Three Vignettes



(1)
The lumberman slumbers
Leaning against the half hewed tree
Smell of wounded raw wood
Pervades all through his dream.
Branches spread a shaddy lap
Leafy branchlets fan
The fatigued midday nap.

(2)
The air consented
to donate its organ
Breaths being bought and sold
Philanthropes filter oxygen.

(3)
Sweat, saliva and soil
Mixed and massed together
The self-engrosed white ant
Polishes dreams
Into celestial spire.
Once the wings come
Only ant-hill of darkness
left alone.

About this poem

The poem consists of three parts. There are three scenes in the poem irronically depicting three characters.

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Submitted by kishorepanigrahi30 on December 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXXXCXC AXDXD AXXXBXXBX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 482
Words 88
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 9

Kishore Panigrahi

A well known young poet and translater from Orissa, mostly writing in Odia. Four collections of poetry, two translations, one criticism and an academic book of communicative English have been published till date. He is is now working as a lecturer in English in a Degree College in Odisha more…

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