Gita: A Sonnet on reminding the verses

Behold; know thou the passion unknown

Yet conspicuous to the senses to lure and lull

The wits those are capricious, ephemeral, and dull.

To thy eyes, what the ‘supreme’ has hitherto shown

Must make thou, and thine heart learned and firm;

 Thou canst discriminate the now the right and wrong ‘karma’.

Know thou the right way to contemplate and mull

Over the acts you do; the acts you forego;

Whither canst you go? The ‘energy’ does eternally flow!

Thou art, and the soul, have certainly definite term

To initiate and deduce thy span; then to stop near ‘herm’.

Composed by Alok Mishra

Poem 1: The Regret of Soul

The Regret of Soul

Locked in her eyes, his eyes went blind,

The world’s truth no more he could find!

He called it love; does love limit one?

Or love frees the soul to fly to horizon…

Selfish love, the love that checks free will,

Will never it let one cross the hill

Of lust, of dilemma, and of perverted path;

Selfish love at last, meets the dungeon’s wrath!

Now he sits to judge; judge he lost

Or he did gain in this vain bargain.

He weighs the truth; he weighs the cost;

He enlists his petty pleasures and tormenting pain.

He wonders her words were the eternal gospel

Or the dissuasive voice, her words were delusion’s vale…

How the soul fell in love with this ephemeral stay, the world, this is the theme of the poem written here. He stands for the soul, which is eternal; she stands for the life, which is ephemeral. Later, the soul repents his mistakes made.

Composed by Alok Mishra.