Aju Mukhopadhyay Poet Lyric

Dream Leads Us Towards the Future

Daydreaming 
With will unwavering 
Riding a robust horse
Pakshiraj or Pegasus 
The winning force 
Empowers one to reach the distant shore
Sky height unforeseen before 
But lagging in tenacity it’s often abandoned
Fading dream-flower crumbles or 
Die in the bud. 

Dreams of the night
Are often haphazard, delinked  
Flashes from the recently viewed scenes
Or distorted pieces from life’s stories
Surface from the subconscious depth  
Meaningless, devoid of wealth 
Give us miseries remaining incomplete
Desires end in surfeit. 

Dreams flowering here and there
Dry without getting care 
Dreams are after all dreams 
Rarely giving us wholesome hints
Of anything present, past or future;
Events in it are haphazard admixture
Of heterogeneous stories one forgets  
A realist often neglects.
    
If you consider that nothing finally fails 
You can try to catch a dream by its tail 
And rise up through memory’s trailing path
To its head to find if it’s worth.  

Born with dream from our birth
We strongly hope to find its worth
In every New Year 
Beyond its wear and tear 
New Year beacons us towards the future.

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Aju Mukhopadhyay January 13, 2019 at 9:39 AM Hearty thanks Lina Gautier, I feel heard by sympathetic heart.

Line Gauthier January 12, 2019 at 4:33 PM Congrats on your win, Aju. Well done.

Aju Mukhopadhyay January 9, 2019 at 10:42 AM thanks Cecil for your lively discussion.

Aju Mukhopadhyay January 7, 2019 at 5:45 AM Dear Cecelia, Thanks for your attraction, I appreciate. Regarding rhyming, you are right, I am not that particular towards exact rhyming and there are occasions when pararhyming is resorted to as they come in flow. Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer January 7, 2019 at 1:45 PM There was a modern school of thought that said rhyming was terribly inhibiting for the poet. I am glad that using pararhymes has freed you to write what you want.

Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer January 7, 2019 at 1:22 AM Congratulations Aju. I liked the originality and cultural references. "Riding a robust horse / Pakshiraj or Pegasus". On a technical note, some of the rhymes were pararhymes (almost rhymes). Was this intended?