Balakot
Houses here.
Shops selling pencils, copies, books and sweets there.
An ironmonger, a shop of house-things
And bread, oil and lentils
And tea packets strung like pennants here.
And my school there.
A road from here
Over the bridge, over the icy river
To the forest and mountains there.
There was all this. And people.
The bazaar is gone.
The houses, roads, bridges, many people, my school, gone.
My friends' voices gone
Under the rubble lied their bodies.
Some found. Twisted. Dust covering them like shroud.
Others they searched.
With iron rods and pick-axes and spades
Bare hands. Searched day after long day
Among the debris and books and open satchels
For one, any one, who may still be there.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDABAEBFGGGHIJKLCB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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