Cost Of Food Poem by Vidi Writes

Cost Of Food

Rating: 5.0


World reels
Food shortage
A great crisis
Turns the wheel

Rich cry
Middle class eat in galore
Poor cry
Cost is more.

Green lands
Disappeared
At the cost of
Global developments

Kith and kin
Left to towns
Farmer suicides
At the cost of moneylenders.

Stocks on hoard
Food prices sore
Steel price reduced for
Construction boom.

Take over happens
Motor Car and Mobile Phone - flourish
Technology bids
Crores spent in trade.

Price index high
Inflation at rise
Global search for -
‘Consumption Index’! !

Articles written
‘Chocolate’ good for health
Companies’ relish
At the cost of a report.

Hands in mud, Sweat in head
If reported, – ‘A bonus to health’
Countrymen may take up agriculture
I am searching for a reporter! !

-vidi-
09-05-08

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
R.k Das 09 May 2008

wonderful 'food' for my thought :) so many global and regional and national problems poetically mused and precisely expressed, a poem with a message by, a truely global poet, , , :)

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Deepti Agarwal 09 May 2008

why search a reporter when u can do wonders yrself.... so many aspects touched briefly n to teh point... a wonderful write.. :)

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Gregory Collins 09 May 2008

when the foests have all been cut down when the last fish has been caught when the rivers finally dry man will then find he cannot eat his money

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rajagopal haran 09 May 2008

your poem is food for thought...wonderful analysis..keep posting..

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PERSIAN NIGHTINGALE 09 May 2008

touching social poem, thanks for sharing

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Indira Renganathan 13 March 2010

Seriously interesting with tasty words

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Chitra - 19 November 2008

a thought provoking write the toady lot get away with everything by side stepping the deserving lot

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Sulaiman Mohd Yusof 18 May 2008

this is a hunting book you got here vivi. a term used by jounalist to describe a hot news.nice write bro. i vote a 10.

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Rani Turton 16 May 2008

The poem brings out succintly the problems in the world and in the nation with determination and grit. Thanks Vidi for your social poems that many read.

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Dr.subhendu Kar 15 May 2008

Green lands Disappeared At the cost of Global developments................eco still cries by denudation, and we boast of technologies by the rise, yet it echoes by the crisis. poor becomes poorer and rich becomes richer, the travesty of truth absolute bhy the social maladies, well penned,10+, thanks for sharing

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