Words





Did you
Graft that language into those words
that I whispered so softly into the rain?
The rain was disturbing my window panes,
that were tightly shut like my eyes.
The rain,
then went beating against the shingles
on a distant roof
that sounded like my heart
inside its ribbed cage.
And my words were beaten back
and tattooed into us
In a painless moment.

Your words
beautiful
as the sunrise and the sunset.
offered
feelings as old as history.
They flowed over frontiers
and crossed the horizons
to reach me
as incandescent dunes
of sand and snow
blown and shaped by a mirthless breeze
that stole through
the cracks in the willing window panes
to tattoo into me
 in painless moments .

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Submitted on July 21, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDXCXXXXXXX BXXXEXXEXXXADEX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 657
Words 122
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 15

Dr Shruti Das

Dr Shruti Das is Associate professor in the P.G. Department of English in Berhampur University in Odisha, India. She is a translator, creative writer and a critic, writing bilingually in English and her native tongue Odia, published widely. She has participated in many National and International Seminars on English language, literature and Communication skills inside India and abroad. She has published many research articles and creative work, and has two books: From Margin to the Centre- A Toni Morrison Reader (2009) and Contemporary Communicative English (2010) to her credit. She is a BEC Examiner for Cambridge University in their ESOL programme in India. She is currently working on a book on Global Skills and Business Communication, and on a translation from a regional classic into English. She is a public speaker of repute. Her special interests are ELT; Postmodernism; Eco-criticism; Women Studies; Critical Theory; Indian Aesthetics; Translation and Soft Skills. She loves to travel and indulges in charity. more…

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