Struggle - a Poem

Struggle 

By Mahbubul Karim (Sohel)

December 13, 2012

A night bellows the gale and shivers bone

From moonlight comes the flood of hail alone

Streets and river have merged like brothers sing

Where ocean roars behind the trees’ hovering

That time waves crashed huts and palace in strokes

There went a boy alone clutching straw boats

He looked and saw a man with smile in eyes

That boy begged and screamed with the waning cries

The man of smile just took his eyes away

The drowning boy struggled in watery clay

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Note: I have tried to write this poem using iambic pentameter. You can find more info on this type of metering in following location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter

I did not find it easy, but the process of writing and thinking in measured lines in stressed and unstressed beat is refreshing. Maybe the next one will be better.

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