Look up n Light
Surajit Mahalanobis 1948 (Kolkata)
January 24Try me not in chains of gold,
My gate to life’s free n bold
In its soil, a racy lion yet
Crossing hundreds of miles that you cannot pet.
M not crooning in iambic hexameters
To mean lucid, easy going saunters
Of tearful joys of life in Keatsean mirth
In th’ march for resplendence o’ earth.
Try me not in steeplechase
Galloping past the rainbowedsky
Weakening life all in exuberance
Shunning the stupor, disdain and wry.
Let’s go for a run, hundreds and thousands
Along the miles, past meadows, reefs, n creeks
Where sun doesn’t die, nor stands
Aloof to watch my gate falls bricks by bricks
About this poem
Intended Idea: In my efforts to excel at what I am doing (teaching and researching), I am denied the access to join the competition. The lure for not joining it, is golden (by petty jobs comfortable here), yet that stops my heart from doing what I can achieve (access to the international scholarship). So please don’t stop me from what I want to do for perpetuating the resplendence of life by rules (age barriers), edicts (from pristine institutions) or ploy (political and myopic), allow my gate (access) free and bold for the best. I have lionised my aspiration (will), you cannot stop by weakening me to put me in everlasting stupor. I will achieve and be with the sun of my capabilities (grit and the utmost capacity) that will not allow my efforts break step by step. Inner meaning: Life is fertile, continual. In its stride, it involves every individual’s efforts For trying to do anything which is likely to ensure bright results for the benefit of humankind. There is always irrational e more »
Written on December 11, 2023
Submitted by smahalanobis2008 on January 24, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABB CCDD CXCX CCCC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 116 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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