Rondeaux*
We Two of Us
We two of us in the wood
In wind swept winter’s pensive mood
Craving warmth we lie unhidden,
We long for moments forbidden
For loves that winter’s chill withstood.
We two are benches made of wood,
Once with pride in the park we stood,
Today we are left, forsaken—
We two of us.
In this winter, we cry aloud;
Oh! Sweet spring hail the lovers-good;
Let them sit on our warm wooden
Lap; let’s attend to their desires then,
Ensconced in nature, far from crowd—
We two of us.
*Rondeaux—(Rondeau):
A French form containing fifteen lines and consisting of
three stanzas—a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet, in that
order, rhyming aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines nine and fifteen
are short, a refrain consisting of the first phrase of
the first line; thus, they are shorter than all the rest of
the lines of the poem, which are all of the same length (Lewis
Turco. The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Third
Edition. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
2000. p. 239).
Read Amitava
Chakrabarty's haiku in the
"winter solstice" Thread
About
Amitava Chakrabarty, IN
Amitava Chakrabarty is a
class I Marine Officer of Kolkata Port Trust by profession and
a writer, journalist and poet by passion. As a freelance
journalist, he has contributed several reports in
Hindustan Times. The Statesman has
published his letters/ articles/ stories and poems in its
respective columns. His poems were published in Times of
India and Asian Age. He is regularly
published in numerous journals, e-magazines and anthologies in
India and abroad. He is an Honorary Life member of Metverse
Muse and a member of World Poets' Society, Greece. His first
anthology of poems, entitled Solitude, has
received favourable review in the domain of poetry.
This is Amitava Chakrabarty's
first appearance in Sketchbook.
