HAPPY WORLD POETRY DAY A LOOK AT LIFE-95 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY POETRY Poetry is a beautiful dream In a sleepless summer night That comes with a smile When you are silently dozing Poetry is the hope in the eyes Of someone terminally ill Poetry is a ray of light Amidst darkness, frustration and apathy Poetry is life That puts death at bay Poetry is the eternal spring that drives The hot summer away Poetry is the beauty of childhood The spirit of youth and stay of old age Poetry is that unusual summer shower That drenches your body and mind When you feel exhausted and out of the world Poetry is mother's lap And father's shadow Sister's rakhi on your hand Friend's heart, brother's love and concern The voice of Bulbul in a dry desert Poetry is a lovely pair of eyes That waits for you for hours The quivering lips Locked with yours And the waves of dimples writing The lyric of romance and love Poetry is grace and beauty undefined The eyes of the blind and The voice of the dumb The love of the old man for his wife Their undefined chemistry The passion and feeling that saw them Through the years of their life Poetry is a beautiful garden The beauty of which never fades The perennial stream That never dries up The symphony of love That always murmurs The innate urge that sustains existence Pushes life to fight for its own survival For me, poetry is hard reality A safe pair of hands That never betrays Never plays with my existence Mouth, nose and eyes, My fingers always clean Before they touch my mouth Always at a safe distance My beautiful hands that stood by me All along in moments of happiness and annoyance The need of the time is poetry Health and hygiene Social distancing Lots of guts and common sense Warm water and natural vitamin c To boost the immunity To fight against the virus invading Poetry is the story of mankind Its ebb and tide, fight against circumstances To come to the zenith Poetry is life Its beauty, contradictions and intricacies Poetry is the will, force and Means for survival against all odds Even when the world is struggling against Coronavirus When there is darkness everywhere Poetry as a ray of hope shines in my eyes Holds me, beats in the heart of heart As an ocean of hope, tells me emphatically Go ahead the victory is yours. That which sustains existence Uplifts and fulfils life Takes you to new horizons To different levels of consciousness That which is always with you Irrespective of your situation And state of mind is poetry. That which brings you close to life Faithfully reflects you, your surrounding your joy and anguish is poetry Poetry in not all about love and romance Nature and its beauty, rhythm and rhyme Poetry is living with the reality Accepting life as it is Smruti Ranjan Mohanty© ©Smruti Ranjan mohanty HAPPY WORLD POETRY DAY A LOOK AT LIFE-95 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY POETRY Poetry is a beautiful dream