Dream
Ram Krishna Singh 1950 (Varanasi)
I watch the past crushed
and fake saints rising to reign
exalt cunningness
envision deceit to prosper
a ram rigs the folk
with iron teeth and speaking horns
from the Ganga's bank
immigrant hope and waiting
pushes west-, north-, east-
and southward for net-breaking
new resurrection
beyond the brimming nowhere
I hear the dead dying
angels groaning in the trees
my unscarred body
feels the hand that's blade and guard
ends me like full-stop.
New waves of terror rise high.
the book is opened
but where is the seeing eye?
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Submitted on December 08, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XX AX XA XB XB XX BA XX XC XC |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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