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A coin gawks at a grand big note - 2

But tell my friend, you must have moved a lot. Oh sure, I’ve been in a constant journey: To a beggar for a few biscuits bought, With a child thrilled as if with a trophy, On pilgrimage, or in some wishing wells, In temples, helping with a layman’s faith, A rupee coin many a tall wall scales, In constant motion, often out of breath, And still, my life was truly well its worth As measured by how useful really is, High birth nor ever large acres of girth… The note’s eyes were nigh moistened hearing this. As I woke, thoughts took me to my childhood-- What pennies and pies could give-- thrill so good! _____________________ Sonnet | 29.07.2025 | money, journey Note: Pennies and pies: a rupee then had 64 old paisa, and each of which fetched three pies, and they all ran a long distance for me, every single pie was valued, which today even a rupee fails to fetch. Today’s paisa (all the hundred of them) is accounted for only by accountants on paper. Two-thousand rupee note no more in currency.

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