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Nature Unnatural
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Nature! You have lost your nature
Why sitting half-naked under the streetlight
Muttering in tear-soaked aspirated voice?
Isn't it Man who stripped off your green attire?
Alas! Wordsworth is now fast asleep
Under the grave in Westminster Abbey
The green ink long finished, the comforting hand long vanished...
Do not bemoan, look around and see
How man has replaced Nature with nature
Look at the concrete trees vying to scrape the sky,
And bats dangling upside down
Not on branches but on electric wires,
The artificial fountains and rooftop gardens,
And the bird sanctuary near the dustbin,
Return back Nature, look back no more
You are unwanted, you are an anathema here
Shed no tears poor soul, sigh not for eclogues
You will drown yourself in flood, not the city at all.
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( This poem is contributed by Nasim M. Sarkar, Tezpur University )
email-- nasim_email@yahoo.co.in
location: Assam, India
