DELIVERANCE
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Posted by subhajit ghosh
on March 27, 2003 (Thursday)
a real-life situation...
As the town grew into a city
Precious water became a scarce commodity
Where there was an uninterrupted flow
Things crawled to an excruciatingly slow
As the woes of the people continued to mount
One began to lose count
Number of days it's on discount
While administration maintains a silence
Conjectures surface
Tolerance
Acts as a saving grace
Never mind whoever's disgraced
Plumber makes hay while the sun shines
A chorus of disgruntled voices whines
Sad tale from a wonderful place
Corruption has laced
Where rarity was unseen in any form
Gradually fast becoming the norm
Prayer of hapless fall on deaf ear
How long does one have to bear?
Swelling number of people sore
Will it ever return to the halycon days of yore?
What stayed with you?
A line that lingered, a feeling, a disagreement. Great comments are as valuable as the original piece.
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avant-gardearchive~2001-2003hiii shubhajit, articulation is fine, but dont u think that prose form might b better for ur thoughts.
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subhajit ghosharchive~2001-2003hi avant garde I know I'm a terrible poet, yet dunno why I still keep trying to write verses...maybe that famous quip inspires me to some extent...if you give a typewriter to a monkey and he keeps the keyboard busy constantly maybe in a million years one would find the monkey has actually typed a sonnet worthy of Shakspearean class ;-)