मेरे मन का पागल पंछी

प्रखर प्रभा और प्रीति की रश्मि

रवि से आलोकित सारा आकाश

अंतर्मन के हर आँगन में

जगमग जगमग प्रेम प्रकाश

मेरे मन का पागल पंछी

क्यूँ उड़ उड़ आये तेरे पास .

ज्ञात है मुझको अपनी सीमा

मन ही मन करता एहसास

भावों के उन्मुक्त गगन में

मधुर मिलन का करता आस

मेरे मन का पागल पंछी

क्यूँ उड़ उड़ आये तेरे पास .

तेरे जल का प्यासा सागर

तरप तरप के देखे राह

तेरी यादों के साये में

भटक भटक के भरते आह

प्रेम गगन में जब उड़ते उड़ते

थक जाये और लग जाये प्यास

मेरे मन का पागल पंछी

क्यूँ उड़ उड़ आये तेरे पास .

BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

LOVE REGAINED

On the flowerbed of hope

With a heart with a crack

I am waiting for someone

Who will never come back.

Sweet bonds once I had

In the bower of my heart

Quite soothing to the soul

Lost and sold in the mart.

So many days and nights

My heart had been restive

I had not known in the past

Such pain love would give.

Now time has taught me

A true lesson of compromise

To live a life of mental peace

Love, unpractical, is a surmise.

BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

GLOOM

Smile has taken a flight

Towards the sky of gloom

As the beauty of a flower

Withered, can never bloom.

The face of our happiness

Has turned pale with sorrow

That has darkened our soul

To see the Light tomorrow.

Life seems painful to live

In the world without the one

Who was expected to come

Sweetening our life like a bun.

BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

REALM OF TIME

Walking everyday

Along a path unknown

With many a thought

I feel walked on and on

By the invisible feet

Of great silent Time.

Eating for my health

For sustenance of self

On this existential planet

I feel devoured to bits

By the demon of Time.

Working on my desktop

Next to the diminishing face

In the corner of work place

I feel worked on and on

By the scientist of Time.

Giving a helping hand

To the needy whoever

With whatever possible

I feel helped in distress

By Samaritan of Time.

What I do and think

Of the vision in my dream

Fail to help me fly to Him

Like a bird of peace

Loitering caged in lurch

In the wings of Time.

BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

RIGHT OR WRONG

You told me to wait for some time

And I kept waiting for you to come

With sweet fragrance of the flower

Dipped in the feelings of the chum.

Tired, I got up to say no more

What I had in my heart's core

But the relation that I have had

Told me to wait furthermore.

Innumerable days already went by

Since I have had a nice talk

To the one I liked very much

All along my life’s long walk.

Why I wait and why I write

Be it the day or the night

Why I come closer or fight

Is it to me wrong or right????

BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

POISONOUS DAMSEL

In pursuit of aesthetic sense

I was roaming in the beauty

Pining for the lessons of love

Professed by such a real cutie.

Impressed by an enticing smile

I felt encroaching her inner world

Being Ignorant of deadly venom

Of the black snake lying curled.

So charming appeared her hood

Covered with nice colorful attire

Overwhelmed, I tried to hug her

Who, in turn, set my world on fire.

Love all but with a selfless heart

Or selfishness will tear you apart.

This is the lesson I have learnt

After the gross desire was burnt.

- BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

POISONOUS LOVE

In pursuit of aesthetic sense

I was roaming in the beauty

Pining for the lessons of love

Professed by such a real cutie.

Impressed by an enticing smile

I felt encroaching her inner world

Being Ignorant of deadly venom

Of the black snake lying curled.

So charming appeared her hood

Covered with nice colorful attire

Overwhelmed, I tried to hug her

Who, in turn, set my world on fire.

Love all but with a selfless heart

Or selfishness will tear you apart.

This is the lesson I have learnt

After the gross desire was burnt.

----BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR