That winter the north wind blows
That winter the north wind blows;
his lost heart too frozen to feel
the dazzling tunes of ice and fire as all they wow
Next as the breezes of rebirth follow;
colors, crops, and carnivals light up this world but
all this surrounding joy, his frozen heart barely thaws
He cuts and polishes the uncut gems for show;
As the parasite of a family host on him, he wonders
Only if cancer was as trivial as their imaginary money woes
That summer the loo flows;
Memories of waterfalls, beaches and
of the sun, sand castles, drenched dances and drunken rows
As the monsoon creeps on its toes;
he hums to her hospital playlist and
clasps her portrait as the rain lashes his forlorn brows
As the cool winds again start to flow;
And the day becomes shorter and pleasant
he paints gangues scraped off their gems in melancholy's throes
That winter again as the north wind blows;
At her grave, up he shows and sees on it
a lone lily bloom, smiles, as his heart a bit more thaws
- Aurovind Acharya
About this poem
This poem is inspired by the personal tragedy that a close relative of the poet experienced.
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Written on July 01, 2021
Submitted by aurovind200 on August 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXX BXC BXA ADA ADX BXA AXC X |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,015 |
Words | 183 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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