Contemporary Literary Review India | eISSN 2394-6075 | Vol 4, No 3: CLRI August 2017

Poems by Sandeep Kumar Mishra

Sleep-On Sale


 

Every night I wander around bed- town

To buy some tranquil delights homegrown;

Dark ghostly mysteries of human life

Persuade me to escape from the day of struggle and strife.

I am eager to go that land of forgetfulness, of that unknown territory,

I track but can’t find a way to make me weary.

When unfulfilled desires hover frequently,

My fancy wide awake weaves his web brilliantly.

Sleep is a dream girl, a musk rose fragrance,

Melodies of a cookoo, the serenity of romance,

These beauties in bounty I always cherish,

But every nocturnal errand will be quite garish,

Because sleeplessness is my love interest,

Day sympathies me but nights torment.

I am impelled to sell my reluctant sleep,

If anyone is willing to buy and ready to weep.

 

Bring Me More Pain

I want to lift the raven pal of my doomed future

To see if there is some silver line in the dark,

No, wait! I have changed my mind

As it might show me

The coming disaster,

I might not be able to face,

I have reconciled with my

Shattered dreams,

Broken heart,

Lonely nights,

Sullen days,

Weary body

And tortured soul,

I feel the prick of pain

In the corner of my heart

When life does not torture me.

 

Beauty: bliss

Beauty is but bliss, an ecstasy

When life unveils her holy face;

A soft whisperings, speaks in our spirit,

The eternity gazing itself in a mirror,

It glows with pure tints of varying hue;

It shall rise with the dawn from the east,

A lock of angels forever in flight;

Exulting beauty descends from centered

And from errant sphere;

Balmy nectar glows,

Its magic spell enchants the heart.

Come! See the breezy dome of groves,

At its fountain quench the thirst

Of magic thrall.

When I Breathe Last

When I breathe last,

Don’t weep at my grave or inscribe a stone

For I won’t be there;

Death is slave to the luck,

Nothing it could do;

I will change my form,

My ashes will be one with the crust of the earth,

I would revolve with its diurnal path

And be live again for forever,

Eternal I become.

For me, life would mean all that more than

If ever meant whatever,

You can afford to forget me now.

Death: A New Life

Death doesn’t have feet or form,

You can’t trace his footprint;

See its image in the mirror of vitality,

Its spirit lives in the body of life.

Death is inside the flesh,

Mount on the funeral pyre;

Feel the body fabric burning;

You are not descending into the Earth

But rising towards the Sky,

And entering into a new home,

Remember! When the Sun sets, the Moon rises.


Sandeep Kumar Mishra is an artist, writer and lecturer since 1995. He has published poems, articles, stories and 3 books: 1. Pearls (poetry anthology), 2. How to be (professional development), 3. Feel my heart (art and poetry).

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