Father in a Crowd

Villanelle Poem By Shamik Banerjee

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The interchange is confounding and loud,
Autorickshaws scuttle the rotary,
Crowd in a father, father in a crowd;

Sun-blinding towers stand pompous and proud,
Paan Shops on footways roar with janglery,
The interchange is confounding and loud;

No pother was under the village cloud,
Or straphangers uncalm and ornery,
Crowd in a father, father in a crowd;

His chest, ribbed and short-winded made him cowed
To find and rest inside an eatery,
The interchange is confounding and loud;

For this frail elder, ease is unallowed,
To his helplessness, youths throw mockery,
Crowd in a father, father in a crowd;

Unminded jaywalkers, no aid endowed,
Snarled are his feet amid this bobbery,
The interchange is confounding and loud,
Crowd in a father, father in a crowd.

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Shamik Banerjee is a poet and poetry reviewer from the North-Eastern belt of India. He loves taking long strolls and spending time with his family. His deep affection with Solitude and Poetry provides him happiness.