One moment was enough.
Ravi Panamanna 1956 (Ottapalam)
A happily married couple
Young IT professionals
Handsome salaries
Life is an endless tweet.
A beautiful morn’
Breakfast hour
The usual chirps
Soft and casual winds
Something triggered amidst
Gales began to gather
Volcanoes sprang alive
Land-slides took place.
An emotional rupture
A moment of total eclipse
In that complete darkness
She was stabbed, now a garbage!
His hearth was still hot
It burnt his thoughts.
It was a total sweep
It was now a useless weep.
He was left in the lurch
He bid farewell to all springs.
Suicide and no more-
He grabbed a length of rope.
But death spared him for a moment
Broken rope left him tormented.
He was at his wits' end
The claws of death were but firm.
And a jump from the thirteenth floor-
The galore of life came to an end.
That was indeed pageantry
Too short, emotional and self-destructive
One moment was enough-
Life was completely gone.
Beware of the deep lurking snakes,
One bite can vaporize life.
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About this poem
Outwardly we may appear to be very calm, cool, and collected, but, in a single given moment, the devil in us may play havoc. Read the following based on a report. In the modern world where surging emotions dictate our lives, this poem is very relevant and must be an eye-opener for us all.
Written on September 24, 2013
Submitted by ravi_panamanna on December 15, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XBXX XBXX BXXX XXCC XXDX XXEX DEXX XXXXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 978 |
Words | 189 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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