Silent men, Talking Machine

Basudev Karmakar 1974 (West Bengal , India)



Silent men, Talking Machine

   I went to deposit in bank.
   The cashier was very frank.
         He silently took the voucher;
         My money got a transfer.
        The guard opened the gate.
         I left the bank straight.

    In a train I was traveling.
    Only a hawker was shouting.
         All were in phone;
         None had any tone.
         The hawker gave one a chocolate;
         He tried to thrust it in my pocket.

     A day I saw a friend of mine.
     I beckoned him for a time.
          He gestured me his phone;
          Rang the message tone.
          He wrote, Cll u latr'.
          I replied, 'N.P. dr'.

    A day only machine will talk,
    Silent will be the men folk.
           They will forget to laugh,
           Everything will be in whatsapp.
           To make them speak,
            Medicine they must need.

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A day to come when none would talk. They would be busy on phone

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Written on October 03, 2023

Submitted by karmakar.basudev on October 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X AABBCC DDEEFF XXEEBX XXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 871
Words 159
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 6, 6, 6

Basudev Karmakar

Lives in Kolkata. Graduated from Malda, west Bengal...persuaded MA from Kolkata, West Bengal. more…

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