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.
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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,019 |
Words | 206 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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