One moment was enough.



A happily married couple
Young IT professionals
Handsome salaries
Life is an endless tweet.

A beautiful morn’
Breakfast hour
The usual chirps
Soft and casual winds

Something triggered amidst
Gales began to gather
Volcanoes sprang alive
Land-slides took place.

An emotional rupture
A moment of total eclipse
In that complete darkness
She was stabbed, now a garbage!

His hearth was still hot
It burnt his thoughts.
It was a total sweep
It was now a useless weep.

He was left in the lurch
He bid farewell to all springs.
Suicide and no more-
He grabbed a length of rope.

But death spared him for a moment
Broken rope left him tormented.
He was at his wits' end
The claws of death were but firm.

And a jump from the thirteenth floor-
The galore of life came to an end.
That was indeed pageantry
Too short, emotional and self-destructive

One moment was enough-
Life was completely gone.
Beware of the deep lurking snakes,
One bite can vaporize life.
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About this poem

Outwardly we may appear to be very calm, cool, and collected, but, in a single given moment, the devil in us may play havoc. Read the following based on a report. In the modern world where surging emotions dictate our lives, this poem is very relevant and must be an eye-opener for us all.

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Written on September 24, 2013

Submitted by ravi_panamanna on December 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX XBXX XBXX BXXX XXCC XXDX XXEX DEXX XXXXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 978
Words 189
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

Ravi Panamanna

My actual name is Subramanian A. I am a retired official of the State Bank of India. Settled in Palakkad, Kerala, India. My literary awards include The Barath Award for Literature (best story), and the Poiesis Awards both in Poetry and short story, all conducted jointly by Xpress publications.com. My interests cover photography, philosophy, and science. Google search under Ravi Panamanna would take the searcher to my various links. more…

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