A soldier has two mothers

Basudev Karmakar 1974 (West Bengal , India)



 A soldier has two mothers

His flood-haunted tiny village,
Gaily and blissful, no trace,
Ribs and its bones all for badge,
Was traced Jutting out; no race.

The few mites escaped the night
Excluded his kind siblings and begetters;
He left his garrison with much fright,
Traced none of his own poor settlers.

He settled himself to far seashore,
The woe-betides and loneliest was he,
The sea-roar chagrined up his beaten core.
All the nights he would sweat and die by the sea.

The memory of the children all gaily-clad,
In a ceremony or a festival,
How they all went mad,
Was the only source of his little enthrall.

The year ran and in the dead of a night,
He built his village of the sea sand;
He put all the mellow inmates inside,
Imagined the community perished in band.

He saw the sea engulfing it with a savage roar,
They could barely screamed or had a groan,
All torn and beaten in wound and sore,
His parents’ hands groped for their nation’s son.
                                        Basudev Karmakar

About this poem

A soldier's village is engulfed by the river. He hears the news and comes back. He finds none of his kith and kin including his family. He settles to a sea side. One night he makes sand -village. The sea engulfs the village. He hears the clear call of his parents.

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Written on February 04, 2023

Submitted by karmakar.basudev on February 04, 2023

Modified by karmakar.basudev on February 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A XBXB CACA DEDE FGFG CHXH DXDXD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,019
Words 206
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

Basudev Karmakar

Lives in Kolkata. Graduated from Malda, west Bengal...persuaded MA from Kolkata, West Bengal. more…

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