Desperate Moments

Quaid-Uz-Zaman 1954 (Jamalpur)



Each house is a volcano
live or dead,
gushing out lava red,
panic is the name for white blood cells;

Witches telling tales to their's progeny,
owls knitting silence in vain, sorry, I can't  tell  tomorrow's fate,
even after a second, my breath is a mystery, bending  always towards the western sky.

Still under the rubble beneath the ashes,  I will  keep on searching ...
I want my magic lantern back.

Shadows wandering,
black deaths hovering
over the long stretched Milky Way,
I hear the soft sounds descending,
I turn to the soul,
Oh! Welcome,  my native language.

(Station Road, Jamalpur)
07.09.2021)
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Submitted by Quaid-Uz-Zaman on September 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAAX XXX BX BBXBXX XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 587
Words 103
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 6, 2

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Retired college teacher.Has published two books of poetry. Also has poems published online. more…

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