SPINE OF MY COUNTRY
Seshendra Sharma 1927 (Nagarazupadu Village : AP : India) – 2007 (Hyderabad : India)
Dreams are travelling
In paper boats,
Passing ports of time
Towards the horizons
Of dawn
Pregnant with sun ,
Waving flags
On the highways of oceans ;
Singing epics
Of human power
Which turns the silly earth
Into grain and fruit;
Spins civilizations
Out of mere smoke
They drive into mines
To return ,
As brigades of iron
Rush into woods
To emerge as rising axes ,
Set aside mountains
To make their way
It is not blood
That flows in their veins ;
It is the life breath
Of those
Who gave up themselves
For the children of tomorrow -
Masses of them are moving
To join the great festival
Of building sky – high – column – of – spine
For the drooping country
They are marching to stand as muscles
And to become the swarthy hands
Of the nation;
As the children in the cradles
Whose hearts they rocked
On their pathetic graves to drop
As flowers of homage
They are journeying with the wing
Dreams are travelling in paper boats -
- Seshendra Sharma
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About this poem
This poem is taken from Seshendra's " The Burning Sun " 2nd collection of prose poems
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Written on 1974
Submitted by seshendra on August 30, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Words | 177 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 42 |
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