Friday, 30 December 2022

A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS

 A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS

WHY?   WHY?  WHY?

 Why so much craze

          For false, fleeting praise?

Oh! The glaze of the days

At nights never stays!

 

What is there in the flesh?

How frenetic to embrace!

A lovely hellish place

That swindles by dress.

 

Why dost thou crave

In the bank pelf save?

Wilt catch away the Knave

While thou art in grave.

 

Why a queue for power,

Strife, for muggy mire?

Being obscene, blunt and bare

Wilt thou descend from the stair.

 

Why thou dost nurture ire

Indulge in haze, mirage and care?

Yea’ nobody will share

What thou sowest in the layer.

 

Why is then temptation

Enmeshed by delusion?

Freedom from illusion

Wilt bring thee blithe salvation.

 

[This poem is taken from the poet’s Anthology “A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.MIRAGE HUNT

The irresistible thirst of carnal hunt

Ever ignites the savage hunter to prey

And quench his obsession blunt;

The more he runs the more does he bray

As the hunt itself moves away to taunt

Befool and teach the poor pursuer to sway

In the hallucinative heaven of shadow to daunt,

And inhabit the realm, real and blissful, not far away!

 

3. MUMBAI

                             Mumbai:-the economic cynosure of the country

                             Feeds crores of stomachs of Its thickly thronged plateau

And those of countless adjacent to the remotest places,

                             Draws concourse every fraction of a moment towards It!

“No less than a rotten carcass to the greedy, gluttonous

Beasts, flies , ants and insects and those who relish and live on it,”

Who like those non humans howl, growl, screech, buzz, yell and yelp

Over grabbing a sound share by whatever pranks they can apply.

 

The local train commuters here are of two types-

The first ones are hot, suffocated vadas of the so-called Mumbai Pav

And the second are the haughty, doughty and naughty kangaroo youngs,

No sooner does the day dawn than It starts blaring like a tempest

Spewing like a volcano and besmearing the air like a T.B. patient,

Still none quits it! Sometimes It chuckles for a cosmopolitan haven,

But often sighs for being misused for its naivety and munificence

And beseeches to God to pay a favourable heed to Its helplessness.

 

`       4.

 

 

DON’T  ASK

 

 

Don’t ask the scintillating Moon 

How much love It has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much light It borrows for you.

 

Don’t ask the refulgent Sun

How much love It has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much light and warmth It pours you.

 

 

Don’t ask a mass of firm stone

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How strong a peg it offers to support you.

 

 

Don’t ask a little, petite lamp

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How long it burns to dispel darkness for you.

 

Don’t ask a benevolent book

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much wit it gifts to remove gloom from you.

 

Don’t ask life rendering water

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much it quenches thirst of you.

 

Don’t ask a spontaneous shower

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much greenery it breeds for you.

 

Don’t ask a versatile tree

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How many bounteous boons it offers you.

 

Don’t ask a tender blossom

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much nectar it carries for you.

 

Don’t ask a altruistic mate

How much love it has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How often he stakes himself to save you.

 

 

Don’t ask an illuminating Teacher

How much love he has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How much he instills to make you one among the few.

 

Don’t ask your incomparable Mother

How much love She has for you;

Have patience and watch,

How often can She die to immortalize you.

 

Don’t ask yourself you

How much love you have for you;

Have patience and watch,

How fair a path you tread to liberate you.

 

Don’t ask anyone/thing hence

How much loved you always are,

For, love lies not in expression

But, in realization, you will, at length, concur.

 

@Shankar D Mishra 16.12.2016

 

 

 

5.

 

SKIN

 

 

                             Is this same obtrusive skin

That did once glossily 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, solacing 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?

 

 

©Shankar D Mishra    10.02.2017

 

6.

 

 

WHAT IS USE THEN?

O’God! The omnipotent- present-scient

When Thou art within

It is recognised as a descent useful soul

And the moment thou art evanescent

It is no longer considered a soul human;

Only a stuff useless, pale and abominable

Foul odour instead of rational scent comes

Perishes all glaze, glamour and glorious entity

Away leaving a mere carcass!

 

But alas! Mind itself does hardly reconcile

In spite of millions of instances

Indolent to divine bliss, to irrational revel suscepective

Advertently plays rather the vile

Slackens at length liberation chances

What is then use of being wise, trim and speculative?

 

7. CONQUEST OVER DEFEAT

Can a scared canoe surpass high tides

A daunted dog prey if it hides?

A fierce fighter fizzle out in the fight

A persevevant be divested out of day light?

 

When perspiring a thousand times down falls

                             A tiny heavy ant to ascend upon the precipitous walls,

                             Yet 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 wax his verves his fleet, fragile failures

                             Invite the fathomless water to quest 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 feet

And the steady persevevant compel defeat bow at their feet.”

 

          8.

 

BEAUTY’S GLORIFICATION

 

 

Why wilt thou flinch

To glorify what is Beautiful,

As it belongs to thee not?

Phew! It is the way of the ignoble.

 

Thou needst not search a shrine

To plaudit God by trudging there;

If thou canst keep unenvious eyes open

To see real Beauty and proclaim, He is near.

 

Don’t mistake It for any personal acquisition:

It is the lotus petal-His bounteous phenomenon,

It is special, unadulterated, undying only its own

Belong to none-albeit a source of inspiration like the Sun.

 

Let’s then relinquish, renounce rancorous discrimination

And chant Beauty’s Glorification to fetch emancipation.

 

 

 

©Shankar D Mishra   11 .03.2017

Email id: shankardmishrapoet@mail.com

 

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A CHILDREN DAY’S GIFT

                             O’ the curled buds of the imminent future

                             Get ready to come out of the gravid stems

                             Await the nourishing rays of the knowledge sun

                             And become soon as the earth tree’s dazzling diadems.

 

Don’t get either deterred or dispirited

Owing to the trying trials of the adverse climate,

They are the necessary encumbrances for your weal

To help you swing like pendant apples early or late.

 

But anticipate not to be sweet, delicious

Absorbing sine heat, rain, cold-the natural need

All those, you will behold then, who hang gleefully now

Passed through the passages to your akin indeed.

 

Accredit you or not, this is only the success secret

All those abide by this become at any cost great.

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

         

MELANCHOLY OF PECCABLE SOUL

          In the mental jungle of mine

Sometimes snatches Satan the bridle of reason

          Forcibly sways over it the malign

Dictates me to head toward the province of sin!

 

Entering the fake coveted province

When, feel nowhere the spurious gleam

Begin cursing, in vein, for inclination vice

But to no use, for never looks back a marching stream…

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

                            

                                      A   MYSTRY

Why is so alert and agile before

Becomes trunk-steady dormant and dull?

All his vigour, vivacity and vitality

Gallop away from the sight soon after the last breath

All hard earned hoardings and belongings become unknown to him:

Dissolve as fumes in the space

Thunderous sobbing and vociferous cries unheard

Bloods become white and unfamiliar!

 

But neither he nor any other knows the mystery

Whence does he come and whither does he go?

Leaving behind, only a hollow mark of reminiscence

To love-loathe, smile-sob, deplore and deride!

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

12.

 

AN ARDENT NOON

 

The relentless eruptions of the monstrous volcanoes

Deafen Her ears; stupefy their beings,

Blast Her breast; squeeze their lives,

Dent Her brow; embitter their bloods,

Pit Her head; stifle their breath,

Shatter Her shape; batter their bellies,

Disrupt Her slumber; destroy their masses,

Lacerate Her solace; maze their ways

Dilapidate Her pace; detonate their senses

Mutilate Her organs; torment their nerves

Vociferates She now; scream and scamper the rest

All are huddled in an imminent end

Only a few more blinks to do spend!

 

 

 N.B: Here, ardent noon symbolizes the violent intensity caused by inhumans by irrational activities. Her stands for Mother Earth and their stands for the innocent people’s.

 

©Shankar D Mishra   08.02.2017

 

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

13. AN ENIGMATIC SOURCE

With the perishment of corporal figure:

The heart stabilizer becomes auto cut!

The supplier of power becomes itself passive!

The streams of smile become dried up!

The tempest of passion becomes stagnant!

The flows of movement become still!

The automatic phone becomes dead!

The telescopic vision becomes obscure!

The computerised memory is deleted forever!

The cordless speaker becomes dumb and deaf!

The fruits of achievement hang sans stem!

The enjoyer of everything jumps into nothing!

The controller of the cosmos becomes now a corpse!

And all about him is an enigmatic source!

 

 14.

 

IF THERE WERE NO TREES

 

If there were no trees

Where could blow gentle breeze?

Where could we get cool rains?

How could grow sweet grains?

How could we get freezing shades

Relieve from the fiery Sun our heads?

How could save we floods and droughts?

Yes, grass to sprout could display doubts…

 

What would happen to our life then?

All would scamper out of pain,

Hi-tech science would doze in vain

Could not survive a single chain

Nothing but Silence over here reign!

Whom would the Earth lavishly entertain?

To enjoy all and praise His creation

So, let’s be all to them kind and humane.

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

15.

 

On the 8th anniversary of Mumbai Terror attack, 26/11/2008

 

A TEAR FAIR

 

Pools of tears

Streams of tears

Lakes of tears

Seas of tears

Oceans of tears

And showers of tears

Gushing down from the C.S.T station

Springing down from the Hotel Oberoi

Flushing down from the Taj Heritage

Trickling down from the Nariman House

Collecting from the other tributaries and confluencing

Flow’d on the beds of Mumbai

Ceaselessly relentlessly and helplessly…

Stalling a tear fair for three days

Proving again ‘The barbaric cowards rush in

Where the civilised heroes fear to tread…’

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

16.

 

THE ULTIMATE GOAL

 

 

Came as thou must thou go

Be as joyful as thou didst vow.

The world is naught but a show

Some part higher, some role low.

 

All they came did never stay

Early or late, did pass away.

Hence, never thou interrogate, “thou why”?

That will result in only an enigmatic “phi”.

 

So, prefer to exist as gladly as to enter

For, the new always replace the older.

Be in the strife a praise-worthy soldier

Choose thy diet only the Divine prayer.

 

Then, leave thy fear and reluctance

To end thy pre-assigned role,

To meet with the Providence

Ought to be thy Ultimate Goal.

 

 

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

 

©Shankar D Mishra    06.02.2017

 

 

 

17.

 

 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  24.12.2016

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

18. THAT’S WHY THOU ART CALLED GURU

O’ the Great and Unique Redeemer of the Universe!

Nothing in the prodigious contrivance of the Theo

Is so heavy as Thou art which thy very ‘Label’ infers.

 

O’ the sole Dispeller of the whole darkness of ignorance!

Thou art made up of unusual ingredients and stuffs

To revive the dormant, spread peace and knowledge enhance.

 

O’ the Remover of the perturbed public pains!

No mundane can be as panacean as Thine

To eliminate desire and render relief from the rigid chains.

 

O’ the Divine Delegate to the transitory earth!

Neither I eulogise nor do Flatter, Thanks Krishna!

To prompt me to pen what’s only the sooth.

 

O’ the Torch Bearer of my long loose life!

I beg nothing but Thy grace to vanquish this interminable strife.

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

19.

 

 

HOW MUCH YOU AGREE ?

 

Blindness is a blessing

Where eyesight fails to perceive property;

It’s better to be mute

Where tongue poisons hearts utterly.

 

A curse is the birth

That kills other’s mirth;

Ignoble is the life

That stabs souls like a knife.

 

A hell is the shade

That scorches limbs and head;

Futile is the fence

That filches crops men’s.

 

Vice is the power

That injustice does shower;

Garbage is the knowledge

That lacks virtue, nobility and glaze.

 

Useless is the cultivation

That yields rigorous ruination;

Despicable is the elevation

That blocks the path of salvation.

 

[This National Award winning poem, published in “Samvedana” Mangalore, Karnatak, 2006, is taken from ‘A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS’]

 

         

 20. IF IT WERE ONLY A DISPASSIONATE URGE! 

 

Of course, not a mere few

Drooped to devotion pan chew

Only to spit and make lips crimson hue

Pay what meant not for perpetual dew!

 

Most those who converge

Float, yet don’t submerge

Feign to rinse, fail to purge

Sins accumulated by sense’s buzz

To evade “cycles” in vain dodge

Can’t book an Elysian lodge:

For, fear, apprehension and anxiety charge,

But, if it were only a dispassionate urge…

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

21. LOVE’S TRIUMPH

Why art thou mute

Even they do dispute?

Being themselves a brute

Assert to be Lord’s flute!

 

A public property thou art

Coerced to play lust’s part!

On thy face they dost smart

Gambol they, groans thy heart!

 

Yes, injustice is to ravish Love’s right

Smack Him through affront’s plight,

Exploit His humility’s height

Crucify Him and drag dead delight!

 

 

Yet, ephemeral is their miry merriment

Triumph wilt thou in the last Judgment.

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

                   22.

 

 MY MOTHER

 

My mother always bothers

Very unlike others;

Makes offspring better

Nothing on globe greater.

 

She serves unto Her demise

Uneducated but wise.

A full-moon in guise

Unpayable her prize.

 

Very familiar with stormy percussion

Still bounty in Her pure affection.

Passive resistance, Her unique cream.

Happiness to Her is a dried up stream.

 

Me like an ingrate son

Earth witnessed never born.

She is a Rose, myself a thorn

I am the chaff, she is corn.

 

Ah! Stars smile in Her august presence

The Sun departs in her gloomy absence.

Compassion looks through Her chaste glance

To have Her indeed is a Heavenly chance!

 

@Shankar D Mishra 17.12.2016

 

                                      23. the rest!

Do they attain lasting rest

Being bigwigs’ hired guest

Stripping off their noxious chests

Tantalizing others by covetous pests?

 

Don’t they forget their prime goal

Toying with physique, stifling the Soul?

Were they sent here only to dole

Digging within many a hole?

 

Aren’t they sowing baneful seeds

Indulging ever in despicable deeds

Adulterating in themselves universal creeds

Giving birth only to promiscuous breeds?

 

How to curb this vexatious and nocuous pollution?

What is then its sure solution?

The only measure is to restrain passion

Waging motion against nude fashion.

 

{Based on an English Daily’s publication, Mumbai, this poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

 

24. THE Plight of Two Hapless Parrots

 

O’ God Thou alone knowest!

What do those heartless men procure

Confining the innocent, harmless, free parrots

Within an obnoxious, torturous, iron hell

Making them plumeless, servile, and stagnant

Fettering them illegally, arbitrarily and irrationally

Divesting them forcibly from the tax free enjoyment

Of the bounteous Charms of evergreen Mother?

 

But alas! Nobody pays a pitiful attention

To the perdue pathos of the imprisoned couple

Those pass through sans any crime, calumny and culpability!

The captives skirl, scream and shriek anon, anon

Shed silent tears countless days and nights

For, they are mute having no power to plead

Very like the repugnant human beings in the court,

To bribe the voracious, gluttonous and discriminate judges;

No black money horde, political hands

To buy verdicts of the callous, owlish jury

To snatch unjust freedom away!

The only alternative is to curse and reconcile to their hapless lots!

 

{This poem is taken from the poet’s 1st poetry Anthology, A CYNOSURE OF ENGLISH POEMS}

 

25.

 

What Would Happen?

 

If mind could think all the things

If scruple could judge all the things

If eyes could see all the things

If teeth could chew all the things

If tongue could speak all the things

If hand could touch all the things

If mouth could eat all the things

If mirror could manifest all the things

If stomach could digest all the things

If pen could express all the things

If thirst could quench all the drinks

If man could get all he thinks!

 

 

 

N.B. ‘If thirst could quench all the drinks.’ – This sentence is in the form of inversion. The correct order of this sentence is:If all the drinks could quench thirst.

 

@Shankar D Mishra   10.01.2017

 

 

 

 

26.

SOME  LIVE................

 

 

Some live a life of the dead

As energetic as a silhouette’s shade

A river without water

A book without a letter......

 

Some live until they breathe their last

Until they are mingled in the dust

Until their life's dusk

Until they turn into a hollow husk......

 

But some live even long after their demise

For the entire humanity, remain a ‘priceless prize’

Transcend the boundary of Immortality

And become synonyms for the Eternity.........

 

Would that I could live like the last

Could breathe even after breathing my last……!

 

To snatch unjust freedom away!

The only alternative is to curse and reconcile to their hapless lots!

25. What Would Happen?

 

If mind could think all the things

If scruple could judge all the things

If eyes could see all the things

If teeth could chew all the things

If tongue could speak all the things

If hand could touch all the things

If mouth could eat all the things

If mirror could manifest all the things

If stomach could digest all the things

If pen could express all the things

If thirst could quench all the drinks

If man could get all he thinks!

 

26. SOME LIVE................

 

Some live a life of the dead

As energetic as a silhouette’s shade

A river without water

A book without letter......

 

Some live till they breathe their last

Till they are mingled in the dust

Till their life's dusk

Till they turn into a hollow husk......

 

But some live even long after their demise

For the entire humanity remain a ‘priceless prize’

Transcend the boundary of Immortality

And become synonyms for the Eternity.........

27. HARK NOW  !!!

Hark:   Now the look is aphrodisiac

The mind is frantic

The desire is maniac

The action is fantastic !

Hark:   Now the physique is for lasciviousness

The examination is for certificate

The wedlock is for confinement

Everything is for frivolousness!

Hark:   Now study is for service

Duty is for avarice

Marriage is for slice

Life is for vice!

 

N.B: As energetic as a silhouette’s shade

A river without water

A book without a letter......

 

The above sentences are ironical statements as a silhouette [shadow], a waterless river and a letterless book are never energetic as they are lifeless or meaningless objects.

Hark:   Now smile is for motive

Reverence is for objective

Affection is for selective

Love is for lucrative!

Hark:   Now worship is for boon

Temple is for idle conversation

City is for prostitution

Modern is for false fashion!

Hark:   Now the press is for business

The T.V. is for laziness

The picture is for sensuousness

The world is for heaviness!

28. A PRAYER FOR MY MOTHER

O’ God! Never dost thou sever Her

Despite being Her life many a slice

She does continue to serve and sacrifice

Garbs every scar underneath Her tortured soul

Possessing lavish care and exceeding miracle!

She who is an eternal abode of peace

Ejaculates Her unreluctant compassion

With neither fear nor discrimination

Unbearable is a moment Her to miss

Of course, an unusual idol She is

Unperturbed, may you irritate or tease

Unaffordable Her selfless dedication is

O’ God! Never dost sever Her from us please

She is the only source to our grief appease!

  29. WHAT AN INSULATOR Thou Wert?

Ah! For long, I had been looking forward

For thy pulse to pulsate

Thy nerve to vibrate

Thy heart to throb

Thy verve to verb

Thy lips to quiver

Thy feet to stagger

 

©Shankar D Mishra    30.01.2017

 

SOME  LIVE................

 

 

Some live a life of the dead

As energetic as a silhouette’s shade

A river without water

A book without a letter......

 

Some live until they breathe their last

Until they are mingled in the dust

Until their life's dusk

Until they turn into a hollow husk......

 

But some live even long after their demise

For the entire humanity, remain a ‘priceless prize’

Transcend the boundary of Immortality

And become synonyms for the Eternity.........

 

Would that I could live like the last

Could breathe even after breathing my last……!

 

To snatch unjust freedom away!

The only alternative is to curse and reconcile to their hapless lots!

25. What Would Happen?

 

If mind could think all the things

If scruple could judge all the things

If eyes could see all the things

If teeth could chew all the things

If tongue could speak all the things

If hand could touch all the things

If mouth could eat all the things

If mirror could manifest all the things

If stomach could digest all the things

If pen could express all the things

If thirst could quench all the drinks

If man could get all he thinks!

 

26. SOME LIVE................

 

Some live a life of the dead

As energetic as a silhouette’s shade

A river without water

A book without letter......

 

Some live till they breathe their last

Till they are mingled in the dust

Till their life's dusk

Till they turn into a hollow husk......

 

But some live even long after their demise

For the entire humanity remain a ‘priceless prize’

Transcend the boundary of Immortality

And become synonyms for the Eternity.........

27. HARK NOW  !!!

Hark:   Now the look is aphrodisiac

The mind is frantic

The desire is maniac

The action is fantastic !

Hark:   Now the physique is for lasciviousness

The examination is for certificate

The wedlock is for confinement

Everything is for frivolousness!

Hark:   Now study is for service

Duty is for avarice

Marriage is for slice

Life is for vice!

 

N.B: As energetic as a silhouette’s shade

A river without water

A book without a letter......

 

The above sentences are ironical statements as a silhouette [shadow], a waterless river and a letterless book are never energetic as they are lifeless or meaningless objects.

Hark:   Now smile is for motive

Reverence is for objective

Affection is for selective

Love is for lucrative!

Hark:   Now worship is for boon

Temple is for idle conversation

City is for prostitution

Modern is for false fashion!

Hark:   Now the press is for business

The T.V. is for laziness

The picture is for sensuousness

The world is for heaviness!

28. A PRAYER FOR MY MOTHER

O’ God! Never dost thou sever Her

Despite being Her life many a slice

She does continue to serve and sacrifice

Garbs every scar underneath Her tortured soul

Possessing lavish care and exceeding miracle!

She who is an eternal abode of peace

Ejaculates Her unreluctant compassion

With neither fear nor discrimination

Unbearable is a moment Her to miss

Of course, an unusual idol She is

Unperturbed, may you irritate or tease

Unaffordable Her selfless dedication is

O’ God! Never dost sever Her from us please

She is the only source to our grief appease!

  29. WHAT AN INSULATOR Thou Wert?

Ah! For long, I had been looking forward

For thy pulse to pulsate

Thy nerve to vibrate

Thy heart to throb

Thy verve to verb

Thy lips to quiver

Thy feet to stagger

 

©Shankar D Mishra    30.01.2017

 

 

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