Limerick U04 Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Limerick U04

Rating: 5.0


There lived a crow in Krakatoa
Her cacophony spelled crack-a-toa
Which everyone found
Unbearable, that sound
They banished her from Krakatoa.

Limerick U04
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Fellow poets are urged to read this poem as a Political Statement. Or at least a metaphor for it. For that matter, almost everyone of my poems is a Political Commentary. Please try reading then as such. Thank You. The government machinery, those in power, always look at the dissenting voices as cacophony, an ill-omen, inconvenient nuisance. Which, they try to subdue and silence, by whatever means! Murder of Gowri Lankesh and Kalburgi are right before our eyes.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

The cacophony of crows is unbearable. Do you know, there are no crows in Lakshadweep

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Happy to read your comments, and the information on Lakshadweep. But I would like the poem to be read as a Political Sa

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I would like the poem to be read as a Political Statement.

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My fourth attempt at Limerick

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The pain of being shoved aside, as Adrian writes, is real!

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While reading the poem as a Political Commentary,

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you may ask what "crack-a-toa" is doing in the second line. The word is actually "Tao". Changed subtly to rhyme. A play on the word. The singular voices urging to "crack at Tao" are cacophony for the ruling elite. The rest follows.

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Dear Poet Adrian Antique, you have touched the very point I wanted the poem to be. To me, this poem (almost everyone of my poems) is a Political Statement. It touches my heart that you could relate this poem to your personal experience.

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My poem The Insane is placed among the best 100

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Oh, I had not noticed. Congratulations. That is a well deserved recognition. Of which you could be proud of. All the best, dear poet.

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Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

PUTHENCHIRA, KERALA, INDIA
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