A Silent Witness
In this graveyard
Where ceases not fire,
Where ceases not lamentations,
I am for eons a silent witness.
Lone I stand on these rolling slopes,
Green fields lie beyond the silent road.
A distant whistle is heard
And I know the last train is also gone.
To so many parting moments
I am an emotional witness.
To every curling smoke
I bid a silent adieu.
Under my cool shades
Meet the forefathers of this hamlet.
And they whisper through my foliage
Unto the perching birds and passing wind.
No cry shakes my roots,
No howling wind wakes the dead.
Beyond the din of the world
All are equal under my sprawling shades.
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About this poem
In this poem, a tree with sprawling shades in a graveyard is the silent witness. 'No cry shakes my roots, No howling wind wakes the dead. Beyond the din of the world All are equal under my sprawling shades'.
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Written on April 17, 2009
Submitted by ravi_panamanna on December 23, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 130 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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