A Flame Not Defeated
Quaid-Uz-Zaman 1954 (Jamalpur)
i made a digging
and placed my body and soul under the veil of a luminous darkness
in the close vicinity of eternal care.
this is the place which i have had always thought of most the time but the least that i could have known ever of it.
dreams and myths are pure fantasies
and i kept on brooding over in a ceaseless way;
the world is a thirst with no
perfect match
and we go on thirsting,
there must have been a suitable place for a suitable soul,
the rest is a mystery
unknown and unexplained.
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Submitted by Quaid-Uz-Zaman on January 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGHAIJK |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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