THE SMILE SAYS IT ALL
I have an image in a deep recess of my mind,
that of a photograph of a frail elderly man ,
published in the newspaper ,
he is to his neck level waddling through flood water.
He is carrying a dalipilated sewing machine on one shoulder,
with a big beaming smile on his face,
as if saying quietly that, despite losing
in the flood everything ,
he had managed to save his precious sewing machine ,
and the smile on his face ,
saying he can still try to stitch up his life with that embrace,
that’s the smile on his face,
I will always remember with grace.
About this poem
Nature and ravages, suffering of humans and animals, salvage, acceptance, survival
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Submitted by badal.pal on August 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9 |
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