Accepted



I am accepted,
 I am rejected,
 I am delighted,
I  am dejected.

The same I is short listed,
 The same i is declined.

 The night grows older,
 The door of acceptance closes.
 I sat on the foot path dejected.
 One window opens a jar,
 A torch light falls on me.

 I hide my face in shame .

A little later some soft
 Yet strong and reassuring hands
 Pulls me, as if, it is a new dawn.
 Exactly so!
It was my searching mother !
 Her pet sniffs me and hugs me.
 My heart is cheered.

 Life has still to offer
 In the shape of roaming mothers.
 Why should one rejection
From a seeming love
 Can make me suffer!

 june 22, 2014, 9 a.m.
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Scheme AABA BX CXAXD X XXXXCDX CXXXC X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 601
Words 122
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 5, 1, 7, 5, 1

Ranjit Sinha

I am from Calcutta ,India. I did Masters and Ph.D. in Physics from Calutta University. I then worked as a research scientist and a teaching professor, as well. I retired in 2005 from the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health at Calcutta when a senior professor. i started writing poems in my mother tongue[ BENGALI]SINCE MY BOYHOOD ABOUT 13. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL IN INDIA is famous for RABINDRA NATH TAGORE, A NOBEL LAUREATE IN LITERATURE,SIR C V RAMAN, A NOBEL WINNER IN PHYSICS ,GREAT MOTHER TERESA , NOBEL WINNER FOR PEACE. AMARTA SEN, NOBEL WINNER ON ECONOMICS AND SO ON. I HAVE TWO CHIDREN ONE DAUGHER AND ONE SON BOTH ARE IN US , SON-IN-LAW ALSO IN US AND THE SWEETEST GRAND DAUGHTER OUT Of MY DAUGHTER, A US CITIZEN BY BIRTH .MY WIFE, NANDITA, IS ALSO MASTERS IN ENLISH LITERATURE,WAS A SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER. i have my root in a village. i am profoundly influenced by tagore,teresa and two bose physicists [jagadidish and satyen bose]. i am a central govt. pensoner. my pastime is poetry and flower garden .i have read the great epic of the hindu ,MAHABHARATA AND MY MANY POETIC CHARACTERS ARE FROM THIS TREATISE. TO EDUCATED INDIANS ENGLISH IS THE FIRST LANGUAGE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. WE LOVE TO SPEAK,WRITE AND DREAM IN ENGLISH, BESIDES THE MOTHER TONGUE. my poems are on nature, man and society more…

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