PLEASE PLANT MORE TREES
Please,
do plant more and more trees
For
the more cool and pure breeze
For
the Nature’s more efficient fridge
For
the timely rain water - the Elysian nectar
For
the improvement in the current matter
For
the Earth to relish, rejoice and glitter!
Please,
do plant more and more trees
To
build a green and verdant bridge
Between
the Earth and the Heaven,
Oh!
The angry glare of the Sun to lessen.
To
replace the thick, festering smog
With
pearly, silvery dew, mist and fog!
Please,
do plant more and more trees
More
colours to the mundane Eden garden to add
To
watch the gambols of deer, bear and leopard
To
view the joyous dance of the flowers with glees
To
enjoy the lively feasts of the leaping, swaying fruits
To
feel the faster down-ward run of the long
glad roots!
Please,
do plant more and more trees
To
elongate the buzzing of the busy bees
The
safe levels of the huge seas to maintain
The
songs of cuckoos and nightingales to enliven
To
stop staking the Globe’s Eco-system on lease
To
block the ways of calamities that ruin and seize!
Please,
do plant more and more trees
For
the more lasting laughters of the diligent peasants
Due
to more yields of crops – a token of their due fees.
For
the sweeter twitters, chirps, croons and chants
For
the better and brighter tomorrows
With
the exile of all miseries and sorrows!
Please,
do plant more and more trees
To,
the Solar System placate and please
To
lengthen the breath of the Earth
To
re-establish respite, laughter and mirth
To
maintain the customary Nature’s cycle – a boon
To
heave a sigh of universal relief and reprieve soon.
©Shankar
D Mishra Please share this poem among your friends to enjoy the same.Thank u.
Oh Shankar how wonderful is this ink .....you so gently encourage the planting of more and more trees....you provide valid scientific and botanical reasons for doing so in your own unique poetical manner which surprises us as you cover all the reasons why more trees should be planted.....they are the lungs of the earth.....they produce the very oxygen we need for our lives.....it is nothing less than miraculous.....this process could only have originated in the mind of divinity..... And you remind us of their necessity as we partake in the earth's fragile "eco-system which we lease"....yes.....we are lessees of this bounty but we act as though they are there for the taking with no thought given to the results of deforestation done with impunity .....but the mesmerizing words of their true purpose which is to "build a green and verdant bridge between heaven and earth".....oh, that imagery is exploding with meaning....and what a connection brimming with color, food, life nesting in their branches....trees .....our sisters need protection and more more more of them to cover the empty spaces of our mother's scalp.
ReplyDeleteI am really humbled by your feedback.
DeleteI am grateful to u, revered mam for ur great comment. Do keeping encouraging like this. thank u.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great wake up call for all the sleeping minds!
ReplyDeleteTo understand the seriousness and the true intention behind this beautiful poetry and start working towards saving our priceless mother nature from the otherwise inevitable eternal darkness!
It is not just a call or a request.....
ReplyDeleteIn a gentle way in a whispering tone.....you are.... Saying how fearful the earth would be !!!
Every one likes gardens.....
Outing means seeing nature.....
In villages people speed their mats and enjoy the....breeze.....
But.......
The hams....in their possessive... tendency.....are having not one more concrete buildings....
Alas not knowing what they at losing in turn.......
But many such reminders..... may be of creating awareness....!!!
Always you are choosing a important.....social issue..... with your beautiful poetry.... Shankar
Nice , thought
ReplyDeleteNice , thought
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