Will Mama be immortal with each sonnet
That I do write with crying devotion to her?
Why not if Mona Lisa with the portrait,
And David with Renaissance marble sculpture?
And Mama's no less absolute and marvelous
Than those artistic beauties of fiction;
Say if the beauty of fact away will pass
Because the legends have not been reborn?
And I am not a legend, to agree,
To immortalize Nature's this wondrous art;
Or, instead, much like Shakespeare's Dark Lady,
If Mama'll fame my sonneteering craft.
Whate'er, my soul for Mama's longliveness longs,
Through the creation of my little songs.
-- N P Samal
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