An Elegy On The Death Of A Loved One

Hey guys! Welcome back to Vatsala Shukla's blogs. And today I am back again with a new self composed poem of mine in which I have tried another form of poetry i.e Elegy.

In this form of poetry the poet expresess grief or sadness over a miserable incident like death in a poetic language.

So here I have described an imaginative incident where a sailor dies for sadness of the death of his dog which his mother gave to him on his birthday.

So here is the poem.

Hope you all like it 🙂

Once there lived a sailor

Who loved his pet, a dog,

He sailed along with his dog and crew

To export furniture and log.

The dog was the man's childhood friend

Which to him his mother gave,

The dog was his mother's only sign

Whom he always tried to save.

Once on a journey

His ship was caught,

In a sea storm

Which the rain had brought.

Soon the storm was over

But the ship lost its route,

The ship wandered in the unknown sea

And started lacking food.

Soon the food was over

And the crew on board was starving,

They neither could drink the sea water

Nor any food they could bring.

They didn't even have their fishing ropes

As it got lost in the storm,

At night the deck was freezing cold

As there was no dry wood to keep them warm.

Several days had passed

But all that could be seen was fog,

The crew lost its patience

And ate up the innocent dog.

When the sailor saw his dog

Being eaten up by the people,

He fell on his knees and started crying

And shot himself with a pistol.

Soon after that incident

The crew saw the land,

They were shocked to know that that was the place

From where their journey they started.

Everyone payed tribute

To the love of the dog and man,

The crew mourned and felt guilty

For their work which they had done.

So that was all about my poem.

I tried an elegy for the first time and I really hope that you would have liked it.

Please tell me in the comment section how it was.

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