to sprint is human
to galumph divine
it earns me sympathy
as I get left behind
victory beyond goalposts
winks at my strategy
epiphany strikes
I write my own elegy
Slow
to sprint is human
to galumph divine
it earns me sympathy
as I get left behind
victory beyond goalposts
winks at my strategy
epiphany strikes
I write my own elegy
Reena Saxena 
This made me smile. Excellent take 🙂
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Glad you liked it, Jacqueline!
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Namaste Reena 🙂
An excellent set of lines cut with precision: deep, meaningful, intimate.
May I ask: is this what is known as an elegiac coupling?
Fascinated as I am by word meanings I took a moment to look-up ‘galumph’ and was most delighted to discover it was a word coined by Lewis Carroll: probably a blend of gallop and triumph! 🙂
Happy penning Reena. Namaste 🙂
DN
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Thank you, Dewin!
I checked up ‘elegiac couplets’. It comes close to the ghazal format in Urdu poetry. But I have not consciously used it here, as I learnt about it just now.
Namastey!
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Namaste Reena 🙂
A pleasure, thank you for your poem.
I’ve only ever seen one or two examples myself but knowing you write in several different styles, I thought I’d enquire. Thank you for your answer…now I have to go away and gen up a little on ‘ghazal’ form! That’s why you’re the trainer and I merely the scribe lol 😉
Blessings. Namaste 🙂
DN
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🙂
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Excellent piece, Reena! I especially love your last stanza. Thank you for joining in.
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Thanks 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Reblogged this on BrewNSpew and commented:
Reena’s take on the word galumph, while at the cafe.
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