Sometimes I Feel

Sometimes I feel neglected;

When somebody cares not for me,

Feelings feel crushed and shattered

Seas of sorrows overflow in me!!!!

Sometimes I feel frustrated:

When smiling leaves of my life

Are plucked by the cruel siren,

Trees of joy bemoan in me!!

Sometimes I feel devastated;

The flood of tears tears the heart

Swaying away the remains of life,

Veins, dying and dried, course in me!

Sometimes I feel suffocated;

When the wind with long nails

Caress my breathing life,

Sobbing soul cries out in me!

Sometimes I feel trapped;

In the imbroglio of mysterious romance

That leads me from one heart to another

In search of soothing shelter!

Sometimes I feel dejected

When rejected by the dear one

I have had in my heart since long

Blood of love has sunk in me!!!

Sometimes I feel elated

When all the sorrows engulfing me

Pave the way for panted feelings

Seeds of thoughts sprout in me!

- Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar

GRAVE OF THOUGHTS

I think and think
Thoughts come and go
They don’t take any form
I try to catch them with meaning but in vain
For they shoot up and dissolve
Into the vast engulfing nothingness.

Thoughts inside me
Keep striving to come out of me
Hurting my heart and boggling my mind
Fall flat dashing against my insensitivity
That chained the hand of my feelings
And the rising tides of thoughts lose their existence.

BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

COSMIC CLIMAX

Cosmic Climax

Interplay between
Love and lust
Sweet and subtle
A fair sexes’ bust
Strengthens the immense pillar of humanity.

Fear of carnal sins
Relishing macho force
Seeming hesitation
Avoiding intercourse
Invites the shooting arrow of Lord Cupid.

Initial inhibition gone
Lust heat gone rusty
Emotion’s ejaculation
Into the earthly cave
Sprouts the seed of a new life in the world.

Struggle of the newborn
In the battlefield of life
Competing with the self
For the earthly survival
Refines and purifies the heart of all gross desires.

= BHASKARANAND JHA BHASKAR

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