Wobbly! Feebly Man Gobbles Nature (A Satire) Poem by Harindhar Reddy

Wobbly! Feebly Man Gobbles Nature (A Satire)

Rating: 4.8


Living in a pigeonhole, human mind is crammed;
Surviving in a cubbyhole, human heart is jammed;
Pigging in a rabbit-hole, Human ideas are burned down;
inhabiting in a cavern-hole, human soul is whittled down;
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

Man is corroding fishes and collapsing fisheries,
Man is foundering forests; trees are dropping like flies,
Man is converting grass lands in barren grounds,
Man is transforming Croplands in buildings four,
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

Hello! Hello! One side nature is being exploited,
Shallow fellow! Another side nature has been polluted,
Swallow! Swallow! Forest, - power house of evolution,
It's under extinction, ye, a degraded devil with no ration,
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

Ozone protects earth from ultra violet rays and death,
Yet by polluting, it is being depleted by human wrath,
For his survival, ready to butcher 300 million species rare,
Man is clobbering biological systems four,
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

Thud! Thud! Thud! A cut, the human axe clatters!
Stop! Stop! Stop! A bark of a tree is bleeding with rhymes,
Wo! Wo! Wo! Man is butchering me without mercy, nature chatters,
Oh Bumbler, oh fumbler, Oh Slaughterer, tree is calling names!
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

Why are you rushing with 3 shifts?
Why don't you enjoy nature's gifts?
Why are you treading in the path which leads nowhere?
Calm down with a natural smile otherwise, hear somewhere!
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

Mate! Wallow in the beauty of the universe, thence
Relax and slow down a bit; maintain ecological balance
Fellow! Listen to the music of wind and be wise
Pal! Feel musky aroma of flowers; otherwise
Gloom-gloom, bloom-bloom, Humankind meets its doom!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ekaterina M. Polischuk 10 March 2012

wow.... great poem with deep strong meaning. We live in our world among our problems and sometimes we don`t care about the nature.We destroy our lives and everything around us but don`t notice the importance of the environment... Your poem has sad notes from the viewer... but it`s wonderful due to its useful content, due to your powerful words and open heart. BRAVO! you did a great work. i like your poem very much.

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

Thank you very much for the amazing review on the poem 🙏🙏👍👍

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Allemagne Roßmann 09 October 2011

Very worthy and true piece to read of yours.Nature gave the trees and shrubs.Nature is god.We live in it and appreciate it as gift of God.Then came primary consumers-deers and rabbits and cows and goats.God thought it must be checked to balance and preserve the beauty.Then came lions and tigers and crocodiles.They lived on meat and thought themselves demigod of jungle land and water.God send more bigger animals like elephants to control them or make them frightened.Elephants more than consumption paraded around paddy fields and destroyed the food for humans.Humans categorised them as they categorise themselves as whites and blacks and browns and then economic disparities and championing the cause of aryan race as apocalypse with the wrong assumptions of biblical theories.Then came muslims who thinks jihad is killing non-muslims like krishna in mahabharata s lord advised arjuna to kill even brothers or get killed either for heavenly abode nobody has ever seen or narrated.And now is the problem of zionists, muslims and christs together in one abrahamic consequence of a religion which got divided with time and misinterpreted with false and apocryphal prophetisms.Like in India-all the gurus who sprouted up and hypnotized the rich for instance is Rajneesh at one time influencing the film industry with philosophical ideas.And then the bandwagon of an enemy called selection criterias within-caste system and religion amalgamated which led to the problem of now Telengana issues in Andhra Pradesh and therefore human displacements called terrorism.I cannot solve it.When i want, as once i wanted in India, life wanted or was prone to be absolved being disdained with hopes.So is better people fly their own kites and abscond this world life`s uncertain way.Nobody has ever won against destiny`s uncertainty and nor as annals say God.Nice read..well written

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

Such marvellous commentary taking breath out of me my friend 💐💐

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