21 Century Popular Philosophy: Part-1: Hip, Hip, Hurray! Rat-Race In Surrey! Poem by Harindhar Reddy

21 Century Popular Philosophy: Part-1: Hip, Hip, Hurray! Rat-Race In Surrey!

Rating: 4.8


Tip-top! A tiger growled in the known university with name hero
Yet in unknown Wessex, a cat became rat as our hero became zero;
Thou won the titles - loser and alien; living in the acid rain;
Tippytoe! Dreamt of climbing to heaven, He fells with loud yells!
Yakety-yak! He went to hell in a hand basket: hell's bells!
Rickety-rock! Come rain or shine! Our teacher is in pain!
Clickety-clack, His life became dark, Hark! Hark! .....
Larry, Harry, Tom and Jerry read the UNIVERSAL sad story!

From super Titan to cipher Saturn; a journey- wayward
From the winning horse to underdog, News update...
From behemoth-warrior to dark horse up to the fate;
Soon, I downed the ladder like a buffoon with broom!
My hopes are dashed as I'm white washed in graveyard;
Ten! Ten! Ten! I am beaten brow...
I ate crow oh! My bro! To and fro!
Larry, Harry, Tom and Jerry read the UNIVERSAL sad story!

Rats belled a fat cat in the story famed,
Jumping Judas! Fat cats belled my neck in a glory blamed;
They canned me without cane but I don't know why!
They blamed without shame yet I can't ask why?
My wings are tripped yet I'm asked to fly high...
Splash! Splash! Squish! Squash! A white wash...
Down, down, my pulse rate is down and I frown!
Larry, Harry, Tom and Jerry read the UNIVERSAL sad story!

Here many pupils come to play and took the Mickey,
School - a play ground with teacher as an object of ruth...
One always flirts with the girls; he, a harum-scarum youth'
Others go ape as if injected in a pump-up party gimmicky!
Joshing me like a bull in a China shop; the atmosphere is woolly,
Made the scholar a Doubting Thomas and Nervous Nelly!
I write verse in universe tut! Do you know my life is a curse?
Larry, Harry, Tom and Jerry read the UNIVERSAL sad story!

Here I saw wolves in sheep's clothing in pupils' house;
Teacher, a Mickey Mouse so they played cat and mouse...
Made me a fraidy cat, with in two shakes of lamb's tail;
Teachers in big hierarchy can't punish; even school can't nail
With fear, they pass the buck to others in a blame-game
Who pulls the iron curtain is thousand pound gorilla in the room?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, I am scary!
Larry, Harry, Tom and Jerry read the UNIVERSAL sad story!

'I Walk and talk; I teach and preach Words and famed manners',
'Grunt and grumble; dribble and rumble' says blamed banners;
Once Mrs. Y made me Mulkraj Anand's Untouchable - Baka!
Once Mr. X. passed jeering remarks when I took tea in the atoll...
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*A big NOTICE BOARD: Oops! Sorry the poem is NOT completed. This is just break time! Now read to make your reading wholesome read PART - 2

21 Century Popular Philosophy: Part-2: HUMAN RAT trapped in a Sick Race

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Crimson Love 26 November 2011

There are to many lines in this poem that I loved. Phenomenal poem. :)

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

Thank you for a nice comment on the poem πŸ™πŸ™πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

Thank you for your amazing review on the poem πŸ™πŸ™πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Solomon Szpilmann 26 September 2011

well written and well articulated..

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

Thank you for a nice comment on the poem πŸ™πŸ™πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

Thank you for your amazing review on the poem πŸ™πŸ™πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Allemagne Roßmann 11 September 2011

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, I am scary! superb simply i must say philosophy mish-mashed with realism and felt the reader a movie pro.Similes and paraphrases are like monologues and dialogues.Great cinematographic version of poetry here.Well synthesized.

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Harindhar Reddy 21 May 2020

I am delighted by your beautiful comment on the poem πŸ™πŸ™πŸ‘πŸ‘

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