Alankar(Decor)-228 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Their Hearty Love (Mandakranta)

Mandakranta (lady slowly approaching) is referred to as a 'slow stepper'
This Sanskrit stanzaic form is often a poem of love and spirituality.

The defining features of the Mandakranta are:
stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
metric, all lines strictly carry the same heavy and light metric pattern
which is established by the first line (this is language specific) .

In English, it is easier to simply consider the verse syllabic,17 syllables per line.
unrhymed and composed with caesura, which appears twice, once after the 4th syllable
and again after the 9th or 10th syllable.


Their Hearty Love (Mandakranta)

She can not walk fast...with crutches she limps... but her heart can run love-fast
Oh, he has no eyes...can not see, so sad... but his heart can feel her love
Waiting for the bus, exchanging fond words, their hearts board the ship of love
Smooth they sail they sail, with dreams for good life...wish them good luck for ever