Bonding! Poem by Shahzia Batool

Bonding!

Rating: 4.2


Smelling the flower
on the laden twig of a plant
is your real bonding with Nature, and
not plucking it, for
more than the top of your dinner-table,
more than your mistress' long tresses,
more than your aesthetic taste-buds,
let the buds stay on the boughs,
do not make the Nature barren
for the mere selfish satisfaction
and pleasure!

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COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Pradip Chattopadhyay 18 July 2013

a truth observed more in breach! this lovely poem is a pointer.

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Somanathan Iyer 18 July 2013

Flowers and Nature's beauty is there only to see and enjoy. nice write.

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Indira Babbellapati 18 July 2013

very sensitive, indeed...........!

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Valsa George 18 July 2013

Plucking flowers and letting them wither faster is being insensitive to the beaty of creation! Take from Nature only that which we can give back! A noble way of looking at God's creation!

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Tirupathi Chandrupatla 18 July 2013

Flowers are to be enjoyed in their natural location. Only question arises when they are grown commercially to be plucked. Nice poem with beautiful expression.

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Poet's Fan 23 July 2013

the poetess loves and gets inspired by the bond of nature's myriad agencies. she dislikes nature being brutalised, a nature-lover that she is, she echoes the great Romantics.

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Valerie Dohren 21 July 2013

I totally agree with you Shahzia - I wrote and posted a poem entitled Pray do Not Pick the Daffodils which I posted early least year. However, it has disappeared from my list and PH say they have no record of it, although I did receive comments. I intend to post it again, so you may like to read it when I do - same sentiments as your lovely poem.

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Yasmin Khan 20 July 2013

Flowers are alive and they should be treated as living things but to celebrate happy moments we use flowers to express our emotions and same flowers serve us when we mourn death and wreathes are laid on tombs. A nice write that arouses many thoughts in mind.

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Heather Wilkins 19 July 2013

a good poem, flowers are beautiful when picked they do not last long.

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David Wood 19 July 2013

I agree with you completely, never pick the flower let it grow with the plant.

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