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A Vanishing Sight
From a lonely country road
I saw in the distance on my bicycle
a young couple in traditional dress
lovely, in the evening sunlight
crossing the wide
winter paddy field .
They might be returning home
from a ceremony,
a charming sight
in the setting sun.
Today, structures are coming up
over the paddy fields,
pushing nature further
and further away .
Schools,shops,
and residential buildings rise
here and there,
where paddy once thrived.
Oil pumps hum
by the once - quiet roadside.
The paddy fields are vanishing
there, day by day.
Copyright ©
Akham Nilabirdhwaja Singh
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