The Poet .. A tribute to World Poetry Day

If you would read this with amuse,

I will stop my writing.

If it gives you pain from your wounds,

I will remove myself from your grace.

If it makes you pensive and you feel like crying,

I will weep for my grave error.

If it is depressing for your positive thoughts of life,

I will tear my poetry pages.

If it negates your emotions for World Poetry Day,

I will cease to be a budding poet.

... Manoj Krishna Sanyal

Last rituals

Wails of relatives and friends
with rituals,
somber mood,
moist eyes,
.. A cemetery.

A cycle,
Life and Death,
all to face,
become philosophical,
deeds and misdeeds,
joys and sorrows,
love and enmity…

Meaning changes,
self analysis,
new beginning,
new motto…

Come back home,
become normal self,
broken promises,
philosophy forgotten…

Continue as before,
making life
a cemetery…
.. Cycle continues.

Wish to be a poet

Don’t laugh!
I am also writing poems.
Whether people read or not
My poems are in my ‘Blog’ and ‘Ryze’ pages.

Neither have I understood poetry
Nor, I can express with imagery and metaphors
Vocabulary problems are there due to memory loss
Still I am trying my best.

What to do?
Writing poems in easy language
With day to day talks and feels
And I am managing the show somehow.

Expression with clarity is my motto
May be one day people would read
Eventually may touch a chord in them
I am continuing with that vision and hope.

Why to worry?
Dark times would vanish one day
Be it in poetry, or, in progress
Sunny rays would drench someday.

Beauty of life … a musical symphony

Colorful LIFE I am, echoed in all minds like chimes

I am serenity and peace, change soul into brightness

as symbol of eternal love and tunes of joyous rhymes

with smiles and laughter along with music and happiness.

Scorching sun, cloudy sky or nasty and torrent rain

I am always there with you as beautiful spring

Saddened mind in love epidemic or in pain

joyous song and dance, always I bring.

Oh’ my darling dear, remove you sorrow and tear

come to my lovely retreat and your woes would vanish

till I am there, you have no worry and any fear

my fragrance with lively presence, you would cherish.

Multi colored rainbow I am with beauty and splendor

Listen to my call and make your mind a musical song

I am Inner deity of all soul with warmth and incensed odor

Enjoy life with fun and live long.

Avoid jealousy, hatred and all vices from your mind immune

break the shackles of your mind’s agony

and dance with my musical flute and its magic tune.

Make life colorful and fly free like bird and kite shiny.

Come out of this mad house of sorrows

Let this earth reverberate with melodious trance

all smiles with joy, you borrow

LIFE I am, a joy bringer with music and dance.

... Manoj Krishna Sanyal

Sound of silence

Colorful rainbow I am,

dazzling in mystic canvas

as symbol of eternal unison

and not a blurred illusion.

People see me in different colors and

when all the colors of VIBGYOR are combined,

I again become white

and submerging all the colors within myself

I become happiness and love

changing tumbled mind with tinged sensation.

I am white, the sound of silencemes

merizing everyone as mystic peace

rhythmical ambiance, incensed serenity and

sound of majestic eternity with symbolic unison.

I am the sound of soul, love and beauty,

the thought sound of mind,

sound of intelligence,

smell, sight, touch and all others,

sound of heritage and culture

combination sound of all colors.

I am the creation sound

the melodious essence

mythical illusion

the sound of silence.

Thoughts

God is nothing or, ‘Nothing’ is God?

Death is truth or, ‘Truth’ is Death?

Life is philosophy or Philosophy is Life?

Money is earth or Earth is Money?

Such thoughts we always ponder

On the basis of our own perception

a glass half filled or half empty

an optimist or pessimist’s perception.

Perception comes from knowledge

and knowledge provides wisdom.

Desire to learn gives us knowledge

But it is love which gives us God.

Nothing is perfect or imperfect in life

it is only thought and perception

but the important is always nothing

and ‘Nothing’ is always God.

We came to this earth with nothing

shall leave this earth with nothing

Result of our life is always a ‘zero’

with intermediate coward or a hero.

Total life is only a cosmic illusion

with various thoughts and perceptions

As long as we live in this illusive dome

let us jointly chant 'OM and only 'OM'.

NOTE: 'OM' is a cosmic sound pronounced as 'AUM' during meditation for peace and happiness.

Journey and search continues...

Starting from birth
Life is a journey
Serpentine and complex
with twists and turns
ups and downs.

Journey is wonderful
Pleasing stops
Progress and achievements
occasional encounters
of darkened caves
leaving loved ones behind.

Hope remains
with the twirling lights
Distant may be
but just outside the cave
and it is worthwhile
to strive for progresse
ven with mind's sad state.

Journey goes on
Even after end of one milestone
and new journey starts
with renewed grace
new twists and turns
new life and encounters
but the journey remains...

... Manoj.K. Sanyal

Let the shadow moon glow sometime after(Petrarchan sonnet)

Let the shadow moon glow sometime after
The dusky sky be in panorama
Spread some more mystical mistier aroma
And the night comes a little bit later.
Delay the dark nakedness to splatter
With misdeeds and all sorts of enigma
Full of horror acts and shocking comma
Wish for the whole day, Sun God to glitter.

Even with cultural lights, night is darkness
Full of wrong thoughts and evil deeds inhumane
No emotional warmth and all bitterness
Lack of concern with sadistic views mundane
So, let the sun skitter spreading happiness
And save the mankind from becoming insane.

... M.K.Sanyal