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Showing posts with label minute poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minute poem. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 April 2018

Marigold: Minute Poem (Letters from the Soul #13)


A vibrant, yellow marigold
Buds in threshold
A thing of joy
And pure beauty!

Surrounded by rose and jasmine,
It keeps blooming;
Sheer ecstasy
No jealousy.

Its grace lies in simplicity
No self-pity;
Nature has room
For all to bloom.

© Purba Chakraborty 
14.04.2018

Note: This is a minute poem. The minute poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4 | 8,4,4,4| and 8,4,4,4 syllables. As the poem has 60 syllables, it is known as a minute poem. The rhyme sequence of the poem is aabb, ccdd, eeff.