Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “For the sake of race”. )
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 46 ☆
☆ For the sake of race ☆
Satyavati’s thoughts turbulent and tumultuous
The course of action she could conceive not
For her selfish ambition of being the maker of kings
From the throne, uprooted was Bheeshma in one shot.
Agreed she had to marry King Shantanu
Only under the condition that her sons be king crowned
Shantanu, with Satyavati besotted and mesmerized
Prince Bheeshma had to take a pledge, duty bound
Now that both her sons were without heir killed
She looked at her daughter-in-laws in disbelief
The only option was that Bheeshma become the king
And conceive sons from them, to everyone’s relief.
Nevertheless, Bheeshma, true to his words
To go back upon his vow and to oblige denied
Satyavati, finally, told him of his premarital son, Vyasa
Who, with Sage Parashar was visualized.
With the permission of Bheeshma for the sake of kingdom,
Sage Vyasa was summoned and to conceive sons ordered
In his state rowdy, was asked to mate Ambika and Ambalika
To preserve the race and carry on the lineage favoured.
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
Pune, Maharashtra
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