Earthly duties.



Earthly duties.

I saw the woman,
taking a basket on her back,
collecting two leaves and a bud,
loading the burden.

She was picking up skillfully
with her obedient fingers
as if a machine working
for executing the work dexterously.

I never saw,sun to be exhausted.
It turns its face to the otherside,
duly obeys its duty
taking on back over loaded.

With her heavy legs,
she returned home
and tried to get open,
her sleepy eyes.

She worked like puppet
which was moved by invisible fingers
as her affectionate heart was swelling,
in that small hamlet.
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Submitted by swarupbhattacharya263 on September 10, 2024

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Scheme AXBA CDEC BBCB XXAX FDEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 553
Words 116
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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