An Orphaned Boy By The Road-Side Poem by indira babbellapati

An Orphaned Boy By The Road-Side

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i looked to my right
i looked to my left
i even tried looking behind...

what's it to look forward
when all directions
appear hazy...?

i sit outside your
corrugated iron bars
with an empty bottle and
heaps of debris in front

a broken toy i found somewhere
spilled colors in my small hand

can anyone tell me
where i belong to?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Saadat Tahir 12 May 2012

OH indira ji...beautiful at once you conjured up the site of the pathetic little boy sitting with a crushed old paper can on top of a Rio shanty…(the cartoon movie RIO) ….CGI sheet and empty soda packs all…. you’ve painted the whole scene in 32k ….. vivid and painful, just the parakeets are missing…. Although a common sight in our impoverished home waters, still hurts and you have done it very well indeed cheers

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Aman Sa 13 May 2012

there is much to explore but in this world itself orphaned, these explorations may turn into endless echoes....and in the same song every body starts differentiating A child of the road I am also of the same God.

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Anita Sehgal 26 May 2012

tugs at your heartstrings!

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Heather Wilson 13 May 2012

A broken toy I found somewhere, sad so sad for any child,

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Shahzia Batool 13 May 2012

(The night was dark, no father was there; /the child was wet with dew; /The mire was deep, n the child did weep, /and away the vapour flew./) a sad commentary on the plight of orphans...in a stratified society, where wealth rules, n theunprotected is bound to go to the wall....

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Indira Babbellapati 13 May 2012

we all r of him, by him, for him!

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Indira Babbellapati 13 May 2012

yes, aman...we r all of the same god...disparity is god's way!

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indira babbellapati

indira babbellapati

visakhapatnam, india
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