A Cordial Homage

Nightingale, O my dear Nightingale

You flew away to the farthest

Heaven living behind lamenting

Turmoil.

Sweet and heart-touching waves

Of your transparent tone...Chalo

Chalen maa...Chanda mama durke...

Once was making me nap on my

Mom's delicate lap while I was

Four to six echoing in my ears.

Often my kiddish obstinacy

Was disturbing my Mom when

She used to play our HMV

Gramophone to feed me well

So as to make me happy.

Bollywood evergreen songs

Of yours made me enchanted

While I was ten that turned me

A fan and stopped me to be a

Naughty.

Each full moon night ever

Made my adolescence spiritful

With an urge of playing your

Duet songs dipping my mind in

A Romantic gail.

Duriing my twenties while I

Was married and employed

Your Romantic Love provoking

Bollywood evergreen duets

Strengthened our conjugal

Minds with a bond of mutual

Amorous ties concretely.

When the cruel course of time

Beckons me presently to be

An exservice man and the

Undue tension of the world

Began to capture my activities 

In it's trap, at once my forefinger

Clicks on You Tube for your

Evergreen refreshing songs

Which reinvigorate my psycho

Somatic stamina so as to

Become a best tackler.

O dearest Nightingale the

Great I beseech your nobleself

Fervently never to deprive my

Antique brain cells of your life

Nourishing and soul elevating

Sweet coos all the while

Through the net and clicks

During my sexagenerianhood

Without a break.

O my Divine Nightingale

Though you are absent since

The sixth instant among us

You can never be absent

From our hearts up to the eternity so

That we can taste the flavour

Of februalia in order to

Achieve self enlightenment

For the allround progress of

Global mankind with peace

And harmony for ever.

O Pious soul of Heavenly

Nightingale please never

Carry off the effulgent

Qualities, moralities and

Chastity instead of dropping

Them on the floor of your

Global villa so as

To be followed and shared

By the Global Women's Race

During the current century

For a bright future

Generation.

[ A bunch of clicks for our revered

And beloved masterpiece singer

Late Lata jee - A tribute of A. Panda

Dated 15.2.2022,Cuttack ]