

4. LET’S MAKE OUR PRECIOUS LIFE A PEERLESS CAMERA!

5. HAS A LADY EVER ENJOYED HER TRUE EMANCIPATION?

 6. LET ME BE ZEALOUS, NOT JEALOUS OF SHAKESPEARE’S GENIUS

7. O GOD! LET ME NOT BE A MONARCH OF A FATAL KINGDOM!

 8. WHOM TO TRUST?

9. CONQUEST OVER DEFEAT

 10. YES, IT IS HIGH TIME

 11. WHEN THOU ART AT MY LAP

 12. BELIEVE ME, YOU SHALL ETERNALLY LIE.

13. A KIND WORD VERSUS A HARSH WORD

14. LET THE LAMP OF LOVE BE LIGHTED TO ILLUMINATE THE GLOBE!

15. WAR

 16. CONFUSION

 17. LET’S PREPARE FOR A MEMORABLE PICNIC

18. YOU CAN SURELY BEAT THE GRAVE

 19. GOD MADE A UNIQUE DEPUTY CALLED ‘MOTHER

20. TIME

21. SONG OF LIFE

22. YOUR BEAUTY

23. O GOD! LET ME BE A FLOWER AT THY FEET!

 24. LET’S NOT CONNIVE AT OUR LACUNA

25. THE SOLILOQUY OF A MIRROR

26. LABOUR’S FLAVOUR

27. LABOUR

28. OURS IS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO VINOD KHANNA

29. TO THE SPRING

30. PASS, SURPASS AND TRESPASS

31. LET’S WAIT TILL TIME BEATS OUR VICTORY DRUMS

32. THIS IS MY MISSION

33. A SONNET ON MY BELOVED

34. AH! THE WRETCHED MOUNTAINS

35. SONG OF THE TREES

36. SPRING TIME

37. RELATION

38. THE MAGICAL EFFECTS OF CHANTING ‘RAM NAM’

39. I

 40. THE SOLILOQUY OF A MIRROR

41 DIVINE CRAZE

 42. VIRTUE

43. CURIOSITY

44. THIS IS THE WORLD

45. HOW CAN THIS WORLD BE MADE A HEAVEN?

46. O GOD! I SEEK THY COMPANY.

47. SKIN

48. SIMPLE MEN

49. WHOM TO TRUST?

50. O GOD! MAY EVERYONE BE AT LEAST A SAGE!

 51. A NEW YEAR WISH……..

52. IF I WERE A TREE ......

53. DO IDENTITIES REALLY MATTER?

 54. IF PRIDE COMES

55. ILLUSION

56. WHAT IS THIS? O LOVE, TELL ME!

57. DESTINY AND DESTINATION

 58. SOME TIPS TO BE AN IDEAL TEACHER

 59. LET’S BE SAFEGUARDED BY THE DETACHED AND DESIRELESS NETS!

 60. ONLY IF I COULD AFFORD A VIDEO TICKET THEN…….!

 61. LET ME ABSORB AND DRY ALL THE SOUREST AND BITTEREST TEARS!

62. SATARE, TORA…….

 


1. LET'S LAY DOWN THE WEAPONS!

 

Let's lay down the fatal weapons:

Now, the worst enemies of humans,

That defile the purity of the pristine air,

That spread all around an animosity fire!

 

Let's lay down the mortal arms and blind armaments:

The deadliest agents of mass destruction,

That sever the globe into uncountable fragments,

That breed hatred, rivalry, fear and tension!

 

Let's lay down the gory ammunitions of intolerance:

The most heinous accused of volcanic and venomous violence,

That drags lives, in no time, to a stagnancy, and brings them to a stand still,

That, in an instant, insanely does the whole mankind massacre and stifle!

 

Let's today lay down what is harmful to God's Creation, and pernicious,

So that we all can relish, to the hilt, His generous gifts of life, so precious!

 

N.B: Composed on 5th June, the world Environment Day.

 

Copyright: Shank D Mishra 07.06.2018

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LET ME NEVER BID MY BELOVED A ‘GOODBYE’!

 

How can I, an enraptured Rose, disallow and deny,

If my dearest Beloved, like a piercing and penetrating Thorn,

Wishes to love me constantly, and below me eternally lie,

To provide me, from all external invasions, a perfect protection?

 

How can I, an ardent devotee of Love, coldly turn it down,

If my darling Beloved enjoys me with her excruciating smooching,

Until my crimson bloods, like a lively fountain, trickle down,

For, except mine sweetest, she can’t be pleased by any other being?

 

How can I reject my matchless Beloved with a groan or whine,

For, She claims to be for me the costliest German Rhenish wine,

For, She vociferously asserts that She will remain forever only mine,

For, an iota of her warm love retains even no other Shakespearean Heroine?

 

Thus, let my Beloved’s Love be fresh and alive until spreads the vast Sky,

Let my Beloved’s Love prevail till the light and heat of the Sun do not die,

Let my Beloved’s Love be an unprecedented Emblem of True Nuptial Tie,

Let me never in life bid my Beloved a painful and unthinkable ‘Goodbye’!

 

Glossary:

Ardent - passionate

Rhenish – pertaining to wine produced in the Rhine region 

Vociferously – loudly

An iota of – a bit of

Unprecedented - extraordinary

Emblem - symbol

Nuptial - marriage/conjugal

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 22.05.2 018

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TO A MOGRA FLOWER

 

Wow! You are gifted with a sweet and charming aroma,

Alas! I am cursed with a foul- odorous stigma!

Your celestial fragrance attracts Souls to you,

Alas! My insalubrious and selfish stink is greeted by few!

 

Wow! You are born to bind the hearts with your unique Aura,

You keep pouring on them peace and joy in a plethora!

Alas! My presence adulterates the pure pleasures of the ambience,

For, I am an ill-famous Antonym to your far reaching Eminence!

 

Thus, May your Tribe, by leaps and bounds, replenish,

May my ugly kind dwindle fast, and quickly diminish!

May your so exceptional species swiftly abound all around,

May my roots be replaced with yours in the mundane ground!

 

May my wish be granted for a heavenly revival of the Earth,

May Eternal happiness perpetuate here with your August birth!

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 30.12.2017

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LET’S MAKE OUR PRECIOUS LIFE A PEERLESS CAMERA!

 

Let the courteous Camera of our precious Life,

Be always focused only on the objects of relevance;

So that the sweet snaps of our ceaseless strife,

Bear a universal acceptance, importance and endurance!

 

Let the invaluable Camera of our priceless Life,

Never be dragged towards the dark and blurred aspects;

Lest the irreversible snaps of our indefatigable strife,

Should ever lack the desired shines, values and respects!

 

Let the ingenious Camera of our splendorous Life,

Be able to turn ordinary Negatives into extra-ordinary Positives!

Let it carry on its honest, resolute and persistent strife,

Until its sweaty endeavour, the world’s worthy recognition receives!

 

Let our peerless Camera of unique Life keep clicking laudable snaps,

Until its cells are exhausted, and its Vision Nature finally wraps!

Let the matchless snaps of our ultimate outcome,

Adorn, embellish , prettify and enrich Beauty’s everlasting Laps!

 

 N.B: This poem is inspired by a ‘Good Morning’ message posted today on the Timeline of one of my friends. Tq dear friend for your nice post.

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 22.12.2017

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HAS A LADY EVER ENJOYED HER TRUE EMANCIPATION?

 

What Law in the world has unshackled and unchained me,

Which Law has lifted me to the ostensible Liberty’s Acme,

Where has Law really materialized my long cherished dream,

When has Law allowed me to flow as a free and fair Stream?

 

Am I not still everywhere a second Priority at birth,

Am I not to sacrifice a lion’s share from my hard earned Mirth,

Am I not to marry after standing before Myriad male choices,

Am I not very often gagged to suppress my legitimate Voices?

 

Am I not to lose my Surname with my Nuptial Tie,

Am I not a compromising Pan to my every Happiness fry,

Am I not subjected to all ill at ease male queries to reply,

Am I not born, under the irresistible male whims, to ever lie?

 

Am I not still whipped to show Mercy, being ever at others’ Mercy,

Am I not dangling a hollow badge of Feminine Greatness and Courtesy,

Am I not still a dumb Puppet in the unshakable string of male domination,

Am I not still living in a mere Pseudo world of the so-called Emancipation?

 

 Glossary:

 Emancipation – liberation

Unshackled and unchained – freed

Acme – peak

Cherished - treasured

Mirth – delight

Myriad - countless

Gagged – suppressed

Ostensible - superficial

Legitimate – lawful/ justifiable

Subjected to – forced to

 Ill at ease - uncomfortable

Irresistible – compelling/overpowering

Whims – impulses

Whipped – forced/punished

Dangling - hanging

Hollow badge - empty symbol

Courtesy - good manners/ consideration

Unshakable – steadfast/firm

Domination – control/ supremacy

Pseudo – artificial/ simulated

So-called – supposed

Emancipation - liberation

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 21.12.2017

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WhatsApp no. 08270604524LET ME BE ZEALOUS, NOT JEALOUS OF SHAKESPEARE’S GENIUS

 

If I unreasonably compare myself with Shakespeare,

And unnecessarily feel myself despondent and inferior,

Dejectedly think myself, near his illustrious halo, nowhere,

Downheartedly feel myself commonplace, him a gem rare,

Dismally begin to feel myself negligible; dolefully curse and lament,

Wha will be the inevitable and unavoidable outcome?

It will, in vain, pain me more and more, dampen me and torment,

Will make me, consequently, sad, surly, sullen and glum……!

 

If, instead, I can rationally and sensibly ask myself:

“Why can’t you bake yourself a more delicious literary Cake,

If Shakespeare, five centuries ago, could so immaculately make,

Being zealous, drawing impetus from his contemporary counterparts’ pelf

Could excel in his own inimitable Arts, giving up inferiority, pessimistic fears?”

 “For, Ego-less eyes and Positive perusal do bless us with the last laugh and cheers”!

 

Glossary:

Zealous – enthusiastic 

Despondent - hopeless

Dejectedly – unhappily

Illustrious - famous

Halo – bright and distinguished literary development

Downheartedly - in despair

Dismally - cheerlessly

Dolefully - unhappily

Lament - cry for

Dampen – dishearten

Surly, sullen and glum – sad and miserable

Rationally and sensibly – with logic

Pelf – here, literary genius

Inimitable – matchless

Pessimistic – unenthusiastic/ negative

Perusal - read-through

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 14.12.2017

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WhatsApp no. 08270604524O GOD! LET ME NOT BE A MONARCH OF A FATAL KINGDOM!

 

Oh! Artificiality plays supreme,

Where Genuineness is scared to scamper and quietly scream!

Oh! A Reverie is adored as, and substituted for a sweet dream,

Where the reeking Scum is taken for mouth watering Cream!

 

Comes to power a misleading and unrivalled Illusion,

Where suffocated and strangled is the valued Vision!

Oh! A more blessed and welcome haven is a poisoned Prison,

Where whipped, gagged and throttled is one’s prized Reason!

 

Oh! Hell is a much coveted and sought after place,

Where Heaven is unwanted like cursed, rotten flesh!

Oh! A shameful Incarceration is a celestial Bliss,

Where Salvation is ignobly sliced to many a piece!

 

Oh! Falsehood clears, at ease, the litmus Test,

Where Truth is poisoned to death as a pestering Pest!

O God! Let me not be a wretched Monarch of a fatal Kingdom,

Let me prefer, in Your Realm, a contented and reprieved Serfdom!

 

Glossary:

reeking - stinking

scum- a layer of dirt on the surface of a liquid

gagged –choked

throttled - suffocated

incarceration - imprisonment

 

©Shankar D Mishra 02.11.2017

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WhatsApp no. 08270604524WHOM TO TRUST?

 

Ah! A pathetic and piteous voice, the Class Teacher heard,

While he was teaching Chemistry in the second period!

It was Karun who, like a swishing and swelling flood,

Raised his delirious and uneasy head gradually upward!

 

Then, the Teacher, saying, “What is the matter, my dear?”

Approached the ever innocent and sobbing pupil near!

As soaked and blotted his written papers with his bitter beads of tear,

Said he, “Sir, intense is my Stomach-ache, ouch! I am unable to bear!”

 

Melting like the soft butter by Karun’s stomach-ache drama heat,

Teacher did caress his back and give him a New Guest’s Treat!

Without any home-work, teacher instantly sent Karun home,

But, little did he guess, Karun’s only remedy was Google Chrome!

 

Karun’s disease remained an unnoticed and unsuspected mystery,

Until he disclosed to Varun, while Meeta Mam was teaching History!

The shocking and sickening fact fast circulated far and wide like wild fire,

“Whom to trust?” then murmured to himself, the gaping Chemistry Sir!

 

Glossary:

Swishing – hissing/ whistling

Delirious – restless/convulsive

Google Chrome – here, Video Games

Gaping - looking with wide open mouth, as in wonder

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 02.01.2018

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WhatsApp no. 08270604524CONQUEST OVER DEFEAT

 

 

Can a scared canoe surpass high tides

A daunted dog prey if it hides

A fierce fighter fizzle out in the fight

The perseverant be divested of day light?

 

When perspiring a thousand times down does fall

A tiny food-crumb carrying ant to ascend on a precipitous wall,

Yet, it injects its self aplomb in each vein with fortitude

Ascents and descents and vice versa persist to a multitude;

But, all its endeavours bear smiles of fructification

To chant: “The perseverant become triumphant in the long run.”

 

A sanguine diver dips in the deep ocean

Though very often hollow handed he returns,

Yet, his verves overcome his fleet, fragile failures

Invites the fathomless water to quest for rare pearls;

But frequents not he back with sordid, sullen fists

To chant:“The perseverant aren’t damped by deterrent mists.”

 

Failure is a taunting challenge, take it soon on

To detect thy defects and diagnose, be ever prone,

Shun thy slumber unless the Ultimate Goal is got

Desert not the Kurukshetra until the debacle is fought;

To chant: “Eulogy trumpets blow not sine any floral feat

The steady perseverant compel defeat to bow at their feet!”

 

*daunted - scared/demoralized

*fizzle out - fail, end weakly, esp. after a hopeful beginning

*perseverant - steadfast in one's job/action

*divested of - deprived of

*fructification- fruit production

*verves - high spirits/ enthusiasms

*fleet - short-lived

*fragile - weak

*sordid - cheap/base

*sullen _ unwilling to smile/ be unpleasant to people

*debacle - defeat

*Kurukshetra - the battle ground of the Pandavas and the Kauravas in the Epic Mahabharata

 

N.B: A very small effort to compose a poem on the famous Hindi poem “HAAR NAHI HOTI”. SO FAR AS THE POET IS CONCERNED, THERE ARE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON NET. SO, THE POEM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE POET.

कोशिश करने वालों की (Koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti)

प्रस्तुतकर्ता SURYA पर 11:29 pm

लहरों से डर कर नौका पार नहीं होती,

कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती।

नन्हीं चींटी जब दाना लेकर चलती है,

चढ़ती दीवारों पर, सौ बार फिसलती है।

मन का विश्वास रगों में साहस भरता है,

चढ़कर गिरना, गिरकर चढ़ना अखरता है।

आख़िर उसकी मेहनत बेकार नहीं होती,

कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती।

डुबकियां सिंधु में गोताखोर लगाता है,

जा जा कर खाली हाथ लौटकर आता है।

मिलते नहीं सहज ही मोती गहरे पानी में,

बढ़ता दुगना उत्साह इसी हैरानी में।

मुट्ठी उसकी खाली हर बार नहीं होती,

कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती।

असफलता एक चुनौती है, इसे स्वीकार करो,

क्या कमी रह गई, देखो और सुधार करो।

जब तक सफल हो, नींद चैन को त्यागो तुम,

संघर्ष का मैदान छोड़ कर मत भागो तुम।

कुछ किये बिना ही जय जय कार नहीं होती,

कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती।

--हरिवंशराय बच्चन

 

©Shankar D Mishra 28.05.2017

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YES, IT IS HIGH TIME

 

 

Ouch! A sudden, callous blast shatters the whole matters

Forces the innocent lives into sad and hapless tatters

Pulls the moving, active and serene world to a standstill

Pits unfathomable gorges of loss that is too hard to fill!

 

Ah! Bloods ejaculate; fleshes are sliced and minced

Bones are scattered; the usual carnival is diminished!

Frenzied stampedes, hustles and bustles for survival

Oh! Some defeat Death; alas! Some succumb to burial!

 

When the menacing fanatics loom large slyly and hover

Shock and terror waves spread the tumultuous world over

Roads are drained by flash floods of piteous, pathetic tears

Ah! Some vanish themselves; some lose their nears and dears!

 

But, what gains they reap being hell-bent on destructions

What motives they materialize devising deadly devastations

What goals they achieve by facilitating irreparable ruinations?

Do they really, by their heinous cruelty, reach birth’s destinations?

 

It is high time they did scrupulously ponder and sensibly retreat

They did rectify themselves before it is remorsefully too late

Else, none will come to their rescues as the Conscience Fate,

With appropriate remedies, will call them on to gulp and greet!

 

 

©Shankar D Mishra 27.05.2017

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WHEN THOU ART AT MY LAP

 

 

When thou art at my lap:

Even lead seems to me enviably soft

Even nail tips touch like blooms’ tuft

Even dry hays become silky fabric

Even water plants turn wools terrific!

 

When thou art at my lap:

My mind is as agile as a dancing deer

A pittance fetches me a endless cheer

Each moment seems to me like festivity

Even the drab earth turns a heaven pretty!

 

When thou art at my lap:

Even poison tastes like sweet nectar

Even blood drops turn pearls of lustre

In dark fortnight, appears the Moon

Everything looks beautiful so soon!

 

When thou art at my lap:

Like a moment a long eon seems

Ah! Happiness abounds and teems

Yes, to me even darkness is light

I prevail over the earth in delight!

 

 

When thou art at my lap:

The whole life becomes poetry

Flows there a river of boundless glee

Love brings all perfection and fulfillment

What else can pour so much contentment?

 

* THOU ART – YOU ARE

 

©Shankar D Mishra 26.05.2017

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BELIEVE ME, YOU SHALL ETERNALLY LIE.

 

Life is full of solid senses and meanings

It is not, at all, a game of one innings;

Only to him a blissful contentment It brings

Who sanguinely and detachedly Its song sings!

 

Life is neither futile, nor even shallow or hollow

It is a bitter-sweet, but efficacious pill to swallow;

It is a long and limitless highway both high and low

It is a Moon, that is sometimes dark, still It does glow!

 

Your life is as relevant as your fellow, close friend’s

Laugh at him never, if ever he falls or he ever bends;

Think not his life as a trifling Toy to rashly play with                                            

Force him not to give up, nor spur him ever to quith!

 

Give always full respect to your own tongue

Lest you should forget it and commit a wrong;

Be loyal, kind and reliable to him who trusts you

Then only can you be One amongst the rare few!

 

Take not ever advantage of your friend’s simplicity

Cheating, pretence and betrayal fetch only futility;

Ah! Co-operation and compassion boost in life unity

Facing the crises with fortitude proves one’s maturity!

 

Lift the fallen, and serve the neglected and downtrodden

Triumph never comes in life abruptly, or all of a sudden;

Do learn to bear with your friend, and patiently pardon

Then all will love you, and in their life’s crown adorn!

 

Life is not stuffed with any baseless or useless matter

Make Its each passing and irretrievable moment better;

Ignore experiences, you have ever tasted, sour or bitter

You will certainly be, at last, than all others, greater!

 

You shall, like every living organism, one day or other die

However, remember, death is not your life’s only end;

Count not ever what you lost and what you gained

Believe me, you shall, after your departure, eternally lie!

N.B: This poem is inspired by H.W Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”.

*quith – quit/ give up [here used as an archaic/old English word]

         

                                                                                                                           

©Shankar D Mishra 25.05.2017

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A KIND WORD VERSUS A HARSH WORD

 

A kind word oozes water from arid stones

A harsh word, like petrol, instantly hearts burns!

A kind word, like a boon, copious joy showers

A harsh word, like red chillies, swells up tears!

 

A kind word, like relishing dishes, removes hunger soon

A harsh word, in the seas of sorrows, does hearts drown!

A kind word spreads sweetness like the Solitary Reaper

A harsh word, like a sharp blade, cuts and bleeds deeper!

 

A kind word, like the quenching water, soothes

A harsh word , like salt on raw wounds writhes!

A kind word, like comforting breeze fans peace

A harsh word, like a huge Roller, destroys bliss!

 

A kind word, like a heartening gift, does fetch relief

A harsh word, like a nagging pest, pours only grief!

A kind word, like green leaves, gladly breathes life

A harsh word pierces soft hearts like a cruel knife!

 

O God! Let me be ever blessed to use a kind word

Let me against using a harsh word cautiously guard

Let me be ever gifted with a kind and pleasing tongue

Let not any heart, by my harsh words, ever be stung!

 

*versus - against

* Solitary Reaper is a poem written by William Wordsworth. In the poem, the solitary/lonely reaper is believed by the poet to be singing a song that surpasses in sweetness than that of a nightingale and a cuckoo.

*writhes – here, gives deep pain

 

©Shankar D Mishra 22.05.2017

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LET THE LAMP OF LOVE BE LIGHTED TO ILLUMINATE THE GLOBE!

 

Let not your love put one into shame and embarrassment

Let not your love kill one’s costly serenity and merriment!

Let not your love, for no disease, be an unwanted treatment

Let not your love pit in one’s mind an irreparable dent!

 

Let not your love prove to be lusty, impulsive and ardent

Let not your love force one to suffocate and faint!

Let not your love reduce shine of one’s life’s filament

Let not your love compel one to repent and lament!

 

Let the norms of love be adored well and abided

Let not love ever be cultivated one-sided!

Let not one, for your unrequited love, be chided

Let not love ever, by mean motives, be guided!

 

Let the lamp of love be lighted to illuminate the globe

Let the Panacea of love cure all maladies, and resolve!

 

* unrequited - unreciprocated /unanswered

©Shankar D Mishra 21.05.2017

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WAR

 

 Oh! War rains torrential blood

It expands the straits of enmity broad!

It turns green oases into arid deserts

Ah! Compassion in its company rots!

 

Oh! War ruthlessly chokes fraternity

It kills callously humanity!

It breeds bitter, rancorous hatred

Ah! Fury in its company does tread!

 

Oh! War intensifies horror

It spurs the reign of terror!

It assumes the shape of a ravenous Monster

That cruelly licks lives as dusts does a duster!

 

Oh! War sprinkles frightfulness

It invokes ghastliness!

It incites gruesomeness

Past description is its ugly hideousness!

 

Oh! War brings everything to a standstill

Its taste is sour, sound is shrill!

It inundates the earth with tears

It besets the atmosphere with fears!

 

Oh! War, with its deafening sounds, blasts the eardrums

It blows incessantly tumultuous throes storms!

It dictates mass nudity and shamelessness

It opens up Pandora’s Box of stinging helplessness!

 

Oh! War spreads the venomous spite and malice

It chops Peace into many a wretched piece!

It dilapidates in a jiffy age-old masonries

It spills the bins of limitless miseries!

 

Oh! War maims, mutilates, lacerates and cripples

It suffocates, strangulates and sends gory ripples!

It bleeds, floods and all values relentlessly finishes

In its vicinity all Earth’s Mirth fumes and vanishes!

 

War leaves the survivors worse than the dead

It snatches their smiles, sheds, decency and bread!

Most disastrous is its ravaging and rapacious holocaust

Which turns the Whole land useless, waste and lost!

 

O the devilish, deadly and insensitive war mongers

When will you refrain yourselves from this Curse?

Let your sagacity be used for a better, richer Planet

Let your lavish pelf be used wisely before it is too late!

 

Let there return the plundered harmony and serenity

Let there prevail again tolerance and tranquility

Let the ghosts of savagery be exonerated forever

Let there flow again a Perennial Peace River!

 

* torrential – pouring/ bucketing/heavy

 * straits – canals/channels

* rancorous – unforgiving/ revengeful

* ravenous – very hungry/ greedy

* tumultuous – noisy/ disorderly

* throes – death pains/ extreme pains

*dilapidates – pulls down, stone from stone

* in a jiffy - in a moment/ in a minute

* lacerates – tears, * strangulates – suffocates

* gory - violent* ravaging - devastating

 *rapacious – voracious, * mongers - dealers

* holocaust – a huge slaughter or destruction of life

* sagacity - wisdom, * lavish - plentiful

*savagery – uncivilized condition

*pelf – money/riches ( in a bad sense)

 * exonerated – freed

 

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CONFUSION

 

Lack of comprehension creates confusion

Lack of conviction creates confusion

Lack of perception creates confusion

Lack of realization creates confusion.

 

Confusion leads to silent irritation

Confusion leads to hidden agitation

Confusion leads to an unspoken botheration

Confusion leads to a suppressed frustration.

 

Confusion breeds anxiety and apprehension

Confusion breeds depression and trepidation

Confusion breeds dismay and consternation

Confusion breeds nervousness and perturbation.

 

Let’s overcome confusion for self-satisfaction

Let’s cultivate transparency for blithe exultation

Let’s nurture candour for a merry exhilaration

Let’s transcend confusion for a sure emancipation.

 

Let’s replace sour confusion with sweet fruition

Let frankness remove a throbbing menacing tension

Let confusion, instead, inspire us for a bold solution

Let’s all erase confusion phobia from our mind’s lexicon.

 

Let’s neither confuse nor be confused for mutual gain

Let’s all be confusion free, conscientious and sane

Let’s dodge an imminent, but avoidable bane

Let’s try our utmost for the reign of a blissful brain.

 

 

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Dear friends, this is the peak time for picnic

Let’s decide a more befitting spot, and pick

All that is needed to make our outing enjoyable.

Let’s make it for life time sweet and memorable.

 

Let’s start early to have enough time for sightseeing

Let’s do select a chorus that will amuse all and sing

Let’s carry a cook who can feed us full and well

Let’s not litter the spot and turn it ugly and pale.

 

Let’s all say ‘no’ to the dangerous drugs and addictions

Let’s not be causes for others’ headaches and vexations.

Let this picnic write a new and happy chapter in life

Let our picnic of life be a more praise-worthy strife.

 

Let’s rejoice ourselves and let others relish as much fun.

Let’s all prepare for a safe, sound and impressive return.

 

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YOU CAN SURELY BEAT THE GRAVE

 

Do stretch the hands of help to the poor

Do sweeten their lives tortured and sour.

Do cater to the needs of the needy

Do leave the company of the greedy.

 

Be the props of the crippled and the lame

Avoid all that showers ignominious shame.

Quit the queue that runs after name and fame

Play honestly and heroically this life’ game.

 

Be a kerchief for someone’s tears

Be Lord Ram’s squirrel to gift cheers.

Be as generous as the king Harischandra

Be as kind as the great Rain god Indra.

 

Dig not a ditch ever for other

Be for the thirsty a cool pitcher.

Be for the diseased a supporting stretcher

Be not a mean, malicious and selfish creature.

 

Flow, like the Ganga, your munificence

Bear, like the coconut shell, all essence.

Be unperturbed like the tolerant mountain

Spread joy in others’ life like a fountain.

 

Refresh your aura with the scent of noble deeds

Sow in the fallow lands your virtue action seeds.

Bury your corpse of vicious and hateful habits

In life, only a diligent, triumphs, never defeats.

 

Be softer than heavenly flowers

Be fresher than spontaneous showers.

Be sweeter than delicious honey

Be more precious than magical money.

 

Be not ever a pestering insect

Be not prone to detect others’s defect.

Be ever kind like Kindness to all

You can surely beat the grave, my pal mortal.

 

Ref. courtesy: Google

*Lord Ram’s squirrel - Lord Rama and his army of monkeys were preparing for war with Ravana.

Rama asked his army to build the bridge over the sea. Work began at once on a stone bridge.

The monkeys pulled out rocks and heavy stones from the mountains, and carried them to the sea.

One day, Rama saw a small brown squirrel going up and down the seashore with little pebbles in his mouth. He carried the pebbles from the seashore and dropped them into the sea. Being pleased with the little sqirrel’s love for him, he gently stroked the back of the squirrel with his fingers, and three lines appeared where the Lord’s fingers had touched it. Then it was believed that the marks on the back of the squirrels were the marks of Lord Rama’s fingers.

 

*Harishchandra - Harishchandra is a legendary Indian king, who appears in several legends in texts such as Aitareya Brahmana, Mahabharata, the Markandeya Purana, and the Devi-Bhagavata Purana.The most famous of these stories is the one mentioned in Markandeya Purana. According to this legend, Harishchandra gave away his kingdom, sold his family and agreed to be a slave – all to fulfill a promise he had made to the sage Vishwamitra.

* Rain god Indra - In the Vedas, Indra is the king of Svarga (Heaven) and the Devas. He is the god of lightning, thunder, storms, rains and river flows. ... Indra destroys Vritra and his "deceiving forces", and thereby brings rains and the sunshine as the friend of mankind

 

* munificence - generosity

* pal – friend

 

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GOD MADE A UNIQUE DEPUTY CALLED ‘MOTHER

 

Who can walk on the burning fire

In order to give birth to soothing water?

Who can jump into contaminated mire

If it does, a little bit for you, matter?

 

Who can devour pernicious poison

In order to produce for you nectar?

Who can woo a humiliating prison

To fetch you a blissful heaven?

 

Who can sling the cursed Alratross

Boldly for your own crime and sin?

Who can atone through penance rigorous

And bear the stings of the adverse vermin?

 

Who can hug hunger and kiss starvation

If it matters a little for your elation?

Who can befriend eagerly premature death

If it matters a little for your health and wealth?

 

Who can dwell in a hideous hell

Yet pray for you a blithe paradise?

Who can fast, to see you live long and well

Till embraces, for you, unreluctant demise?

 

Who can spend endless sleepless nights

In order to fetch you boundless delights?

Who can toil like a never ceaseless stream

In order to materialise your life’s dream?

 

None, none is so sweet a substitue for Her

None, none can, in any respect, replace Her

None, none can, as She is, be so close and dear

So, God made a unique Deputy called “Mother’!

 

N.M: MY SALUTE TO ALL THE MOTHERS IN THE WORLD ON THIS AUSPICIOUS ‘MOTHER’S DAY’.

 

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TIME

 

TIME is the most benevolent Begetter

The kindest Mother

The most useful Guide

The most dutiful Torch Bearer

The cruelest-most graceful Master

The harshest Deviator

The most impartial Chastiser

The best Healer

The noblest Teacher

The holiest Preacher

The most infallible curtain Wrapper

The boldest hearse Carrier

The humblest funeral Fire

The unique Creator, Controller and Annihilator…..!

 

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SONG OF LIFE

 

My birth is a noble and decorous mission

I must embrace it with a humble submission.

I must give up sloth, comfort and cozy sleep,

Until I reach my goal, must I sweat and skip.

 

Mission is a two syllabic term, easy to pronounce

But, it is as vast as an ocean, alas! I own not an ounce.

It raptly yearns to pile virtue; scornful sin renounce,

To serve the needy; not to as a beast of prey pounce.

 

It should be a bounteous tree that gifts all free

That sucks the Sun and soaks the buffets in glee,

That gives out cool shade, oxygen, and daily bread

That eagerly provides service to all in ways myriad.

 

 

It should be a strong, steady, firm and tolerant hill

That is the origin for countless springs and rivers

That is an inexhaustible store of Nature’s favours

That is a perennial donor without a single bill!

 

It should be a sweet, diligent and sacrificing bee

Ever in action, never misuses the valuable life idly,

Collects honey to fill its hollow, generous hive

Ah! To end its life without crime being burnt alive.

 

It should be a lofty and shining beacon light

That keeps guiding the directionless in delight,

Unaffected by the tempests, cyclones or storms

Determined to illuminate and distribute charms.

 

It should be the never shirking and neglectful polestar

A firm believer in duty, that never alters its altar,

Well-known for its unique radiance and sincerity

Ever adored for its equanimity and engaging serenity.

 

It should be a milch cow, a symbol of munificence

Born to bear, love and care with no selfish sense.

Its magnanimous bounty is really par excellence

The only beast whose dung bears godly essence.

 

It should be water, sine it futile is all beauty creams

Oh! It is omni-present in all the living organisms.

Yes, being inanimate it is the force of animation

Ah! A rare boon of Nature, least is all adulation.

 

Thus, let life’s song be sung by a universal chorus

Let life be sublime, and celestially prosperous

Let life surpass all other exemplary examples

Let life live for eternity like unusual samples.

 

*sine – without

* adulation – adoration

 

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YOUR BEAUTY

 

You are indeed gifted with a lustrous look

Your beauty glistens like a Moonlit brook. 

Your sprightly agility removes all fragility

In your pleasing presence flees slyly futility!

 

Beauty on your cheeks shines like fresh butter

Beauty on your lips spurs the love-bird to flutter

Beauty in your glance enriches every trivial matter

Oh! Who else looks more beautiful and better?

 

Beauty in your hair does tickle, fondle and pamper

Beauty on your chin does unceasingly mutter

Beauty on your features does whisper to flatter

What evil spirit is bold enough to mar it and tamper?

 

Your beauty enviably embellishes your love’s heart garden

Yes, beauty sprites like you transform the earth into an Eden!

 

©Shankar D Mishra 05.05.2017

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DEAR FRIENDS, I AM POSTING HERE THE GOLD MEDAL WINNING POEM IN THE GROUP “NUGGETS FROM NATURE” IN YESTERDAY’S CONTEST. THE TITLE OF THE POEM WAS THE THEME. I THANK M. DAMODAR CHARY SIR ALONG WIH HIS ENTIRE TEAM FOR THEIR HIGH POETIC ACUMEN TO CONFER UPON MY POEM THE GOLD MEDAL SO GENEROUSLY. THANK U ALL MY READERS TOO.

 

O GOD! LET ME BE A FLOWER AT THY FEET!

 

 

O God! Thou hast blest me with a wonderful life

A chaste, devout, ever loving and caring wife,

Gusto, zeal, vigour and valour to win the cold strife.

Ah! Thou art Omni-present, and Thy miracle is rife.

 

Thou hast bestowed on me Reason to hug virtue and skip sin

Thou hast poured on me scruples to be noble, and not be mean

Thou hast endowed on me power to consume for the needy

Thou hast enriched me with a conscience never to be greedy!

 

Thou hast gifted me with unique parents, who brought me here

So that I can, by means of good deeds, make the world better

Can leave an indelible footprint by means of your Divine Grace

Can blossom like a flower to spray peace, and heavenly solace!

 

But, let me be granted, O the Ocean of Mercy a last wish!

Let me be a man of flower to lie at Thy Sacred Lotus feet

And enjoy Thy first gracious, purifying Glance, a rare treat,

Lest, snared by mundane mire, I should miss salvation- Bliss!

 

 

©Shankar D Mishra 04.05.2017

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LET’S NOT CONNIVE AT OUR LACUNA

 

How much sweet and delectable an apple may be

If it is not edible, it is sure to decorate a dust bin.

How much strong, sturdy and robust one may be

One is the feeblest, if one commits an ignoble sin.

 

How much physical beauty one is bestowed with

One is still ugly unless it is alien to one’s actions.

How much name and fame one may have gained

It is futile unless one is devoid of compassions.

 

What much height one may ceaselessly scale or soar

One is still at the bottom unless hearts can’t be reached.

What enlightening and inspiring sermons one can preach

One is hollow and jejune, unless they can be practised.

 

Let’s not then cultivate what has no everlasting use

Let’s not connive at our lacunas, lest we should sob profuse!

 

NB: The plural form of lacuna is also lacunae

*lacuna – missing or absence of essence in something

* delectable - delicious

* jejune – immature, empty

 

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THE SOLILOQUY OF A MIRROR

 

I am a lifeless Mirror, yet livelier than anyone else

I am eyeless, yet I can see better than anyone else

I am not a judge, yet my judgment is unquestionable

I have no brain, yet my conscience is unfathomable!

 

I am only an honorary representative of the Almighty God

I am only a selfless benefactor to obey the Decree of my Lord

I am only an unbiased volunteer to serve you dutifully unpaid

Yes, under all circumstances, I am calm, passive and fully staid!

 

I have no role in praising or despising your outward contour

I am to only apprise whether it is sweet normal or abnormal sour.

So, let me neither be lavishly eulogized, nor be bitterly censured

Let me not be grimaced, nor be dotingly hugged with a reward!

 

Without my free service, how can you assess your fleshy features

How can you beautify and embellish you, the mortal creatures?

I am only a detached and obedient disciple of the great Nature

I wish you all to follow my untrodden footprints, and nurture.

 

Listen! There is a subtle mirror meticulously set in every person.

Have you ever peeped into to see its impartial manifestation?

It exhibits your Inner Self in an incredibly explicit fashion,

Follow it every passing instant for Moksha – your Destination.

 

* SOLILOQUY – a talking to oneself, a speech of this nature made by a character in a play

* eulogized – praised excessively, * grimaced – made a disagreeable face

 

This poem is inspired by Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror’.

 

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LABOUR’S FLAVOUR

 

Dip, dip in the deep river of labour

Your rigid sins of sloth and laziness will shiver.

You will be blisfully blest with Bounty’s favour

You and ‘wants’ will be easily estranged forever.

 

Rub, rub the royal Sandalwood of labour

It will soon the fragrance of success deliver.

It will make you a lovely and worthy liver

Lo! It is the panacea to your painful penury fever.

 

Stud, stud your life’s crown with the gems of labour

It will keep dazzling brightly even in the nights darker.

It will pave your ways for your perennial Joy’s coronation

From the awful pangs of bondage it will confer liberation!

 

Scale, scale the stiff and steep steps of labour

You are sure to relish nectaric Salvation’s flavour.

 

N.B: This poem is addressed to all the idlers in the world. 

COURTESY GOOGLE: May Day also known as Labour Day or International Workers' Day is celebrated every year on 1st May. This day is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and also celebrated unofficially in many other countries.

 

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LABOUR

 

Yes, the key to every success is labour

Fortune smiles on them who rely on labour.

Deafeat runs away where reigns only labour

Those are so happy who do cultivatre labour.

 

Labour is a sweet nut beset with a hard nut

Those can relish its flavour who can crack it well,

But those who shirk it lament and moan in a hell

Throughout life with a sour debacle they do dwell.

 

Labour is mirror like impartial and just

Its lovers do thrive while its haters do burst.

Its devotees smile while its adversaries shed tears

Generously it blesses all who hug it without fears.

 

Labour pours on all peace, prosperity and self-esteem

Labour grants all to gladly materialize every dream

Labour is the most loyal friend to one and all

It never lets anyone lown or lets anyone fall.

 

Let’s mould the rings of labour

Let’s wreathe the beads of labour

Let’s store the wealth of labour

Let’s shower the aroma of labour.

 

Let’s plant the saplings of labour

Let’s pen down scriptures of labour

Let’s engrave the immortality of labour 

Let’ chant, “Labour is our life Savour.”

 

Let’s feel the dignity of labour and respect the labourers

Let’s not idle away time and bribe for undue favours

Let’s all labour to build a sweet heaven on Earth

Let’s all add meaning and sense to our unique birth.

 

N.B: COURTESY GOOGLE: This poem is dedicated to all the labourers in the world. May Day also known as Labour Day or International Workers' Day celebrated every year on 1st May. This day is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and also celebrated unofficially in many other countries.

 

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OURS IS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO VINOD KHANNA

 

Ah! Came to a woeful close the role of of a dazzling reel-real life

As the all devouring cancer pierced through you a cruel knife!

A voice of sorcerous enchantment and amusement hushed forever

An actor and a persona par excellence will prevail again never!

 

What a conscientious and law abiding child you were!

Not to fish petty public pity and trifling media glare, 

You kept your agonizing malady a top, fail-safe secret

Until your crumbling fate ultimately collapsed of late!

 

Yours was surely an illuminating and illustrious era

That was meticulously grafted with an awesome aura

That captivated and mesmerized the viewers all around

Among the dominant Stars on the stiff, slippery ground!

 

As a most favoured and favourite Hero of millions of fans

You stole many hearts with your inimitable performance.

To have a gifted Star like you was indeed a golden chance

You were indeed ‘one piece’, your lofty acting past instance!

 

Yet, ah! descended all those who did ascend one day

You were, undoubtedly, one of many an inoblivious Ray.

May your grand soul rest in everlasting peace!

How can you know, to what an extent we do miss?

 

May many Vinod Khannas, your clones, take birth on Earth

Else, who will pass your enviable legacy of spraying mirth?

As Nature’s behest must be carried out with utmost salute

May you kindly accept with love ours this ‘Humble Tribute’?

 

* sorcerous – magical, * slippery ground – Bollywood

 

N.B: Courtesy Google: Vinod Khanna was an Indian actor and producer of Bollywood films. He was the recipient of two Filmfare awards. He was also an active politician and was the MP from the Gurdaspur constituency between 1998–2009 and 2014–2017. Wikipedia

Born: 6 October 1946, Peshawar, Pakistan

Died: 27 April 2017, Mumbai

Spouse: Kavita Khanna (m. 1990), Geetanjali Khanna (m. 1971–1985)

Children: Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Khanna, Sakshi Khanna, Shraddha Khanna

Awards: Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, more

Education: Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, Barnes School

 

©Shankar D Mishra 30.04.2017

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TO THE SPRING

 

O Spring! How high your highness is unlike me!

Your perpetual perfection is always at the acme,

Lo! I am lying at the disgraceful, fathomless bottom.

My mundane mind gives way to glorify your stardom!

 

O Spring! How much transparent and resplendent you are!

Ah! Pretence and concealment are aliens in your unique realm.

Neither arrogant nor complacent ever in life you are,

Blessed surely you are for your invaluable share!

 

O Spring! At your sight, my eyes relish immeasurable delight

Your sparks and sparkles are the marks of a radiant beacon light

May your nectaric touch reign and prevail on earth forever!

May I be cleansed and consecrated with your heavenly favour!

 

May all commonplaces mingle with you to be like you special!

May your Mercy make the Earth a Paradise, which is most crucial!

 

* acme - top

* gives way – fails, falls back, 

* stardom – prominence

* resplendent – bright, dazzling

*beacon - guiding light, 

* consecrated – made sacred

 

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PASS, SURPASS AND TRESPASS

 

Those, who pass gifts generously, are very noble

Those, who pass time meaningfully, are so insightful

Those, who are experts, pass the balls to register goals

Those, who fight sincerely, never lose lives’ struggles.

 

Those, who are extraordinary, easily surpass one and all

Those, who are outstanding, surpass many an adverse fall

Those who are exceptional surpass every odd and obstacle

Those, who are remarkable, surpass the mundane Fame of Hall.

 

Those are poachers, who illegally trespass others’ property

Those are despots, who trespass others’s invaluable liberty

Those are beasts who trespass against morality and humanity

Those who trespass all ethics give birth to mean irrationality.

 

O God! Let me never either surpass or trespass to harass.

Unlike embarrassing hyacinth, let me my humble life pass.

 

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Some are ever prone only to spit on others venom

Some prove nothing but being an apple of Sodom

Some only vaguely beat about the bush at random

Some love to inhabit a hell of bottomless fathom!

 

Some rejoice only at others’ painful deterioration

Some too gambol at others’ unwelcome frustration 

Some exhale spite and malice at others’s renown

Some unduly demand for an undeserving crown!

 

Some revel at being reasons for others’ bleeding gash

Some delight in pushing others to fall in ditch and splash

Some chuckle to see others haplessly dash and crash

Some pride in being evil, hypocritic, diplomatic and rash! 

 

Some dream to pluck the moon during a sunny day

Some are gloomed if others are glad and gay

Some, to spoil cuckoos’ melody, bitterly bray

Some learn not from the buffets of their foul-play!

 

Some are born only to burn others’ heard earned joy

Some pose to be gold, despite being slag and alloy

Some suckle only to suck, and embrace only to efface

Alas! Some fall prey to their own made malicious Mess!

  

Let’s keep ourselves away from these distracting ‘Some’

Let’s only mind our own business being rock solid and firm.

Let’s only stick to our unshakable morals and noble norms

Let’s wait till Time beats our honest, unbribed victory drums.

 

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My aim is not to advertise myself as an established publisher, but to enlighten and entertain my readers. Had I not received tremendous acceptance and acknowledgement from across the globe for my poems posted on my Timeline as well as many esteemed Groups, I would not have thought of this mission. 

 

THIS IS MY MISSION

 

“Oh! Could I be the great Gandhiji’s a loyal disciple

Could I follow Nelson Mandela’s praise-worthy principle

Could I practice Mother Teresa’ inimitable, selfless service

Could I turn the globe an abode of love, harmony and peace!”

 

Thank u, all my poetry lovers for your unconditional love and support.

 

A SONNET ON MY BELOVED

 

You are the richest of the rich blooms, indeed

You are the rarest seed of the costliest breed

You are the sweetest fruit of the noblest deed:

Past commonplace, far above the mean greed

Born only to bear, always from the front to lead

With least cravings for the trifling and trivial need,

Living to foster, nurture, nourish and caringly feed.

Ah! The loveliest precedent of the friendship creed!

 

What a fluke it is be blessed with your glowing grace

To win your prettiest heart in a too stiff and tough race

To savour your heavenly aroma with complete solace

To salute to your sincerity and loyalty par excellence

To wrap you gently with my softest, purest Love Lace

And treasure you forever in my soul’s subtlest Case!

 

* fluke - stroke of good luck

 

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AH! THE WRETCHED MOUNTAINS

 

Mountains teach, for their outward beauty, like the distant Moon

Should not be taken for granted emotionally and blindly so soon.

Even though they, for their invaluable gifts, surpass many a boon

Many romantic loons are hypnotized by the both to sing and croon!

 

Still, no doubt, mountains are the throbbing hearts of Nature

They are teemed with priceless and life sustaining treasure

That is too much for any worldly calculator to scale and measure

Without mountains, would have been dried all our sweet pleasure!

 

Mountains are undoubtedly the Earth’s biggest water pumps

They store in their invaluable mines so costly metal lumps.

Manifold and myriad flora and fauna so gladly dwell there

Their matchless contributions to the Earth are really rare!

 

Still, they are not even spared from the greedy human glare

Days nd nights they do shed invisible tears and do silently blare,

For, they are brutally and steadily blasted, cut and murdered

No less than games, they are the easy preys to be massacred.

 

They are seared, singed, sawed and constantly scrubbed

They are looted, burgled, plundered and pitilessly robbed.

They are beheaded, executed, blown and blatantly erased

They are, by means of destructive machines, daily grazed!

 

They so lovingly all of us feed, drink and nurture

Oh! We, the disloyal humans, exploit them and torture!

Unless we change our trends and mend our brutal nature

Imminently, our lives’ tubes are certainly to puncture!

 

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SONG OF THE TREES

 

Ah! We so fondly hug you,

But, you so cruelly cut us.

We so warmly suckle you,

But, you so coldly suck us.

We so dotingly provide water to you to drink

But, you so callously dry us to wither and shrink.

We so affectionately feed your bellies with food,

But, you so relentlessly fell us and demolish for good.

We so lovingly furnish you with shade

But, you so devilishly demolish our shed.

We so tenderly fan you not to sweat 

But, you, in return, so heartlessly detest us and hate.

We so selflessly supply timber for your shelter

But, you so treacherously scare us to stampede helter skelter.

We so nicely embellish you with lovely flowers

But, you so disdainfully curse us with cruelty showers.

We take every care so that you breathe well,

But, you torture us, and push us to a suffocation hell.

We always try utmost to keep you healthy and wealthy,

But, you always treat us worst, mutilate us to be filthy.

Oh! We, most ironically, give you all invaluable birth,

But, you so frenziedly try to efface us from the Earth!

 

Still, like your oppressed, suppressed, but selfless parents

We mind less about your ignominious misdemeanour,

Rather, we take pity on you, for we can’t see you disappear:

How can we behold you in an imminent, utter disaster?

How can we help sobbing , finding you wretchedly cry?

How can we rest in peace viewing you haplessly lie?

How can we heave a sigh of respite and relief

When we notice you in the worst hellish grief?

How can we bear with to watch you wriggle and die?

How can we bid you an untimely, bitter goodbye?

 

Still we are baking the bakes of endless hope

You, our offspring, will not any more swerve and grope

Will no more turn deaf ears to our earnest prayer

Will no more be blind to your grave and fatal blunder

Will no more connive at your purulent perversion

Will sooner or later make a better diversion

Will rectify and mend your contemptible ways

Will treat us as you treat your parents in their heydays

Will love and care for us as you nurture your own children

There will be solace, harmony and normalcy in Nature again

Natural cycles will revive and stick to their customary course

We will again be the whole creation’s richest, safest resource

The lost smiles, laughters and joys will reign as usual, forever

Paradise will descend on the Earth for sure; this is our song, dear.

 

* swerve – go astray, * purulent – like pus, 

* perversion – going away from the right path

 

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SPRING TIME

 

Hey! Lo! The vernal breeze heralds the advent of the Spring

The cuckoos and company are rehearsing to pipe and sing,

Nature in Her gravid attire is preparing to wear flowery rings

For, She will host an imperial Guest, a unique King of kings!

 

Ah! The sky above is clear, light and cloudless

The Earth down is full of peace, bliss and solace,

The pleasant Sun of the delicious dawn showers coolness

The soothing noon, and the silvery Moon drain dullness!

 

The busy humming of the bees, the upbeat swinging of the trees

The sprightly leaps of the brooks, the buoyant skips of the Seas,

The floral canopy of the woods, and gay rides by many a ship

Ejaculate smiles in the hills, vales and countries on every lip!

 

Pleased peasants, oblivious of hardships, feast on their heydays

The newly rapturous couples blush, gloat, gleam and glaze,

Holi blows the shell of festive colours ahead of joy and mirth

Yes, Nature gives birth to a rare Heaven on this mundane Earth!

 

* vernal – related to spring season, * gravid – pregnant

* imperial – majestic, * upbeat – cheerful, * 

* buoyant – cheerful, happy, * ejaculate – spring

* oblivious – forgetful, * rapturous – overjoyed

* mundane – ordinary

 

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RELATION

 

Relation rests upon the concurrent reciprocity

Relation is built upon the plinth of honesty

Relation is erected upon the anvil of integrity

Relation is nurtured by the pious dish of modesty. 

 

Relation is as precious as costly diamond jewels

Here no feeling of superiority or inferiority dwells.

Sacrifice is its everlasting and perennial Beauty

It is not maintained merely like a tedious duty.

 

Relation between hearts is a lovely conjunction

It is latent in blood, not in false and vain fashion.

Unshaken longevity is its pleasing, charming fruition

In its perpetuity lies a divine, nectaric benediction.

 

Let’s all adhere to an unalloyed, dignified relation

It is to all gaps, an isthmus, a, sweet, benefic solution.

 

* concurrent – agreeing , * tedious – dull, boring

* fruition – completion, * perpetuity - time without end

* benediction – blessing, * isthmus – a neck of land 

connecting two larger portions, *benefic – favourable

 

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THE MAGICAL EFFECTS OF CHANTING ‘RAM NAM’

 

A sincere and devout chanting of ‘Ram Nam’

With Its refurbishing and Panacean Charm;

Destroys the devil forces deep-rooted in man

Eliminates the evil powers inherent in man.

 

It kills his cancerous and destructive propensity

It annihilates his odious and heinous anxiety

It pulverizes his intoxicating and lusty passions

It chars his rusty, harmful and eroding emotions.

 

It beatifies the chanter with a heavenly beatitude and bliss 

It bestows him oceans of perennial ambrosia and Peace

It showers upon him a cascade of everlasting serenity

It purifies a mean monster into a master of morality.

 

Thus, let the nectaric chanting of ‘Ram Nam’ bless one and all

Let It lead all to the path of ‘Moksha’, birth’s Ultimate Goal.

 

This gold medal wining poem in the SPIRITUAL POETRY FOR ALL GROUP, was dedicated to Lord Shri Ram on the holy occasion of Ram Navmi.

 

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I

 

 

I am ever prone to finding an easy shortcut to success

Skilled at, by hook or by crook, winning the race!

I am ever susceptible to relish and enjoy blood and flesh

Rash and reckless to roam untying my Conscience’s Lace!

 

I am adroit at blossoming pseudo and spurious smiles

Peerless in practising many gullible and devious guiles

Accustomed to playing the ignoble and vile

Pretending, after two scores of age, to be still puerile!

 

I am efficient in barnishing untruth and wrong

Well-accomplished in coining broken a prose a sweet song

Shrewd and wily to hoodwink all including myself

Diplomatic enough to define exploitation as a new pelf!

 

I am well-versed with practising inconceivable pretence

Talented enough to win not only hearts but also credence

Deft and trained to make hay even in the heavy rains

A professional to muster gains even without any pains!

 

I am competent in accomplishing enticing conceits

A master craftsman in cultivating delicious deceits

Under all circumstances fully adaptable and fit

Than a philanthropic Samaritan more a little bit!

 

I can overshadow anyone in tactics and treachery

Supersede effortlessly anyone in obnoxious lechery!

I am more clean and tidy in culpable perjury

A commendable artist in unusual forgery!

 

I am flawless and infallible in base bewitchery

Heartless and boastful in savage butchery

Bent, lent and indulgent in worst debauchery

Oh! World famous for my foolproof witchery!

 

In changing colours, I can beat an unbeatable chameleon

You can find me only one in an innumerable trillion!

I am Modern Time’s the superlative scion

I am the concrete jungle’s pet, loving Lion!

 

I am learned to extract cream from stagnant water

I am efficient in churning from catchy words butter

In cunningness I am smarter than the smartest

Trust me, I am the matchless traitor in every respect!

 

I am better a preacher than a desirable practitioner

I can hardly be stunned albeit an incredible stunner

I can surpass the shrewdest diplomats in diplomacy

Yes, no better hypocrites can equal me in hypocrisy!

 

I am really sad to say, “Glad to meet you!”

I am really glad to bid, “Sad to see off you!”

I am really pained to pronounce, “Pinnacle be with you!”

I am really thankless to wish, “I am so much thankful to you!”

 

Oh! I can swim like fish over the fresh dawn’s dew

I am the oldest, cheapest wine in the costliest bottle new

I am an honest human being though all my debts are overdue

O that! I could truly determine my intricate “I’s” Real Hue!

 

N.B: This poem is inspired by Dasharath Naik Sir’s poem “I SANS ME’. Thank u Dasharath Sir for inspiring me.

 

* devious – tricky/ tricky

*two scores – twenty plus twenty

* puerile – childish/immature

* bewitchery – the power to control natural forces through supernatural means

* butchery – savage killing of a large number of people/animals

* debauchery – excessive indulgent in sex, alcohol or drugs

*witchery – the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events

* albeit – although

 

©Shankar D Mishra 23.05.2017

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THE SOLILOQUY OF A MIRROR

 

I am a lifeless Mirror, yet livelier than anyone else

I am eyeless, yet I can see better than anyone else

I am not a judge, yet my judgment is unquestionable

I have no brain, yet my conscience is unfathomable!

 

I am only an honorary representative of the Almighty God

I am only a selfless benefactor to obey the Decree of my Lord

I am only an unbiased volunteer to serve you dutifully unpaid

Yes, under all circumstances, I am calm, passive and fully staid!

 

I have no role in praising or despising your outward contour

I am to only apprise whether it is sweet normal or abnormal sour.

So, let me neither be lavishly eulogized, nor be bitterly censured

Let me not be grimaced, nor be dotingly hugged with a reward!

 

Without my free service, how can you assess your fleshy features

How can you beautify and embellish you, the mortal creatures?

I am only a detached and obedient disciple of the great Nature

I wish you all to follow my untrodden footprints, and nurture.

 

Listen! There is a subtle mirror meticulously set in every person.

Have you ever peeped into to see its impartial manifestation?

It exhibits your Inner Self in an incredibly explicit fashion,

Follow it every passing instant for Moksha – your Destination.

 

* SOLILOQUY – a talking to oneself, a speech of this nature made by a character in a play

* eulogized – praised excessively, * grimaced – made a disagreeable face

 

This poem is inspired by Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror’.

 

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DIVINE CRAZE

 

Lo! As a small patch of cloud devours

Effortlessly the grotesque, glazing Sun

Reducing His ardent light, pilfers life rendering powers

Making Him dull, drab and invisible sans precaution;

Yields a millions of eclipses, darker than black clouds

A divine defiance; beckons ruins, and progress shrouds!

 

O God how much one may have affluence

But, but for Thy divine, efficacious Grace

One lives in penury, scarcity and indigence,

Confined to rot inside the Interminable Fence !

 

Hence, O God! Please thicken my beliefs in Thee

More than the roots of a tree that grasps to the soil.

Grant me peace, serenity and beatitude ineffably

Come may storms or quakes, calmly Thou wilt foil!

 

* Interminable Fence – the mundane earth

 

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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 commiting 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.

 

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CURIOSITY

 

Ask a writer what curiosity is,

When his first creation is successfully published.

Ask a scientist what curiosity is,

When his invention or discovery is well accomplished.

 

Ask a lover what curiosity is,

When his beloved accepts his love, and is pleased. 

Ask a player what curiosity is,

When his feats make his mates elated; his rivals teased.

 

Ask a maiden what curiosity is,

When she is engaged to her sweet man.

Ask a lady what curiosity is,

When she gives birth to a baby new born.

 

Ask a student what curiosity is,

When he tops the list of the examinees.

Ask an employee what curiosity is,

When he draws the first remuneration of his.

 

Ask an artiste what curiosity is,

When the audience applauds him with standing ovation.

Ask a C.M or P.M what curiosity is,

When he wins, in the House, a no-confidence Motion.

 

Ask a newly married bride what curiosity is,

When she is hugged and loved first time by her Endymion.

You ask yourself what curiosity is,

When you are declared only a one piece in a million.

 

Ask a farmer what curiosity is,

When his salty sweats yield sweet, golden beads.

Ask a lawyer what curiosity is,

When he acquits his client after he flawlessly pleads.

 

Ask a teacher what curiosity is,

When he sincerely shapes and moulds a society’s Fate.

Ask a doctor what curiosity is,

When his efforts eventually win over an imminent death.

 

Ask a beggar what curiosity is,

When he is fed with rice and dal to his heart’s content.

Ask a child what curiosity is,

When he is gifted with candies and teddies to his consent.

 

Ask parents what curiosity is,

When their children become role models for others.

Ask a country what curiosity is,

When her people glorify the honour and dignity of Hers.

 

Ask Mother Nature what curiosity is,

When Her treasuries are used for Universal peace.

Ask a divine seeker what curiosity is,

When he is blessed with eternal, ecstatic Bliss.

 

Ask a lovely bud what curiosity is,

When it grows to be a blossom, and is kissed by butterflies.

Ask a shower what curiosity is,

When its soothing touch does a parched earth please.

 

Ask the Spring what curiosity is,

When It turns with Its magic the world into a Paradise.

Ask a day what curiosity is,

When night recedes and the Sun danwns with a light prize.

 

Ask a bird what curiosity is,

When the cage is open, and its owner is fast asleep.

Ask a calf what curiosity is,

When it is set free to go to its mother and her udders sip.

 

Ask a gardener what curiosity is,

When his garden smiles and rejoices in the breeze.

Ask a night what curiosity is,

When the Full Moon scintillates the hills, planes and seas.

 

Ask Duty-Deity what curiosity is,

When He is embraced with love, devotion and praise.

Ask Life what curiosity is,

When It attains sweet Salvation, Its Ultimate Wage.

 

©Shankar D Mishra 28 .03.2017

 

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THIS IS THE WORLD

 

The whole world is an enigmatic stage

All humans are the actors here to play:

Some role for censure, and others for praise

Some make others sad, some make others gay.

 

Some here play the jovial, jocular clowns

Others do act to wear dazzling crowns.

Some are only to flutter, fret and frown

Others play to go up and some to go down.

 

Some are kind enough to wipe others’ tears

Others are cruel to endanger; arouse fears.

Some are adorned with love and cheers

Others are armoured with powders and spears.

 

Some are glad to live for others

Others are glad to live on others.

Some are glad to give, donate and sacrifice

Others are glad to suck as leeches and lice.

 

Some are plain, honest, erudite and pious

Others are knotty, ungrateful and ambitious.

Some are props of the crippled and the needy

Others cripple others, for they are too greedy.

 

Some are philanthropic, and light like feathers

Others are bent upon digging ditches for others.

Some gift, sweeten and delight as honey-hives

Others steal, rob and kill to lead selfish lives.

 

Some extend co-operations and pay off others’ loans

Others unlawfully seize, snap and grab others’ thrones.

Some live as if they were great heavens for others

Others exist as if they were worse than a curse.

 

Some make a Chair known with their own Unique Presence

Others come to be known due to a Unique Chair’s Essence. 

Some live as if they were to die like bubbles and disappear

Others die as if they were to live like stars to shine and appear.

 

N.B: This poem is inspired by Shakespeare’s poem “All the World Is a Stage”. I am happy to post this poem on the WORLD THEATRE DAY.

 

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HOW CAN THIS WORLD BE MADE A HEAVEN?

 

This is so vast, rare and unique a world;

Gifted with rich mines of platinum, diamond and gold

Replete with lakes, springs, rivers, seas and oceans

Teemed with beautiful plants, creatures and mountains

Bestowed with miraculous science, technology and brains

Endowed with magical bikes, cars, buses, trains and planes!

 

Amenities are abundantly available at finger tips

Space is conquered by spacecrafts; water by ships.

Comfort, luxury and pleasure are accumulated in heaps

Tickets are booked before months for long distance trips

Diseases are disabled by novel, Nobel Researches

The world beyond is fetched in a jiffy by Net searches!

 

Yet, all the aforesaid are only for the privileged men

What does it matter to the poor, deprived children?

Do the deserts gain, if in the water bodies, it rains?

What do they gain if the Poles are cooled with fans?

 

Today, million stomachs are yet to be adequately fed

Today, million shelters are yet to be inevitably made

Today, million minds are yet to be indispensably taught

Today, million bitter battles are yet to be bravely fought

Today, million forests are yet to be imperatively planted

Today, million wants are yet to be benevolently granted

Today, million wounds are yet to be successfully healed

Today, million perpetrators are yet to be nabbed and stilled

Today, million men are yet to be saved from being cruelly killed

Today, million corruption cases are yet to be effaced and nilled

Today, million harmful ozone holes are yet to be urgently mended

Today, million culprits are yet to be duly punished and reprimanded 

Today, million anti-humans are yet to be boldly, immediately jailed

Today, million innocent captives are yet to be released and bailed

Today, million pending, teasing issues are yet to be sensibly settled

Today, million puzzles are yet to be correctly solved and fizzled

Today, million dark clouds are yet to be removed and unloomed

Today, million smiles are yet to be blossomed and bloomed

Today, million under nourished engines are yet to be driven

Then only can this world be made for all a blissful a Heaven.

 

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O GOD! I SEEK THY COMPANY.

 

O God!

A dusty figure I am,

A rusty bone I am,

A lusty spirit I am,

A frosty entity I am!

 

O God!

An insane omnivore I am,

An unintelligible enigma I am,

An unpredictable uncertainty I am,

An utter tomfool existence I am!

 

O God!

A groping wayfarer I am,

A wrecking voyager I am,

A plumeless flyer I am,

A sure to perish bubble I am!

 

O God!

Whatsoever may be I,

I seek Thy Company when I die…..

©Shankar D Mishra 29.06.2018SKIN

 

If this is the same unnoticed skin,

That did once glitteringly shine,

Did play seductive pantomimes,

Did recite unheard impulsive rhymes:

To excite irrational passion,

To ignite swerving emotion,

To ramify riotous revolution,

To register drastic devolution,

To kindle rash equine sensation,

To dwindle the sweet Salvation!

 

But, why does it now fail,

When rugged, withered and frail:

As odious as an ugly reptile slough,

As disdainful as a dead, decomposed claw,

To retain the past mesmerizing magic,

To withstand Nature’s fool-proof logic?

 

Alas! It now succumbs to dejection and decadence,

Forced to flee in quest of an unobtrusive bushy fence!

 

Glossary:

seductive – alluring for lust or sensual activity

pantomimes – the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech

impulsive – reckless/guided by impulses

rhymes - poems

excite - stimulate

irrational - unreasonable

passion – excitement/strong feeling

ignite - set fire to

swerving – going astray/ leaving the moral path

emotion - feeling

ramify - increase

riotous – uncontrolled/ rebellious

revolution – revolt/ rebellion

register - record

drastic - extreme

degradation – going on the wrong path

kindle – stimulate/ fire up

rash - careless

equine – related to the sexual intensity of horses

sensation – exciting feeling

dwindle – decrease/ decrease

rugged - rough

withered – dried/shrunken

frail - weak

odious - hateful/foul smelling

reptile - snake

slough – skin of a snake

disdainful – scornful/hateful

decomposed – rotten/ decayed

retain – keep/ maintain

mesmerizing – thrilling/ exciting

withstand - endure

fool-proof – perfect/ infallible

succumbs - gives way/ surrenders

dejection – depression/ misery

decadence – process of falling into an inferior condition or state/decay/deterioration

flee - run away

in quest of - looking for

unobtrusive – not drawing attention/unnoticed/unremarkable

 

bushy fence – a hiding place, away from the public notice

 

©Shankar D Mishra 13.06.2018

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SIMPLE MEN

 

Simplicity is good men’s food,

Humility is their unique hood.

They are neither hypocritical nor proud,

Their honest deeds speak for them aloud.

 

Prick they never in life anyone,

They are never a piercing thorn.

They are not at all a chameleon,

Whether it is noon, dusk or dawn.

 

They stick to their business own,

To controversy! They are never prone.

They never grumble, growl and groan,

They lend others, but never take a loan.

 

Silence is their mightiest weapon,

Tolerance is their unusual royal gown,

Divine grace is their costly crown,

Let’s bow at them and hug them as own.

 

They are the genuine gems on Earth,

They alone enjoy unalloyed mirth.

Let’s all abide by their peaceful path,

To make our base life full of worth.

 

They never ever spew heinous venom,

They are never ever an apple of Sodom.

Their noble thoughts are never slanted,

Ah! They should not be taken for granted.

 

They are the true Kinsmen of kind Nature,

Who serves Love, sucks torturous rancour.

Whoever will their sublime virtues nurture,

Will surely live even after sad sepulchre.

 

@Shankar D Mishra 07.01.2018

WHOM TO TRUST?

 

Ah! A pathetic and piteous voice, the Class Teacher heard,

While he was teaching Chemistry in the second period!

It was Karun who, like a swishing and swelling flood,

Raised his delirious and uneasy head gradually upward!

 

Then, the Teacher, saying, “What is the matter, my dear?”

Approached the ever innocent and sobbing pupil near!

As soaked and blotted his written papers with his bitter beads of tear,

Said he, “Sir, intense is my Stomach-ache, ouch! I am unable to bear!”

 

Melting like the soft butter by Karun’s stomach-ache drama heat,

Teacher did caress his back and give him a New Guest’s Treat!

Without any home-work, teacher instantly sent Karun home,

But, little did he guess, Karun’s only remedy was Google Chrome!

 

Karun’s disease remained an unnoticed and unsuspected mystery,

Until he disclosed to Varun, while Meeta Mam was teaching History!

The shocking and sickening fact fast circulated far and wide like wild fire,

“Whom to trust?” then murmured to himself, the gaping Chemistry Sir!

 

Glossary:

Swishing – hissing/ whistling

Delirious – restless/convulsive

Google Chrome – here, Video Games

Gaping - looking with wide open mouth, as in wonder

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 02.01.2018

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O GOD! MAY EVERYONE BE AT LEAST A SAGE!

 

O God! You are the only Ultimate Judge:

Who is ever cent percent correct, right and impartial,

Who can never be bribed to deviate or unreasonably budge,

Who is ever cent percent just, and zero percent superficial!

 

O God! You are the only Absolute Power:

That is ever beyond the stain and stigma of perversion,

That is ever much above any touch of blasphemous mire,

That is ever past any influenced or questionable discrimination?

 

O God! You are the only Unblinking and Unbiased Eyes:

That can, every nook and corner of the Universe, visualize!

What is so pious as They; so judicious, conscientious and wise?

Who can, Their greatness and grandeur, ever measure or surmise?

 

O God! May all Your children love and follow in Your Ways!

Yes, none can be You; but, “May everyone be at least a Sage!”

May all remember, “Man lives by deeds, and not by days,

Virtue, and not nice, in the long run, without fail, fully pays!”

 

Glossary:

Budge - move

Blasphemous – profane/ offensive/ improper

Perversion – distortion/following in immoral ways

Surmise - guess/assume

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 01.01.2018

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A NEW YEAR WISH……..

 

O God! May pure Love replace hatred and rancour,

May its powerful grip, the whole World, conquer,

May it unmask its vicious and venomous adulterators,

May it jubilate on the perishing Graves of the Perpetrators!

 

O God! May pearly Peace replace violence rampant,

May it, in the long run, be the only indomitable Triumphant,

May violence be ostracized, and pushed into a deadly isolation,

May it fetch one and all, from all pangs, a lasting Liberation!

 

O God! May nectaric Humanity replace ugly inhumanity in society,

May sweet self-confidence be a substitute for fear, horror and anxiety,

May never hard work, honesty, trust and loyalty be sorely slapped,

May never Justice be badly gagged, or Innocence be sadly trapped!

 

O God! May all the above prevail in the World to bring Heaven down,

May everyone be blessed with sound health, wealth and a Rights’ Crown!

 

N.B: This poem is inspired by a ‘New Year’ message sent to me by Cijo Joseph Chennelil Sir, (on 16.12 2017) one of the best critics on my poems so far. Thank u, sir for your inspiring message.

 

Glossary:

Rancour – bitterness

Conquer – rule

Unmask – make open/public

Vicious - inhuman

Venomous - poisonous

Adulterators –those who make impure by adding inferior materials or elements to pure materials or elements

Jubilate – feel or show great joy over a victory

Perishing – disappearing

Perpetrators – the persons responsible for evil deeds

Rampant – widespread

Indomitable - who cannot be dominated or defeated

Triumphant - successful,

Ostracized – disliked/driven out of the locality

Isolation - loneliness

Gagged – choked

Prevail – succeed/rule

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 25.12.2017

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IF I WERE A TREE ......

 

Were I a sweet black-berry nut tree

Standing restive on the strand of a river;

A sweet repository for many a bird and bee

Smug I would be to flourish my favour!

 

All, except the inanimate, would be my exhilarating guests

Dawns, noons, dusks and nights would be busy

Hospitalising all sans hostility and sans rests

Satiate I would like a Mother selflessly crazy.

 

Fishes beneath me wouldn’t go unrelished

Also, when all would enjoy a never ending feast,

Fanning of the breezes would have embellished

The chirps, humming and fluttering on my cosy breast.

 

But, if not I am, at present in reality so,

Should I not try my utmost to do an ounce

Of my fancy’s part before it does go

Baseless as the modern ministers pronounce?

 

@Shankar D Mishra 24.12.2017

DO IDENTITIES REALLY MATTER?

 

When I was born,

I was for my parents a son,

For my elder brothers and sisters, a younger brother,

For my uncles and aunts, a nephew, a cousin, or any other.

 

 

I was also a grandson for my grandparents.

When I went to school, I was one of the students

Whom my teachers loved, guided and taught.

After my college studies, to be a good teacher I fought.

 

First, I was known as a tutor, then a lecturer. 

For a few and myself hitherto a petty poet in Oriya and English.

When I married, I became a husband to my wife, my picture

Was addressed in many different names then since.

 

When comes down my descendant

A father will be called, by him or her or them, I

When he or she or they marry, a father-in-law, they will chant

For the child of the child, a grandfather, if be under the sky.

 

Albeit, from the cradle to the grave an innumerable names I take,

My extraneous identity often varies, but the Self is not fake.

It takes its forms corresponding to its past, present action,

So, whatever they call me, I must first be a being human.

 

@Shankar D Mishra 23.12.2017

 

N.B: This poem was written in 2003 when I married and was yet to be a father.

IF PRIDE COMES

 

If pride of position comes,

Look at the infinite sky. 

If pride of success comes,

Look at the humble, generous tree. 

If pride of erudition comes, 

Look at the deep, enlightening Vedas. 

If pride of Beauty comes, 

Look at the ever lasting Truth. 

If pride of affluence comes, 

Look at the abundant, magnanimous Lord Kuvera. 

If pride of life comes,

Look at the all devouring Death. 

If pride of vigour comes, 

Look at the decay and decadence. 

If pride of devotion comes, 

Look at the exemplary bhakta Prahallad or Hanuman. 

If pride of friendship comes,

Look at Lord Krishna and Sudama. 

If pride of service comes, 

Look at the angelic, philanthropic Mother Teresa. 

If pride of borbearance comes, 

Look at the Great, tolerant Himalayas. 

If pride of purity comes,

Look at the Holy, Sacred Ganges . 

If pride of kindness comes, 

Look at the ever bounteous Mother Earth. 

If pride of generosity comes, 

Look at the Epic-hero Harischandra. 

If pride of dedication comes,

Look at your ever benevolent Parents. 

Then you will see,

Pride will automatically freeze into footling zero. 

 

 N.B:- Vedas – the Hindu religious books; Lord Kuvera - the Hindu god of wealth; Bhakta Prahallad and Hanuman.– in the Hindu mythology, the devotees of Lord Nrusingha and Lord Sri Ram respectively; Lord Krishna – in the Hindu mythology the incarnation of Lord Vishnu and Sudama,His sincerest devotee; Harischandra- an Indian king known for his extreme generous nature 

 

@Shankar D mishra 20.12.2017

ILLUSION

 

When illusion looms menacingly over the weak mind,

The infirm latter can see neither future nor past hind.

Alas! It gropes in the thick dark of confusion to stumble, 

And falls finally a prey to woefully groan, grumble and rumble.

 

When the gullible mind is engulfed by illusion,

It hankers after a vague, shadowy hallucination.

Relinquishing the path of truth and reality, Pursues It a perplexed course of fatal futility.

 

When the wretched mind is dictated by illusion,

Swayed by Its base and baneful inclination,

Heads It towards a destructive destination,

To end up with remorse, repentance and moan.

 

Thus, O the willful, insane and obdurate human,

Shun It soon to attain sweet, salvaged salvation.

        

@Shankar D Mishra 20.12.2017

WHAT IS THIS? O LOVE, TELL ME!

 

Madness maddens me,

When, in a realm of fantasy, I dream of you!

Sadness saddens me,

When a gulf of separation is between me and you!

Gladness gladdens me,

When I find myself in the blithe company of you!

Restlessness entraps me,

When misunderstanding creeps in between me and you!

 

Is it a sublime soul’s reasonable rhyme,

 An uncontrollable mind's lusty carnal crime,

A crazy caprice’s audible pantomime,

A hallucinative whim’s temporary grime,

A raw reverie’s youthful slime

Or, it is only the ultimate behest of Time?

 

@Shankar D Mishra 17.12.2017

DESTINY AND DESTINATION

 

What is unforeseen, not preplanned and unavoidable,

What is beyond the control of human any,

What had been, what is and what will be inevitable,

Is pretty commonly considered “Destiny’!

 

What can be fancied, planned and controlled at will before,

What is called a predetermined Journey, to reach a desired station,

What is associated with the outcome bearing upon the endeavour,

Is a universally deemed perception as “Destination”!

 

To me, interrelated are the Destiny and Destination,

Part and parcel are the Destiny and Destination,

Inseparable are the Destiny and Destination,

Visibly invisible are the “Destiny and Destination”!

 

Let’s have a deep, subtle and Supra-mudane deliberation,

So that we can deduce an apter and more reasonable conclusion!

 

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 13.12.2017

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SOME TIPS TO BE AN IDEAL TEACHER

 

Yeah, education is an illuminating garden of enlightenment

Where grow the student saplings into full-fledged human tress

Being nourished, cherished and guided by the teacher gardeners ardent

Who instill knowledge sustenance, basic human values into them breeze.

 

A true teacher is he who like an efficient physician

Detects the grasping, assimilating periphery of the pupils

Renouncing his/her ego climbs down to their levels of perception

Like the bounteous Nature dispels doubts, requirements fulfills.

 

A teacher’s solemn duty is to energize, invigorate and elevate

The students to the apex by sharing his hard hoarded acquisition,

Transform an average student to one resplendently bright

And a bright learner to a brilliant one by selfless inculcation.

 

Mustering mastery over own subject, maintaining self discipline

A teacher can surely be ideal, unique and indubitably divine.

 

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LET’S BE SAFEGUARDED BY THE DETACHED AND DESIRELESS NETS!

 

Oh! The lusty Mosquitoes of nasty desires ever rush around,

Like the uncalled-for, intrusive, invasive and irksome gusts,

To pierce their sharp, blood-hungry tongues, annoy and confound,

Until their victims are stealthily sucked by them, the loathsome pests!

 

Yes, they do not have any Sense of Person, Time and Place,

Except for a carnivorous greed for their quarries’ blood and flesh!

Their nature is to be ever accompanied by a rigid, frenzied mess,

Alas! They always leave their preys with an irreparable redress!

 

For a hale and hearty life, they must, at all costs, be kept at bay,

As, while the favourable Sun shines, we make effortlessly useful hay,

Else, we will have to bleed and suffer much, and too heavily pay,

Until and unless we take safe preventives, we block the Recovery Ray!

 

Let’s, thus, always be safeguarded by the detached and desireless Nets

Or, we can’t fight against the Mosquitoes to enter the sweet Salvation’s Gates!

 

 

Glossary:

Lusty – strong

Uncalled-for – unwelcome

Intrusive – disturbing

Invasive - entering by force

Irksome - annoying

Confound – puzzle/bewilder

Stealthily – quietly/ silently

Loathsome - hateful

Carnivorous – living upon blood and flesh

Quarries – food/victims

Accompanied by - in the company of

Frenzied mess - mad confusion

Preys - victims

Redress – compensation for a wrong or grievance

Hale and hearty - healthy

 

©Shankar D Mishra, 02.12.2017

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ONLY IF I COULD AFFORD A VIDEO TICKET THEN…….!

 

It was the time of the cassettes and the videos

For the curious eyes’ entertainment;

And listening to the programmes of the radios

For the eager ears’ amusement!

 

Once, in my childhood, some of my village youths hired a Video Set

So as to provide pleasure to the country folks, and some money to get.

They sold each ticket for a ‘Show’ only a ‘Rupee’ then,

Soon thronged the Video Hall the elated kids, adults and grown up men!

 

I ran to my widowed Mother with an expectant wish and an anxious look

Said to her, “Bou, Can you pay me a Rupee to buy for a ‘Show’ a ticket?”

“They are running a movie called Andha Kanoon,

To enjoy myself with others may I have a boon?”

 

My penniless Mom replied, “No dear, now we cannot afford!

Please, don’t mind, you shall view it when you grow old!

I have to manage a week’s grocery with it,

Else, cannot move an inch our family’s feet!”

 

I returned silently with a heart withered and heavy,

Still, I controlled myself, and compromised with my wretched Fate!

Told myself, “Only if our circumstances could afford a Video Ticket,

I would able to view happily the “Andha Kanoon Movie….!

 

N.B: The Hindi movie “Andha Kanoon”, which literally means “The Blind Justice” , was released in 1983, when I was only 10 years old.

 

Glossary: Bou - Maa/Mother in my mother tongue

 

©Shankar D Mishra 26.11.2017

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LET ME ABSORB AND DRY ALL THE SOUREST AND BITTEREST TEARS!

 

Ouch! Every drop of costliest tearing tear if ever one does shed,

Never does it go, my sensible friend, unpaid;

For, those sorts of forced, suppressed and hapless tears are red,

Thus, they are never uselessly and in vain bled!

 

Hark! Nothing ever escapes God’s unblinking and unbiased Eyes!

The guilty and the innocent, the foolish and the wise,

Are ever aptly sent their respective either hellish or heavenly prize

In proportion to their vicious or virtuous actions’ size!

 

O God! Let me never be an unwanted cause for anyone’s tears

Let none have for me trepidations or spine shivering fears

Let me seek, at the cost of happiness, what every malady cures

Let me embrace gladly what my entry for Heaven ensures!

 

O God! Thus, let me absorb and dry all the sourest and bitterest tears!

In return for Salvation, I can lick all unjust charges and digest all complaints!

 

Glossary:

Malady – trouble/disease

Trepidations – fears/anxietries

 

©Shankar D Mishra 13.11.2017

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SATARE, TORA…….

 

Satare, tora sabujataa

Mo mane bhari die satejataa;

Tora chapalataa

Mo praane bhari die prafullataa…….

 

Satare, tora komalataa

Mo mane bhari die byaakulataa;

Tora aantarikataa

Mo jeebane nei aase arthabodhataa…..

 

Satare, mu to sapana ra taru

Tu mo sapana ra lataa

Mu to hrudaya ra Rama

Tu mo hrudaya ra Sita…….

 

Satare, tora aatmeeyataa

Mo paain sate biralataa

Tora saralataa

Mo mana bagichaa ra sheetalataa……

 

Satare, to saathe mo milana

Mo paain ta eka melana

Pratikhya ra purnachheda

Kebe heba, sate, purana????

 

N.B: My dear non-Odia friends, due to lack of time, I am unable to translate the above love poem into English, but I will surely post its translated version very soon. Thank u in advance for bearing with me.

 

©Shankar D Mishra 20.07.2017

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