A Portrait
Every color has walked out of it,
black and white now it is.
Hanging on a colorful wall over there,
creating strange and mysterious atmosphere.
Flashes born out of it inventing a time machine
pushing and forcing me to peep in.
Peep in through the window of past
where lot of moments seem to last.
It's a portrait with a layer of grime,
appearing as a book of epitaph at this time.
Life is seriously hysterical,
simplified but still looks mystical,
when an object shows how to be alive
and brakes teach how to drive;
when black represents the color of white
and death depicts the glory of life,
when violence recognizes the depth of peace
and stupidity defines what seriousness is.
How ironical life appears here!
when a still portrait moved me somewhere.
About this poem
Irony of life is expressed in the poem.
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Written on November 18, 2022
Submitted by rawatpriyanshi623 on November 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X A B X X X C C D D E E F F X X X A X B |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 168 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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