FRIGHT
Life in the valley
Pulsated like
An uncertain song,
Out of tune like a
Mad drumming pulse.
His valley misted under
The teary-eyed panic,
Fright seeped in like lichen
Spread over the slopes,
There Hangul* lived along
With nimble-footed fear
Fearing where the next step
Would be?
Into Valley torture
Or the gorges of death.
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*Hangul….. A kind of deer and now one of the extinct species of Kashmir.
About this poem
Nostalgia....remembering my village after the mass exodus of my community from Kashmir in the year 1990.
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Written on May 14, 1993
Submitted by chander.1831 on August 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBXXCXXXBDXACX D |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 1 |
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