Underdog: An Ushnik

Underdog: An Ushnik
©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer

Cheers are shouted for my foe
on my ears boos come and go
they believe I’ll run and flee
round one’s done, the winner’s me.

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Photo credit: Martin Kníže

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In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge: U is for Ushnik

Ushnik

Ushnik (God of Wind orignating from the hairs of the body of the almighty Prajāpati) is a stanzaic Vedic meter. The 7th horse pulling the golden chariot of the sun god is named for this meter.

The defining features of the Ushnik are:

• stanziac, any number of quatrains, 4 padas or lines.
• syllabic, lines of 7 syllable each.

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