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O Singer of a chequered history, 
Of brazen battlefields bleak, desolate, 
Of life and liberties and tales hoary, 
O of Song Celestial, ageless glory. 

Thou hast outlived thy epochal story,    
With dead heroes surviving still in state, 
Frustrated for what happened, scarce sorry, 
O Singer of legends of history. 

One brother’s dharma and one’s archery, 
One’s brute power, someone’s oath and bravery 
That can’t be confined to an ancient date, 
O thou that sang legends’ ageless glory. 

Ye O bard two roles in one well carry: 
Poet laureate, progenitor of fate, 
Born of moment’s passion on boat-ferry, 
O Singer of epic war’s history. 

Ye sang thy song in such a swell flurry, 
Even God of Letters so adequate 
Had oft to ponder feeling nigh weary, 
O Bard of an ancient ageless glory. 

For mortal pens a task was it dreary— 
To understand it well before pen it, 
O Singer of a chequered history, 
O Singer of ancient ageless glory. 
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Vyasa is the creator and one of the key characters of Mahabharata, world’s longest epic of hundred thousand verses (each a quatrain). While doing translation of this epic based on some 2000 verses in three volumes, I was fascinated by this character. This Villanelle addressed to him uses stanzas of four lines instead of the usual three. 

Villanelle | 07.03.2022 |

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