Colony Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

The thatched hut and small plot of land
where soil is rare but rocky strata more
Still the poor have their own little farm
Beautifully nurtured the green vegetables
Different varieties but numbers limited
Still it is sufficient for their own use

Both of the people husband and wife
goes to their daily labor in the nearby farm
The children goes to school and studies well
A model of that housing colony nowadays.

They don't know organic farming solutions
But they use cow dung and green leaves manure
That gets them enough to their needs
Arrests the pests with traditional mode

The cows they get milk for the needs
Actually the rare variety of medicinal ones
no case of plastic case full of milk
They can't imagine such a milk and admit it

In the nearby there is a community tank
where water is abundant and fishes are grown
The families gives enough food for fishes
In the natural way by using oil cakes and others
They opts for fishing the grown up ones
once in a while and arranged in such a way
Every family gets a little share from the catch

The people have made a earthen bund for harvesting
The rain water they expects in the monsoons
The large man made pond keeps drops of water
which is sufficient to their outside needs

The only thing they lacks is the electricity
For which they use solar lights for light
When an economic boom comes to the colony
They expect a more comfortable life in future.