Samaritans Poems

STREET CHILDREN

Who are those kids half nude and unclean!
To whom were they born? How and when?
...

When amatory poets sing their loves
In liquid lines mellifluously bland,
And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,
They little think what mischief is in hand;
...

How kind the good Samaritan
To him who fell among the thieves!
Thus Jesus pities fallen man,
And heals the wounds the soul receives.
...

God Almighty
We praise your heavenly Name
Come to our hearts
And cleanse all our inequities
...

CHAPTER I

I cannot blame old Israel yet,
For I am not a sage—
I shall not know until I get
...

He relied on his sense of touch
Without having to say much
Randy was a young blind child
Brought up almost in the wild
...

Confined he was to the greenwood tree
Sky was the roof of his home rent free
To move about was not his spree
Quest for moving yearning for a key!
...

Sometime back, I had read in the newspaper about the plight of a little girl in a very similar situation that I have depicted in this poem. This is what prompted me to write and share my opinion about Child Labour - a social evil prevalent even in modern times.


She
...

On a quest to climb a mountain
I staggered up a hill
I reached the top and gasped for breath
I really felt quite ill
...

It rained,
On the roofs of the oppressors and the oppressed,
Rained,
In the gardens of the righteous and the wicked,
...

Though scourged be Righteous men all life on earth,
By evil minds and devils in sequence,
Good Samaritans, Angels too have birth,
To save the Upright from chains of non-sense.
...

What happened to those
who shed many a tear
and bled for others?
...

Don't go out again tonight,
to walk the streets alone.
Don't follow train-tracks til dawn's light,
That will not lead you home.
...

BE A GOOD NEIGHBOUR, BE A GOOD SAMARITAN
Jerusalem to Jericho,
a road, too treacherous to go.
...

Two phrases of importance come to mind
We are not at fault for our genetic origin
All born from the Love of God's humankind
like a melodious passion from a violin.
...

We live in difficult times
Covid-19 disease has brought us misery
Death of loved ones is our daily breaking news
We are forced to bury them in haste
...

A winter wonderland with snowflakes falling
With Robins and with Turtle doves a-calling
With drummer boys and carol singers too
I guess this is what Christmas means to you
...

There is Russia-Mother and Father-God.
You were born by them, in a cradle.
Your departure is denial of His Love,
Of His Love and His bed in Heaven.
...

Un clochard marchait d'un pas lourd sur le chemin-
L'apres-midi etait chaud et humide-
Et bientot il lui arriva de rencontrer
Un pasteur qui allait dans un buggy.
...

Seema Sultana
Poem by Chan Mongol
August 16 of 2022
...

When the shooting starts
It won't matter who is shooting
Or why
What will matter is that you run or hide, or shoot back
...

We cowardly or nonchalantly sit in front our TV
Watching for years: the killings of babies
The odious humiliation of humanity
The bloody murders of pregnant ladies
...

A seed slept soundly, in arcane bliss
As the sun's warm light crept in
On the bland mud bed, drenched by a droplet
And lo, new life was made to begin
...

No darkness can be deep
As on the roads, the alleys where children play
The gutters by the side,
Dust settled on them and the stench curbed
...

Seema Sultana
Poem by Chan Mongol
August 16 of 2022
...

We live in difficult times
Covid-19 disease has brought us misery
Death of loved ones is our daily breaking news
We are forced to bury them in haste
...

Elderly self-isolated at home during lock-downs
No family, friends to visit and comfort them,
Grandchildren to kiss and hug, loneliness oppressive.
Coronavirus world-wide, murderous epidemic
...

BE A GOOD NEIGHBOUR, BE A GOOD SAMARITAN
Jerusalem to Jericho,
a road, too treacherous to go.
...

(Elderly in lock-down,2020)


No family or friends to visit
...

(On the occasion of Christina Martin's Successful Completion of 10 years in Tamil Nadu Government's teaching job)

O, Thou, my Lord, How these years passed, I know not,
But all with Thy Merciful Providence unto me,
...