Dilip Chitre's The Felling Of A Banyan Tree Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dilip Chitre's The Felling Of A Banyan Tree



The tenants vacated
As per the landlord father's order,
The banyan tree which stood over
Higher than the house
Was chopped off
And it took time
In hewing and axing away
The mighty tree
Of a sturdy growth
With a bigger circumference.

The banyan tree
Standing in witness
To an age gone by,
The centuries old banyan tree
Which but the grandmother would
Have objected to its cutting,
But it was before moving out
To Bombay finally
From Baroda.

When the tree was being cut,
Sawed and hewn
By woodcutters and carpenters
He watched it in horror,
A crime it seemed to be,
A butcher, a massacre
It seemed to be
In viewing the great tree being felled
With the stroke of the axe,
Chopped off and pulled down.

Sunday, February 12, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: art
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