Tuesday 19 April 2016

Frying Eggs on the Floor

When you can cook an egg on the floor
It is not about magic or wow!
It is about the searing heat
That is sweeping across
India now!

If you see an Arabian escorted off a flight
It is not about a VIP
It is rather about Islamophobia
That has gripped America and
The white world so deep!


When you see a motorcar
At the edge of a quake cliff
It is not about Japanese driving skills
It is about the deadly scars
Left by frequent shakes and shifts.


If you meet Churchill wearing a surgical mask
It is not that he’s back and kidding
It is, but, about Greenpeace
Driving home their point
That London is polluted and not breathing!

When politicians like Trump
Talk of increasing the divide
And the world media says
More terrorist attacks are 
A matter of when, not, if!

Humanity is aggrieved!

6 comments:

  1. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”- Robert Frost
    The global emotion has found its needed thought and the thought has found the right man with right words. I got a sense of true-life reading, piercing feeling and a picture painted on the wall. More than a piece of a short poem, it is- the truest reflection of vicissitudes navigating the real pictures of what we see and passing through each day.
    Your short poem is- A vast volume of a book!!!!

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    1. Your comments on my poem are highly poetic, so to say. Thanks for reading and liking it.

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  2. Wonderful thoughts mama..well put together 😊

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  3. And when a Bhutanese facebooker raises voice about some "premium" individuals jumping the queue without guilt, it speaks about the rising awareness about civic sense in our country.

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    1. Indeed, Binai. Thanks for adding one more line ;)

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