Garbage

We embrace the craze for the garbage
Sacrificing your sometimes fragrant calls 

Shifting from paper to paper
Like skyscraper the same garbage
In every news every daily
Spillage of helpless human blood
Lumps of life in lust for lawless illness

Your dance my darling is being punctured
This is a time of black adventure
Garbage hoarded deep down there
Garbage learned and reinforced with care
Releasing through lone wolf and grenades

You offered me many a window
Even in my stuffy room in a slum
You proffered me a few pigeons
To my breast to write poems
To even your gifts I preferred garbage

And now it rules our life and world
Garbage of pent up anger and irritation
The rampaging truck on Bastille Day
Turning the whole landscape macabre
The world is at the mercy of peace robbers
Did we create it by dumping garbage
In Tigris and Euphrates decades ago 

The hyper-material world is turning garbage
Candles no more flicker at the daily carnage
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July 17, 2016
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Motaung Avatar
August 13, 2016 at 10:29 PM
A majestic poem!a fantastic gift to the world.thank you sir!
Gupta Avatar
August 14, 2016 at 2:11 AM
Thank you ...
Warrior Avatar
July 23, 2016 at 8:01 AM
Congrats! on win Probir...great work...god bless...^WW^
Gupta Avatar
July 23, 2016 at 11:33 AM
Thank you ...
Y. Avatar
July 22, 2016 at 6:22 PM
Hi Phrobir, I enjoyed your take on the theme. Good content and great use of metaphors. Congrats on your win . It was well deserved:-) Alexis
Gupta Avatar
July 23, 2016 at 1:45 AM
Thank you Alexis ....
Trifiatis Avatar
July 17, 2016 at 7:37 AM
Our world and our souls have become dumping places for garbage thus turning us into a lawless confused and indifferent society! A profound poem my friend, Probir! Good luck!
Gupta Avatar
July 17, 2016 at 10:13 AM
Thank you ...
Andresen Avatar
July 17, 2016 at 6:39 AM
- A wonderful description of the day image of garbage, Probir - Unnecessary blood flow .... bring death to innocent people - Good luck in the contest - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
Gupta Avatar
July 17, 2016 at 10:14 AM
Thank you Anne ...
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