What Peace is like

Peace is like the early rays of the Sun,
slightly auburn, spreading on the eastern sky.
Peace is like the mild setting Sun, sure of its return,
splashing colours on the western sky.
Peace is like the rising full moon, bright in its orb,
from above the rows of giant palm trees.
Peace is like the resting of the elephants
in a sward before the promised sunrise.
Peace is like the birth of an arc-rainbow
after the gale and copious rain.
Peace is like a sleeping pregnant cat
on top of the hay stacked in a burn.
Peace is like the child’s sucking sound
from the round breast of its mother.
Peace is like the deep silence of the wood
pregnant with promises near.
Peace is like the concurrent rain
spreading across the vale and dale.
Peace is like the trustful pacing of the child
holding his father’s finger top with nail.
Peace is love, Peace is smile
Peace is fragrance of the flower.
Peace is faithful surrender to the Divine
Peace is enchanting shower.
Peace has its last resort away from the earthly bower
in the Nirvanic void;
beyond the domain of science, history or logic
even as it baffles the ideas of Freud.
Peace is love, Peace is smile
Let the true Peace spread
Let this not be fragile.

From: 
Aju Mukhopadhyay




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Aju Mukhopadhyay, the poet, author and critic is a bilingual writer of fiction and essays. He has authored 28 books and received several poetry awards besides other honours. His works have been recognized by various national and international institutions. Many of his works have been translated in other languages and anthologised. He is a regular contributor to various magazines and e-zines in India and abroad. Five books contain critique on his poetry and his poems. Two books of Indian English Sort Stories contain his short stories. More than a dozen and a half of scholarly books contain his works on Indian English Literature. He is regularly published as writer on animals and wildlife. Conservation of Nature and Environment is the watch word of his life., List of his books of poems in English:, The Witness Tree (Poems-Writers Workshop), In Celebration of Nature (Poems), The Paper Boat (Poems), Insect’s Nest and Other Poems (Poems), Aju Mukhopadhyay’s Poems on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Poems), Short Verse Vast Universe and Short Verse Delight (Haiku and other short verses in both the books with essays)


Last updated October 04, 2011