"My Poetic Propensity (Part-II) by Ashwini Kumar Goswami (the gingerbread man read aloud .TXT) 📖

"WOES & WONTS OF WINTER"

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Mankind manages most measures of maintenance,

For their surviving well with safe-sure surveillance !

To withstand winter, wrapping with winter-wears,

Warming well with alcoholic whiskeys and beers !

# Veggies savour the flavour of tastiest hot sweets,

Non-veg enjoy well with eggs, fishes and meats !

Human-race is alone blessed with choosy feasts,

Scornfully as they are aptly the civilized beasts !

# Now look at the lingering life of loitering animals,

In the streets as well as in the forests and jungles !

Shelter-less, shivering, suffering, dwindling by dying,

So also are other creatures atop the trees or flying !

# Temperature is when diminishing dangerously,

Below zero degree Celsius, rapidly, rigorously !

Windy waves, snowy storms augment the agony,

Disastrous happens atmosphere in every colony !

# Birds, too, then face fatal with similar tragedy,

Flocks of them are killed, there being no remedy !

Though all of us well know this seasonal calamity,

But egoistic only we be to be a notable celebrity !

# Unmindful all are we of the dogmas of re-birth,

Which may make man any other creature on the Earth !

As humans only are able to pray God for any boon,

He may be pleased on His Own Accord late or soon !

# What form re-birth gives us is based on our daily deeds,

So always adhere to sowing philanthropic fertile seeds !

Let us all give up addictions, if any, to our misdeeds,

That’s a dogmatic device or advice, as each religion pleads !

# Pray God, hence to benignly change His Rigorous Law,

Using His Big Quill with His Ever Invincible Paw !

To make Earth also a High-flying Heavenly Abode,

And free us all from His Heterogeneous Code !

# Why not all populous planets can be quite similar,

Without variations as are in Winter and Summer !

Heaven and Hell ought to be made unitedly unique,

At the Hands of Omniscient God and His Technique !

# LEST THERE SHOULD PREVAIL ANY SUCH DISPARITY,

BETWIXT EARTH AND HEAVEN WITHOUT ANY VARIETY !

GOD IS PLENIPOTENT TO CREATE EASILY EVERYTHING,

HE MAY EVEN CONVERT NOTHING TO ANYTHING !

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*Alliteration all along enjoyable above and here!

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“MY PASSION FOR POESY”

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I recall, I cherished poetic passion since I was just seven,
Ab initio, I often pondered over then, hell and heaven !
My Papa used to take me to his office along with him,
Officials loved me too much, as I was frolicsome and slim !

English type-writers whenever free, I was allowed to avail,
I used to type poetry thereon, to preserve poetry to prevail !
Irksome is felt now, when I knew that stuff is misplaced,
Despite all efforts, those my works couldn't yet be traced !

Long gap occurred thereafter, for my cardiaic block,
I had to undergo bypass surgery, causing a writer’s block !
During its long aftercare, I kept from poetry quite aloof,
However, p4poetry forum, attracted me to show my proof !

My contribution to this forum, emerged ambitiously thence,
It was June of preceding year, I attempted my poetry exactly whence !
To my best of worth, I continue yet my contribution,
Cocksure, I am, always, my each poem is well-praised intuition !

Similarly, I expect all poets to adopt an attribution,
Not to reserve their work and worth, without distribution !
As all are not provided with credible crowdy audience,
Poetry is a distinct device to prove your skill and sense !

Eternal is poetry, may be poets naturally mortal,
Their name and fame preserves poetry, making it immortal !
Kalidas, Surdas, Tulsidas &c., apparently appear alive,
Whenever read their poesy, they seem to yet survive !

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“POETIC PARAMETERS”

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(1) Alliteration (2) Allusion (3) Assonance (4) Bravery;

(5) Comedy (6) Diction (7) Elegy/Threnody (8) Epics;

(9) Free Verse/vers libre (10) Legend (11) Lyric (12) Metaphor;

(13) Metres (14) Monologue/dialogue (15) Myth (16) Oxymoron;

Parody (18) Prosody (19) Renaissance (20) Reverie/Day-Dream;

(21) Rhyme (22) Rhythm (23) Tragedy (24) Travesty and

(25) Stanzas – Couplet; tercet; quatrain; rhyme royal; ottava rima; spensarian stanza; and sonnet.

ADDENDA: PLEASE ALSO ADD:- “Humour”, “Pentameter” And

“Sestet ” suitably to the above list of “Poetic Parameters” and

also “Pronunciation”, “Musical Tone”.


A poet is he who knows and understands,

At least something about the above 30 poetic trends !

While reading or writing any poems,

The above trends add to poems, wordy poetic gems !

Those who write poetry unmindful of above trends,

Their effort always needs unwanted amends !

Critics, too, should be ever well conversant,

They are supposed more competent to make comment !

Their role more and more is very important,

They should never hesitate for even adverse comment !

No matter, whosoever, may be the poet’s name,

Not the name, but poem is his claim of fame !

Carelessly writing away from above trends,

Results in unusually piling numerous poems,

Meekly I come forward, every poet, to implore,

Not to write any poetry, which may badly bore !

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“POSTHUMOUS PENURY”

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Certainty and surety are defined dogmatically with death

Uncertain, unknown remains all the aftermath !

Innumerable families depend on a sole bread-winner,

Single-handed hardly he procures diet or dinner !

Hand-to-mouth such family growing undeveloped,

Basic needs of bread-clothes-house tightly enveloped !

Elementary education even is an ego in the dreams,

Ignorant are all others including social teams !

Divine Law yet remains rigid without benevolence,

Incapable is such situation to sustain intolerance !

The climax occurs even yet through cruel calamity,

Circumstantially when the bread-winner becomes a casualty !

Such family highly hard-hit, cannot fight fatality,

People only gather showing flimsy favourability !

Posthumous performances render the family overburdened,

In addition to that of debt already left by the abandoned !

People’s formal sympathy cannot heal any such wound,

Humanity seems vanished when humans are so ruined !

Numerous families are undergoing such Divine Tyranny,

Meager and negligible is succour, if any !

These are grave grievances of public concern,

Government and Social Groups must direly discern !

Orphanage and shelter-homes need be ubiquitous,

Provided with needy amenities and apparatus !!

Helpful is always in the nation, any benevolent donator,

If called upon earnestly, he may come eagerly to monitor !

Grace of God is solicitous, if sought unanimously,

As even iron is flattened, if hammered continuously !

Poets are implored earnestly to play also their part,

Interning this poem of mine in the core of their heart !

Philanthropy should be observed, ever remembering it apart,

This should be the admitted dogma making it a chart !

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“GRACELESS GREED”
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Crazy are the people, to ever gain a glance of a filmy fame,

Gracelessly greedy hero-heroines, who play only lucrative game !

Sky-high are their acting-advertising rates,

Even then they assign rigidly their signing dates !


Directors ‘n’ Producers are obliged to accomplish,

As they are helpless and satiate their wish !

Nobody cares to realize its consequences,

People as well the youth seem having lost their senses !


Besides acting rates, advertising rates are too high,

These guys momentarily appear even to tell a lie !

A Superhero pleads, he has been using “NAVARATAN OIL” brand,

For the last 35 years, imposing blindly its demand !


How much true, is his such utterance, we all know very well,

Indecipherable are charges for only to so tell !

Though there are other celebrities easily available,

Who may be invited reverently, very less payable !


Virtually, advertising even then can stand intact,

Flimsy favour may be undone, to break the filmy pact !

National service of filmy folk is seemingly zero,

Money-monger is every heroine or any hero !


Horn of plenty, they themselves only avail,

Unmindful of, if in the nation, heavy taxes prevail !

Any film after release, may inadvertently fail,

Actors’ rates paid even then nobody can curtail !


Sons and daughters of actors step in as successors,

For their fame, Producers face much pressures !

Totally, their family forwards earning with speed,

Unbreakable seems their very graceless greed !


They enjoy life in their splendid sky-scrapers,

Spectators keep watching films even in sultry vapours !

Ultimately, all this creates the national imbalance,

Contributory is our flimsy faith and impertinence !


Partly responsible is introverted intelligentsia,

Remaining aloof even for such cornucopia !

They must come forward to impart such lessons,

As may do away with all non-sense at once !

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“FISCAL FIASCO”

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Income Tax, House Tax, Entertainment Tax,

Land Tax, Property Tax, Road Tax, Sales Tax,

Besides these Seven Taxes may be yet New Tax !

All these elements are to irk people and vex !


These are the imposed burden for all of us,

Salary and allowances earned thus face minus !

People ever flounder to create extra income,

Commission and corruption are its outcome !


Taxes, however,add