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Harsh Winter by Koyel Mitra

9/9/2008

Morn sky caked with smog
Sun concealed in misty lair
Foggy thoughts in mind.

Landscape draped with snow
Rose petals stripped of beauty
Chilly thougths rain hard.

Memories by Koyel Mitra

9/8/2008

Digging my memories
I find nothing but
darkness clawing at
the flesh of my mind.

My heart warped
My inside dying
with intense pain.
Unable to repress
unrelenting tears.

This cannot go on
Life has to move on
I must burn them
and live off the ashes!

FLO WITH LIFE (RONDEL) by Koyel Mitra

8/9/2010

Don't brood over the past and things before.
Just like a quick river let your life flow.
With sheer happiness make your face aglow.
Be glad with what you have, don't ask for more.

Think of bright days to come and don't feel sore.
Life is a cycle of mirth and sorrow.
Don't brood over the past and things before.
Just like a quick river let your life flow.

Stop musing on the gloomy days of yore.
Life has both joy and sadness to bestow,
Take life as it comes and upsets, although
Remember that sunny days are in store.
Don't brood over the past and things before.

Rondel
A French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows:
ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats.

His Gift(Cinquain) by Koyel Mitra

8/14/2008

Present
precious,nice
offered,taken,enjoyed
token of immortal fondness
priceless!

My Thoughts(Japanese Lanturne) by Koyel Mitra

7/9/2008

My
dismal
thoughts yield on
paper doleful
words!

She by Koyel Mitra

7/8/2008

If rubies be red
her cheeks are redder
If snow be white
her complexion is whiter
If turquoise be blue
her eyes are bluer
If the sun be golden
her hair is more golden
If corals be reddish-pink
her coral lips are far better
If Heaven be bliss
she's more bliss
The prettiest flower ever bloomed
thats how she is.

Pam(Alliterative Ethere) by Koyel Mitra

7/5/2008

Pam
perky
plays piano
prig,puritan
protean poet
poems plagiarized
provoked paroxysm,pangs
pertinacious Pam persevered
poems'penchant,patience persisted
philistine Paul pinioned,pilloried.

Sweet Fancy by Koyel Mitra

7/4/2008

Oh sweet fancy
with silver pinions
you have flown away.

You must have been in pain
the fetters being the bane
trying to restrain you in vain.

In pain you were writhing
failed to notice you seething
with unbridled rage you were quaking.

Alas!you wrenched my mind
unleashed all the shackles
and went away.

Home-sickness(A reversed double nonet) by Koyel Mitra

7/28/2008

Far
from home
I stay in
a desolate place
miss Mom and Dad's love
here only solitude
with no one to share and care
tedious, monotonous work
depressing,hard life pressing on me
Here no helping hand to wash dishes
wearied with dull drudgery
absence of simple things,ways
miss brother and sister
miss togetherness
miss Mom's cooking
solace in
poetry
books

Politicians(Senryu) by Koyel Mitra

7/27/2008

Politicians
in disguised benevolence
do people damage.

TRIALS OF LIFE ( TROLAAN) by Koyel Mitra

7/23/2010

Often life becomes perilous
Obfuscated, we stop, falter.
Overloaded with stress, nervous;
Overwhelmed, tense in our danger.

Fear grapples us with all its might.
Fumbling, we don't know what to do.
Fortitude is what we need right.
Forbearance can be our rescue.

Easily we can overcome
Every obstacle in our life,
Each thorn in our path if become
Equable even in our strife.

As we face each hurdle with ease
And thread our way through the risky
Acclivities, worrying we cease.
At last our spirits turn lively.

Form: Trolaan
Trolaan, created by Valerie Peterson Brown, is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains.
Each quatrain begins with the same letter. The rhyme scheme is abab.

Starting with the second stanza you use the second letter of the first line of the first
stanza to write the second each line beginning with that letter.

On the third stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza
and write the third each line beginning with that letter.

On the fourth stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza
and write the fourth each line beginning with that letter.

Sanguinary Success( A Quinzaine) by Koyel Mitra

7/22/2008

Gory wars,blood-spilled victories
Are blood-thirsty wars
true victories?

You ( A Paradelle) by Koyel Mitra

7/22/2008

I love you,my baby
I love you, my baby
Your thoughts will continue to torment me
Your thoughts will continue to torment me
You continue to torment me
I will love your love,my baby

Sipping love potion burnt my lips
Sipping love potion burnt my lips
The heat scorched my soul
The heat scorched my soul
Sipping love potion scorched my soul
The heat burnt my lips

Knowing not whether you love me
Knowing not whether you love me
Still my love for you is blind
Still my love for you is blind
My love is blind for you
knowing not whether you still love me

The heat will continue to torment me
Your thoughts scorched my soul
Sipping love potion burnt my lips
My love for you is blind
Not knowing whether you love me
Still I love you,my baby.

Fairy or Angel? by Koyel Mitra

7/20/2008

I dreamt one day that a fairy was giving me a boon
by which beauty, wealth,fame would accrue to me soon;
I began to ponder then
with age beauty would wane
I would crave for more wealth and fame
so I decided to repeal them.

The next day I dreamt that an angel was giving me a boon
by which love,peace and happiness would acrrue to me soon
I began to think again
love,peace and happiness would forever reign
so I decided to keep them with me
they filled my heart with profound ecstasy.

Clerihew( for Marcia) by Koyel Mitra

7/2/2008

There is a woman called Marcia,
she loves to hear the band Euphoria,
which is very cacophonous,
her taste for music is horrendous.

Sad Story(Alliterative Ethere) by Koyel Mitra

7/2/2008

Sue
Spanish
superstar
spurned sycophants
slangy starlets sprung
self confidence shattered
started sad,sable surprise
soon scintillating stardom slain
success starved, submerged sorrowful sea
surrendered, sympathetic succour stretched.

Cruel Time by Koyel Mitra

7/14/2008

My once black hair
now all white
My keen eyesight
now a blurred vision
My once pretty face
now wrinkled
My sharp ears
now with hearing aid
My once glowy skin
now dry and crumpled
My once strong teeth
now toothless gums
By Time's fell hand
beauty's rose thus withered!

Beauty by Koyel Mitra

7/12/2008

Beauty is the bountiful Nature,
beauty is the birds' rapture;
beauty is sun's beams,
beauty is magical dreams;
beauty is the meadow verdant and lush,
beauty is the painter's colourful brush;
beauty is the snow-capped mountains,
beauty is the hill-side terrains;
beauty is the inner radiance,
beauty is not the outer radiance!

The Place of Dreams(Reversed Ethere) by Koyel Mitra

7/11/2008

I want to go to a place where there are
trees with silver boughs and golden fruits
large Elysian parks for children
old people heave relief sighs
nightingales sing sweetly
lovers enjoy much
no pall of gloom
perfect mirth
always
life!

Friend(Acrostic) by Koyel Mitra

7/1/2008

For holding your hand in need,
raining happiness,
inculcating the gospel of love,
ending solitude,
negotiating problems,
dabbing tearful eyes a friend is there.