A Jungle Home Poem by Narayanan Ramakrishnan

A Jungle Home

Rating: 5.0


Returning home, in the evening, bit late
Sipping a cup of coffee, piping hot, in no haste,
Remunating of the ruins of the day, heart cannot but paste,
I sipped dropp by drop, nourishing in full, its taste.

A mosquito zipped past in search of blood,
Rounded my ears musing for its food,
Irritated, waved my hands both and dropped it dead;
No remorse in me, as the life in it, to me is, but, dud.

Then I looked up and saw a lizard screwing it tail
To gobble up a moth that stood, ready to fail,
A grasshopper, too, on its wings and another liz on its trail;
This one had a saviour in my wife, and the hunter stood pale.

Daughter rushed out, yelling, cockroach in her room,
Silly thing after all, I killed it with a broom.
Then I saw my pet cat after a rat, for that only I groom,
To kill and banish and make our life, all bloom.

Butterflies too visit us, so too insects too many, on any day,
Gadgets and repellants we have, to keep them at bay,
We too share our house with ants, spider and a dog astray,
For all, we have our own means to drive them away.

Our house is but a jungle of lives many,
But where only jungle law unfolds over all insects, tiny
Selfihness embodied are we, so for our comfort we kill, creatures, any
That put spokes on our wheels, uncanny.

(Charity begins at home and also ruthlessness.)

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kee Thampi 28 December 2011

This poet know to make a real dune Daughter rushed out, yelling, cockroach in her room, Silly thing after all, I killed it with a broom. Then I saw my pet cat after a rat, for that only I groom, To kill and banish and make our life, all bloom. very realistic

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Ken E Hall 31 March 2011

Humour in the jungle home with critters crawling and everything knows its place good poem with lines to dicuss cheers regards

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Santosh Sharma 02 March 2011

A nice expression, all creation is integradted let we love and give right them to live.

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Jenny Gordon 28 February 2011

Fascinating, rather humorous contemplation. Your conclusion reminds me of a friend who tenderheartedly treats all, with no exception for even the vile mosquitoes...yet I think they are only pests for man's torment, and do not deserve such kindness. Some insects indeed are very admirable and helpful, but mosquitoes? I quite enjoyed this contemplation...the scenes it created and the amusing discussion. Lovely.

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Saju Abraham 26 February 2011

Serious as the subject you deal with here, the medium you have used are everyday things that are part of most of our lives. Very beautifully penned. It's 10 from me.

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