The Poetic Art of Birbhadra Karkidholi with Special Reference of the Thematic Variety in Pristine Stroke

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MAHATMA

To the brim, his dreams

Once cherished in gleams

Now shattered, their reflections

On the still surface of streams;

The pigeon in its flights

In the wide blue expanse

Now in the confines of cages

Now in the shackles of evils;

The flowers on green stems

In immaculate white-glow

In spite of the alien blow

Now faded to clouded beams;

Really are impetuous victims

The deer amidst the wild

Free to live in inequality

In the grim guise of equality;

The just, just all welfare

For the just cause of justice

Bartered to swing in imbalance

Turned deaf, blind and dumb;

Sheer virtues are values

In misuse for abuse

For mere money and power:

Ineffectual, false prestige;

He once in high acclaims

As Mahatma, the Great Soul;

Now echoes the wail of woes

In the deep vales of his soul;                               

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TRIVENI        Jul-Sep, 2015

Soil

The chief venue for life and death
And for rebirth for virtues and values
Ebbs and tides; victories and failures
You let a struggle go on till breath;

The kite soars and soars; the thread
Helps it fly high and high into the sky
In a boy’s hands in the plains stand by
Falls to you alone with tail and head;

The athlete jumps with all his vigor,
And sky-touching spirit as a big prize;
But comes back to you in his tiny size;
The stars mock at over aiming nature;

The farmer ploughs in sweat his fields;
The sense of duty for life of creatures
The sense of beauty for due pleasures
Growing from your heart your yields;

The patriot fights a relentless struggle;
Dies for the image in endless chronicle;
Merges you as a tiny deathless particle
To rise again to face the pathless tangle; 

To offer life, you are the life-fountain;  
The life to offer breath from your heart;
The life to pour growth from your part;
An inexhaustible source for all to attain;

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