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The Piano Waits

Subrata Ray



In lonely bed,
 In wretched shade,
 The piano waits.
In Temple and Church,
 The piano wills a merge,
 With some One's touch.
The piano longs for,
 The stirring of its dumb,
 With a mystic chemistry.
The piano invites,
 A bee for flower,
 A rain for drought.
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Submitted on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKL
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 246
Words 46
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
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Subrata Ray

Ray subrata or Subrata Ray hails from the royal family of Nator ,-now Bangladesh . He is Headmaster of a Govt recognized 12-grade school in West Bengal ,-India ,-Moula Netagi Vidyalaya . He is double M.A English ,-literature and language . Poet ray is a global poet with about 1400 poems in the prestigious American poems ,-poetry site , Poem hunter , and Face Book . Poet ray is an eminent critic on Shakespeare , Osborne , Wordsworth , Shelly , Coolidge , Keats , Elliot , and many other poets and dramatists . Ray is a published author on History of English literature and language , English Grammar and language .He has published poetry books ,-on Love poems , Mystic poems , etc . more…

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