A Tale of the Crows
First in the Allegory(Fables - Parables) Poetry Contest
Some crows living in a banyan tree in a jungle
wanted to see themselves as peacocks.
They wished to dance like peacocks in the rain .
So , they wore the fallen feathers of the peacocks,
and if those were not available , their artificial feathers.
They claimed that their forefathers were peacocks ,
and named the banyan tree the " Peacock Tree ,"
discarding the earlier name given by their ancestors !
As the years rolled by, some nomadic peacocks
in various forums , both inside and outside the jungle
claimed the "Peacock Tree "and surrounding places
as their ancestral home.
They contended that , long ago ,
the crows started migrating there from other places
and identified themselves as descendants of peacocks.
As their population increased much more
than that of the peacocks over time
they ousted the peacocks from their home .
Some learned crows decried the tale presented
by the peacocks as fictitious ,stating that
the "Peacock Tree" was not the original name
of the tree they had been living under for so long.
They also refused the claim that the peacocks were
the forefathers of the crows,as had been asserted
long ago.
The claims and counterclaims were ongoing.
Copyright © Akham Nilabirdhwaja Singh | Year Posted 2018
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