Fallen Heroes
They were once high up
Far fetched and unreachable
Now they lie low
As the fallen heroes.
As their knighthood ends
Cradled by the wind
With grace they fall
Until they reach the soil.
Rustling beneath my feet
To every step I take
Carpeting the ground
They leave me in wake.
The wind pays them homage
As it blows a soft hymn
Hauling the tree-shed leaves
And offering them a mud-covered entomb.
7 comments:
Interesting post Vidhya ! Simple pleasures of life ...
But some how - as usual - its confusing to me at places! there is a mix of metaphor and the real - Fallen heroes and the wind and then there is again - i am really nitpicking here - confusion of fallen heroes and falling with grace.
FAllen heroes typically is for heroes who have gone bad ! Their fall is typically not with grace !
Again I think you are talking about the actually gracefull falling movement and not the metaphor ..
Just my thoughts .. Hope i get dinner
'Fallen Heroes' is a generic term used for soldiers who lost their lives in the battlefield for their country or referring to someone who gave up their life for some good reason. So nothing bad about it.
Dinner is not ready yet. i'll do the essentials so.
The work is simply excellent and shall we say "Awesome". Good work, really.
your poems are really good ---i visited your blog after a long time and i really enjoyed reading them
good one
Fallen heroes are the legacy of Lucifer! Once loved and made by the hands of God and now licking the dust off their hands; yours was an eulogy those than rest six feet under... or sometimes in the absymal corners of human mind!
Lucifer and his men were known as Fallen Angels i guess. The work above was for dried leaves that fall from high up after they served the trees that bore them. i compared the leaves to the Fallen Heroes who gave up their lives in warfields while serving their nation.
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