Metaphysics of Woman
A Poem Composed by Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar
A clay of emotions
A body, to be caressed, embraced,
To be felt as a vision
With pristine beauty, seen in glee.
A thought of God
For giving a thought to it
Enticing the world
By her sweet and pleasing demeanor!
An umbrella to the tired and the fired
Bathed in the scorching sun of hardships,
The sheep of rudderless life
Anchoring to the shore
From the sores of solitude
By giving a company up to the last….
A fountain –
Humanity finds a way from her womb
A taste of sweetness
From honeycomb of libidinal energy,
The power boosting metabolism of man
Channelizing his energy to a goal
For him not to go astray…
Not to lose hope
Not to lend his soul
To the mysterious nymphs of the night –
Veiled in wrong womanhood…
A map of dualities –
One leading to the body, another beyond
Hung in balance, showing the Milky Way
Sustaining a new giggling, innocent life
For a healthy shape and frame
To enjoy his life
With the other big one
But in different way
Not for any energy to build his immunity
But to forget himself being lost in a trance…
Beyond all happiness, pains and sorrows…
In the fathomless feminine world
Ever flowing milk of human kindness and love
A bed of sensual gratification
Where in the deep slumber
The soul gets thus mingled with the other half,
Loses his sense of existence
In cosmic vastness, where a life finds a way
Or sometimes goes astray –
She is a vast cosmic universe
Engulfing all the physics and metaphysics of life,
Through her transcendental company
Man passes through the jungle of the body
Lost in the terrain of existence
To the celestial realm
Of divine love, peace and bliss
All life finally dissolves
In the ocean of Divine Being…
Bio of the poet: Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar is a trilingual poet (Maithili, Hindi and English), short story writer, critic and reviewer. Regularly published in various national and international magazines, both printed and online he has to his credit three collections of poems in English: Soothing Serenades: Straight From the Heart (2018), Two Indias and Other Poems (2019) and Thoughts in Solitude (2020). One of his poems on Nelson Mandela is included in the academic syllabus prescribed for the school students of Philippines. Besides, he is also a contributor to journals like The Criterion: An International Journal in English, IJML (International Journal On Multicultural Literature), The Anvil (Forum of Literature & Academic Research in English) and Harvests of New Millennium, The Interiors, Taj Mahal Review, IJES (The Indian Journal of English Studies). He is also a part of several anthologies like ‘Epitaphs’, ‘Purple Hues”, “Whispering Winds”, “Just For You, My Love”, “Heavenly Hymns”, ‘I Am a Woman”, “The Significant Anthology”, “Umbilical Cords”, “A- Divine-Madness” (Five Volumes), “Poetic Prism” – 2015 & 16, “Searching For Sublime” (Australian-Indo Poetry), “She the Shakti”, “Whispering Heart”, etc. He is also the Review Editor of Asian Signature, a literary e-journal, managed from Kolkata.