The grieving mother.



The grieving mother.

I saw a beruffled wings bird,
on a bough of a mango tree,
in my garden after a disaster.

It was shouting shrillingly,
like a grieving mother,
with a pain of losing its dear and near.

Its nest was destroyed
and fell on ground.
Few torned feathers were very near.

The bird knew,
its dream was ruined,
for ever,ever,ever.
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Submitted by swarupbhattacharya263 on April 20, 2024

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Scheme A XXA XAB XXB XXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 343
Words 79
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 3

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  • EdwinRayTanguma
    My poor PAIN…Yeah BEJEWELme…And my son says I’m overthinking things…And he is a Swiftie and I was blind…When I told him about a certain possible shindig he called me nuts…My Theodora and Agile Swallow… 
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