On the gantry the red pigeon bead eye flashes. We halt.
An urban caterpillar, suddenly, pinched, picked,
still alive cars, scooters, bus, wriggling wangling,
caught in its hungry gray beak.
The wheels of the car ahead stop, an owl screeching scratching,
on the hot tar road, clinging, clawing,
a honk behind catches cold, coughing, cuffing.
And the rushing ambulance‘s beacon is wailing, warning,
death doesn’t seem to have time to wait for anyone.
Time puts an impatient foot on the cycle pedal, pausing, puffing.
I tune in the FM radio, a voice is jingling jangling
a song on packaged tour mountains and photogenic snow.
Then a stiff knuckle on my window, tapping, trying,
a pleading dirt speckled face and a beggar baby crying, cooing.
I wind down further, the glass of compassion
to hear her desert hunger screaming, shocking,
shattering the silence with which the pink bougainvilleas
on the dividers were growing, grinning,
at my tool room scowls, in this deafening machine world.
Copyright ©: Minal Sarosh
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Стефан Малларме – Гробница Эдгара По
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
- Алексей Толстой – Ты жертва жизненных тревог
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Москва майская
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Coconut by Paul Hostovsky
- Meeting and Passing by Robert Frost
- Before you go a little way prospecting by T. Wignesan
- Epistle to Colonel de Peyster by Robert Burns
- Blemishes by Satish Verma
- Contradictions poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Carol of Words. by Walt Whitman
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).