Atlantis Poem by Priya K.
Atlantis
The land is dead and gone, Lady.
It's as though it never lived.
It's dead and gone, Lady.
And now you must forgive.
Life moves on, Lady.
And so too must you;
Forgive yourself, dear Lady,
For there was naught that you could do.
Indeed I know that, Sir,
I do, believe me true;
I would not seek to hate me, Sir,
But to love Atlantis, too.
But one thing I shall never hear,
From you or yet another.
Atlantis lived, and died, it's clear,
But it died in honour.
Nor you, nor yet a friend, my Lord,
Shall say my home's forgot;
If you'll deny your roots, my Lord,
There are others who will not.
There are others too that die, Sir,
You too will one day pass –
But let none say you never were,
You never shared a laugh;
For in that day, most noble Lord,
It will be true, you'll be lost,
And the years you'd lived on earth, my Lord,
Will be gone, by all forgot.
amazing! ..thrs no other wrd i cn think of -there are many feelings behind the curtian which u hav tried to tell with a gud use of characters-i appreciate the thought flow.! gud one MSC
heavy :) deep and nice one. I like the character of Miss in the poem (strong and patient) also the style of expression is nice. :) and so too must you nice
wow! ! ..now the poem is amazing...nd it reminds of the scene in 2012 where the president decides to stay wit the people..ur usage of words is simple nd apt.. u have used NAUGHT instead of NOTHING...that gives it a poetic touch..most of al, I loved the last stanza of the poem.! ! ! .
Hey Shyam, Basically Atlantis is like a parallel poem to a book I've written by the same name which hasn't been published yet. I think of this as the Queen of Atlantis speaking about her country as it sinks into the sea.. according to the legend there was a huge earthquake/volcano which triggered a tsunami around the end of the last ice age, and the combination destroyed the land of Atlantis. In my book, the people know about this in advance, & they plan to evacuate. But the Queen says that she wants to stay on and die with her land, because she loves it so much. One of her advisors tells her she should save herself, because however much she loves the land, it's dead while her people are still living, and she has a duty to them. That's the conversation in this poem, between the Queen and her advisor. The philosophical undercurrent is that nothing is completely dead and gone as long as the memory remains. Hope I cleared it up :) Thanks for asking! :) Thanks a lot for saying all those nice things! :) Priya.
hey, By reading others comments on this, I guess this poem is superb..but seriously i was not able to make the meaning of it..ur proving ur a pacca literature student..if u find some time, pls explain me the meaning of the poem in brief..tamila sonna nalladu: -) : -) .. .pls read ma poems too and comment on them..KEEP GOING...ur nowhere far from becoming a GR8 poetess. coz gr8 poets write in such a way that a common man like me cud not understand..just kidding, .: -) . regards, shyam.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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