Stranger

Beloved Stranger,

Be whoever or whatever,

Destructor or preserver,

Infidel or a believer,

It's under your power,

You are your controller,

Let me be your lover forever,

I know not if I'm too older,

For me age is just a number,

In heart I'm still a toddler,

Longing for your amour,

Reckoning you as my charmer.

No intention to tame you,

Neither to ever blame you,

If someone better meets you

And the new life needs you,

You are free to be just you,

I'll never be there to cease you;

For me it won't be an issue new,

Life doesn't remain pink or blue,

This is what I always knew,

With such experiences I grew,

I'll be the first to bid you adiew,

If you feel I mean nothing to you.

© Anupam Mishra

ए ज़िन्दगी

ए ज़िन्दगी,

तुझसे कैसी शिकायत,

कैसी तुझसे कोई बेरुखी,

हां, कभी तू लगती पहेली सी,

कभी इकलौती सहेली सी;

एक आंगन में पली बढ़ी

दूसरे आंगन को बसाने चली,

एक एक कर दो कलियां खिली,

दोनों ही तेरी छोटी सी दुनिया बनी;

तूने देखा मुझे कभी हारते हुए,

कई बार गिर कर आंसूं बहाते हुए,

और फिर उन्हें पोछ आगे बढ़ते हुए,

तू सांस देकर रही पीछे ढाढस बढ़ाते हुए;

हां, एक दो बार मन हुआ मेरा भी,

दुख के भार से बोझल होकर यूं ही

धोखे से छोड़ तुझे भाग चलूं कहीं भी,

मौत को लगा गले उसके साथ चलूं कहीं;

पर क्षणिक था वो ख्याल, आया उस पल ही

और उसी पल धुएं सा विलीन हुआ कहीं,

देख दुखों का बढ़ता बाज़ार आस पास ही,

भीतर का दुख सिमट कर रह गया भीतर ही;

न तो मैं पहली हूं यहां, न ही आखिरी,

जिसने तेरे संग की है कभी बद सलूकी,

तो कभी तुझ पर प्यार सारी उड़ेल दी,

एक एक बूंद तेरी दिल में अपने उतार ली;

कैसी हूं देख मैं तेरी कद्रदान मनचली,

जो भी राह दिखाती है तू, मैं उधर चली,

राह में मिलाएं तूने जिससे भी जहां भी,

सभी को दुआ सलाम ठोकती चली।

©अनुपम मिश्र

MNOP

Maturity comes with experience but

Naturally it can be nourished with the

Obstructions which test the level of

Perseverance, power and patience

Bringing out the inner strength.

©amritsagar

Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder

'Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.'

I wonder today

Why no one taught me

The most important

Lesson of life;

I was asked to dream,

I was asked to toil ,

I was asked to struggle

And then taste the fruits;

No one ever told me

I need to appreciate

Each & every achievement,

Eulogizing all my efforts;

I might have received

A pile of life's certificates,

No one will ever appreciate,

Unless I myself initiate.

The life itself taught me,

The basic essence of life,

To be happy & contented

I need to first love myself.

Yes, I'm beautiful,

Forgetting how fat or fair I'm,

Yes, I'm adorable,

Reckoning my eternal flavour.

Anupam Mishra

©anupamsabhivyakti

Nonsense Poem

An admirable ascetic advised an adventurous ant, 

Babbling brilliantly between big brown bugs bright,

Careless comrade considered the counsel corrupt, 

Dancing dangerously to discover delicious dessert,.

Enough energy exhausted expecting egoistic exit,

Failure fired the fakir's frown forcing the frog to faint, 

Getting golds greedy garden guard gambled for gift 

Hallucinated to harness hybrid horses of hill's height,

Imitated in ideal innocence, idle informer intelligent,

Jumping in jokers joy just to justify judgmental jest.

Kind king kindled key knowledge of kidding knight,

Lighting lamps for the laughs of lonely lark that's lost

Making mischievous monkeys maintain measurement

Nibbling nasty narcotics neutralizing nature's nest

Often objecting obstacles observed over odd old owl

Peacefully plucking pricky particles of pretty plant

Questioning on the queer qualified quick and quiet

Reviving the radiance of recorded rattling rational rant

Simply spending screaming self securing scant sight

Trusting the tender teams to tackle threatening tenant

Unique undertaker uses unicorn to understand unit

Variety of valuable vegetation veiled in verses vacant

Witnessing white walls washed in wintergreen want

Xeroxing the x ray of xmas in xanadu for xerophyte

Yet yelling at the yawning yak for your yellow yogurt

Zillion zoo zipped in the zombie's zooming zygote.

©amritsagar

Anupam Mishra

Alphopp

#alphopp

Who

Wants to

Wander without reason,

Wishing to be unreasonable,

Whitewashing one's own perception won?

© Anupam Mishra

IJKL

I don't want to change you

Just do whatever you wish but

Keep it in your mind

Love is the foundation of life

Without which nothing can survive.

©amritsagar

TUVW

To learn something

Under pressure 

Very few people

Withhold their

Devotion and passion.

©amritsagar

EFGH

Eyes are waiting

For someone who

Gave the answer

Honestly how he hated me. 

Though I believe he'll come for me.

©amritsagar

Heart to soul

Think not who I am,

Seek not where I am,

Feel it, I am within you,

Just listen to your beats within,

Let the enigmatic current rush in

With the help of your mind playing

From the heart to your soul.

Anupam Mishra

Desire

I wish if the roads too have spoken

Revealing who all have already trodden,

Giving the feedback for the destination chosen

Along with its own feeling and expression;

I'm very sure nothing would tend to destruction,

But each and everyone would get to perfection,

With the analysis of the results of every action.

The road has hidden so many stories within,

However the roads may be difficult or dim,

To explore I just need a company with Him.

Anupam Mishra

Beauty

Beauty is nothing

But the way we see a thing,

For one it can be amazing,

for the other it can be depressing,

And for some it can be just nothing.

It's all dependent on the thoughts within,

We see or feel that we have taken in,

And that varies for each and every brain.

© Anupam Mishra

Bike love

It's enough to have a few feet to stay alive

Far from the huge towers and luxurious ride,

Under the sun, near the shore with just a bike,

I can pedal around the whole day and night

Just to retain the tranquility gained in this plight.

©Anupam Mishra

Freedom

Freedom

Let me be myself to have all the fun

Whether I soar high in the sky or run,

Let my fears get burned in the sun,

As my new era of life has already begun.

©Anupam Mishra

Power And Politics

Power had a tough time with the general public

Each one wished to show how one was specific,

Politics was lying idle watching all the rustic,

He called power to ask her to be realistic

And join politics to do the favour to the public.

Power didn't even want to think on this topic,

She joined Politics and was left with no power to think.

©Anupam Mishra

Simple Model

I'm not an eligent damsel

Nor a gifted exceptional mortal

But a simple surviving model

That knows what's fake or real

Even when everything is sureal.

©amritsagar

Foolish Heart

It's not a big deal to get hurt

After all it's not so smart

To deal with every start

It's just a petty bloody heart. 

When dealing with the present

This half-wit dwells in the past

Repenting for the moments passed

Though nothing it can re-cast. 

Why does this moron forget

It can access only present

However it longs for the past

And wishes to change some part. 

Though possess all the respect

For the vivid emotions it felt

With the wanted or unwanted result

Bringing agony, ecstasy and trust.

©amritsagar

Prayer

Blessed are those who have eyes to see

To decide whether to choose 'A' or 'B'

As to add colours in life it's the only key 

Blessed are those who can listen

And assess the every drum beaten

From the range of the music chosen. 

Blessed are those who can express

Whatever comes in joy or distress

With words drenched in emotion to address.

Blessed are those who have a family

To not to let them ever feel lonely

But to support and guide uniformly. 

Thank Almighty for whatever you possess

Enjoy everything without expecting excess

And then on every stop you'll find success.

©amritsagar

My Moon

My Moon

I sat in stillness all alone

One night under the sky

When all slept except the moon

Who greeted me with eternal smile

In silence we converse for a while

And then bid each other bye.

Zealously to meet him I came out

After a long day on the other night

But he was nowhere in the heaven

Though the stars were scattered there.

I woefully missed his presence

As I'd to say something in his agile ear. 

I thought he too had ditched me

Like the other important ones in my life

So in annoyance I sat in the dark. 

To my astonishment he came back

With the same smile he materialized

Provoking me to forget what's passed. 

I asked, "Where have you been?"

He just smiled saying nothing

Silently training me to get habituated

With whatever has been happening.

Now I could see him grow and disappear

With the same love and warmth forever.

©amritsagar

Anupam Mishra

Rhyme A- Z

An ant was angry

Big boy burnt its bakery

Cunning cat cut its cutlery

Dummy dog dried its dairy

Eating its eggs eagle enjoys enemity

Funny fat fish fought in fury

Good gracious goat gave her a guinea

Helping her to have herbs healthy

Intelligent I immitated ice idly

Juggling joker jumped on jam and jelly

Kind king kept the kangaroo's key

Lion lent the last leaf to lamb lovely

Man mastered my mischievous monkey

No one knew the nosy nurse of nanny

Owl with others objected for oats only

Parrot and penguin packed paint patiently

Quiet quilt of the queen quacked quickly

Rusty rabbit ran on the road rapidly

Sunny stag sent the son to stand strongly

Twisted tomato took two ties for teddy

Unlucky unicorn united uncle with ugly

Voilent Vegetables were valued in the valley

Windows wished to wander with the wind

X rays of the x mas trees were there in the box

Yak played with the yoyo for the whole year

Zip of the zebra looked like zero to the zoo. 

© Anupam mishra