MYSTIC NIGHT

Have you seen the radiant blue sky,

but not on a clear hot noon-day sun?

How clouds across the moon pass by

like flocks of sheep merrily on the run!

The sun from afar did the moon bless -

glorifying the moon in its fruitfulness.

Isn't it just a pristine heavenly bliss,

how the moon is hugged with radiant kiss?

Something amazes just never to cease -

how silent in sleep are those busy bees!

The owl hoots and seldom it cries -

searching for food it glides and flies.

The night-life is a time of eerie silence -

when the caterpillars crawl over the fence.

The wind on the high is maybe grieving

as the clouds drift apart while unweaving.

Insects crawl out from the deep holes -

the embodiment of life, those tiny souls.

Patches on the moon covered by cloud -

like a shy damsel veiled in her shroud.

Peace, like rain on the earth thus fall -

bestowed on the creatures, one and all.

Prasenjit©2023

BE TRUE

Be the pillar that holds the bridge

when the gurgling tormentous river flow.

Be the mound that makes the ridge

where the firsts streaks of the sun glow.

Be the floor on which a palace stands

and witness glory embedded in time.

Be the memory that mingles in sands

when every life would reach its prime.

Be the shell that holds the pearl

and brave the rough on the outside.

Be the one who in danger himself unfurl

and who till his last would duty abide.

Prasenjit©2023

ENDLESS TOIL

When through the nights we toil
and have nothing to show for it -
Sweat and blood they together broil
and someone on the race did us beat.

Respect showered on who came first

while others would be forgotten still.

Imagine the passion and his thirst

while he worked up on his daily drill!

Every excess dripping warm sweat

he spends away from the prying eyes -

Every struggler does patiently wait

for the glorious destiny as his prize.

So struggle, toil and do work more

as someone else is fighting for glory -

'A dedicated will' above all would score

and legends are born through a story.

Prasenjit©2023