Poetry of Dr. Shankar D Mishra

Wednesday, 8 December 2021

MISUNDERSTANDING

Misunderstanding! Oh! A fraction of its atom

Turns a beautiful bowl of blissful benison

Into a fathomless, loathful ocean of venom,

Contributing to a strained bruised relation.

Phew! Misunderstanding is a foul stinky odour

That turns with its abominably accursed vicinity

A pearly thought garden of serenity and splendor

Into a dingy dump yard of filth, stench and impurity.

Misunderstanding is a pernicious expired drug

That aggravates, instead of remedying an unquiet patient,

Leads its gullible victims to apathetic shrug

Digging a deep ditch in relations so sweet and decent.

Let’s all take a staunch oath neither to give it birth

Nor to strangle and kill our costly treasured Mirth.

Copy Right: Shankar D Mishra 15.12.2016

LET’S

Let’s leave

What leaves us to live.

Let’s live

What leaves us not to grieve.

Let’s see

Wha helps us to cross life’s Sea;

Let’s be a swarm of diligent bees

To spray sweetness, and joy breeze.

Let’s help to help us.

Let’s play a fair-play paying no heed to the toss.

Let’s bless and never curse

To fill at length, our own Virtue Purse.

Let’s all grittily practise what we often preach.

Lo! Heaven won’t be too far for us to reach.

@Shankar D Mishra 18.12.2016

[N.B: Dear friends, in the first stanza, the 1st use of ‘pun’ tells that we should avoid those things which allow us o live comfortably. Then, the 2nd ‘pun’ tells us to live in such a manner that our same manner will help us not to feel sad for our own wrong doings in the past. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th stanzas are understandable. Pliz read and enjoy. Thank you all.]

LISTEN, TOM

When all call you a fool,

Lose not your cool;

Practise sincerely your victory song,

To prove them all wrong.

When all call you a coward,

Don’t give vent to your ire;

Ignite your “Self”, muster hidden power,

To receive the most coveted Award.

When all call you blind,

Be not to anyone harsh or unkind;

Do hone your skill, sharpen your mind,

Unfold before them what none ever did find.

When all call you a culprit,

Grieve not a little bit;

Stick to your fair-play

To be garlanded in the life’s fray.

When all call you a dumb,

Answer none back, Tom;

Keep multiplying your self-aplomb,

To hear your success bugle drum.

When call all you whatever,

Deal them with positive fervour;

Swerve not from your track of honest labour,

To be adorned and adored, at length, my dear.

N.B: This poem is inspired by the poem “IF’ written by Rudyard Kipling.

@Shankar D Mishra 25.12.2016

THE CONCEPT OF A NEW YEAR

What do you mean by a New Year?

It's only one of the steps of Time that lie bare for all of us to share;

It approaches punctually to be trodden with love, sincerity and care,

It preaches us to preserve prowess, and forgo lethargy, fatigue and fear.

What do you mean by a New Year?

It's only one of the uncountable hairs on a hard dark skull;

It comes spontaneously to flourish like the compatriots other,

And quietly return to the final Abode as the former unnoticed fall.

What do you mean by a New Year?

It's only one of the sea's ceaseless, swelling surges;

It's resolved and determinate, against all odds, to reach the shore,

Before receding, with the Absolute it obediently mingles and merges.

What do you mean by a New Year?

It's only one of the leaves of the Book of the ever rolling and unspoilt Time;

That is, since time immemorial, open before all eyes to read and remember,

"Vice is venomous and perishable, but vital is Virtue in Veracity’s permanent regime.

What do you mean by a new year?

It's only the amongst innumerable stars a Sun;

That restlessly and selflessly teaches us ever "Scorch sins to light your Souls, my dear,

Or else, your bleak world of gloom and guilt will bring forth your instant ruination.

What do you mean by a new year?

It's nothing other than a concept of the mind;

It transcends the horizons of the Old and New, hence, do solemnly swear:

"I'll, like Ben Adhem, love fellow men, live for the world and save the mankind."

31.12.2022

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