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Jul 10, 2010
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Time-elephant
Nature always make inscrutable decrees,
No inkling of sense or nonsense, impartial.
Tsunami, earthquake, storm, inundation,
Indurate incurable endemic. All suffer.
Man, a mahout. Time-elephant get goaded,
Managed, suppressed, depressed and oppressed.
Minacious wildness wants a win, he tried.
Vainly the time-elephant moved. Trumpeted.
Mahouts unconcerned commands cowed him down.
Mately look followed. Tears began to flow.
The fierce blade pierced its thick skin. Terrible.
Man, you made Nature survile, you exploit kindness.
Your ingratitude goes hand-in-hand with your fate.
You cannot bridle elephant-Nature for ever and ever.
You cannot challenge time, you cruel man, beware!
You polluter, contaminator of air and water
You seeker of cosy life, ignoring future.
You costermonger selling poisonous fruits,
You restaurnt-man, seller of dirty food,
You disfigure the ever green, ever beautiful,
The midges should ever live, the elephants too.
Upon God, I assure, man is thevilest of all
And the end of man is an invited calamity.
Rough is the begot, tough methods he adopt
Save the time-elephand to prolong your life.
No inkling of sense or nonsense, impartial.
Tsunami, earthquake, storm, inundation,
Indurate incurable endemic. All suffer.
Man, a mahout. Time-elephant get goaded,
Managed, suppressed, depressed and oppressed.
Minacious wildness wants a win, he tried.
Vainly the time-elephant moved. Trumpeted.
Mahouts unconcerned commands cowed him down.
Mately look followed. Tears began to flow.
The fierce blade pierced its thick skin. Terrible.
Man, you made Nature survile, you exploit kindness.
Your ingratitude goes hand-in-hand with your fate.
You cannot bridle elephant-Nature for ever and ever.
You cannot challenge time, you cruel man, beware!
You polluter, contaminator of air and water
You seeker of cosy life, ignoring future.
You costermonger selling poisonous fruits,
You restaurnt-man, seller of dirty food,
You disfigure the ever green, ever beautiful,
The midges should ever live, the elephants too.
Upon God, I assure, man is thevilest of all
And the end of man is an invited calamity.
Rough is the begot, tough methods he adopt
Save the time-elephand to prolong your life.
— U K Atiyodi, Jul 10, 2010
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Mari Shine
16 years ago
This poem is a superb inking
U K Atiyodi
16 years ago
Thank you Marishine Please
Mari Shine
16 years ago
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