In A Flash Poem by Valsa George
In A Flash
As the TV screen comes alive
With news of carnage and bloodshed
Gory tales of rape and molestation
Of manhandling and suicide
By those, once thought to be idols
Politicians’ pandemonium in the parliament
Their nasty tirade and mudslinging
Delirious masses swarming around
Heroes of innumerable political factions
People of muscle and money power
Crushing the poor marginalized,
And many similar scenes of sickening magnitude,
My hands grope for the ‘remote’.
The channels swing past in lightning speed
From frenzied gyrations of lovers of celluloid
To serials lengthening into infinity
Of love betrayed, tears shed
Bonds snapped, hearts shattered
Until at last it finally settles
On the wonders of the Animal Planet
Where the beasts roam free and fearless
Where there is no greed to hoard
Where no one wears a mask
And everything ruled by nothing more than
A survival instinct!
hehehe...fact Mam........none of the channels are worth watching today especially NEWS channels that only displays such fearful news.......Animal Planet & Discovery are worth watching......though at my place only CARTOON NETWORK rules the day and remote lies only with my kids: -) so I enjoy watching that channel too, though nowadays such channels are also not designed for child minds and are much ahead of our times! ! !
I am humoured by your comment, Kavya! I can imagine how your kids have become the custodians of the 'remote' and how they are glued to the Cartoon Network!
My favourite programs are about animals and nature too Valsa. A welcome respite from all the turmoil in the world. I adore all animals, but especially birds. Love your poem, which I am sure most will agree with.
Your poem gives something to ponder over. Why are our lives led by modern gadgets that includes internet/LED & LCDs TVs/ I-pods/I-phones. We have become slaves of our own making. Our thinking gets limited to discussions around the fares churned out by such mediums. There is no time to be independent. No time to have a look at a book and read it leisurely or pen down your thoughts on a paper with that blue-black pen. May be, as you rightly said, everyone wants to survive and survival instinct also changes according to the times. Great poem indeed.
Yes, man is still an animal, Law of Survival of the Fittest is still enforced, Might is still right. A great thoughtful poem...........10
Medias offering best of services in giving such news in time. But unfortunately news items of carnage, aggressive tendencies in humans, and violation of rights on women such news items are really disturbing the human mind and making fear syndrome even though the news are real. The world is full of mysteries sometimes feel. Here the poet beautifully states the things in its clarity and this is wonderfully socially relevant poem and I liked much.
Great Poem! A nice view of a simpler life but I wonder if it is really so? I saw an amazingly sad clip of an elephant family trying to first save a baby elephant that died by drowning or maybe natural causes. the mother's grief was palpable. How hard she tried to help her baby, to see some hope of life in it. Lingering for days I seem to recall near the body of her calf, but unable to do anything. I am convinced other animals have masks too, are capable of duplicity, that their lives are more than just a survival instinct. That there is indeed greed, fear, hoarding, and in fact all human foibles in the animal kingdom, I am convinced. We are just culturally insensitive so to speak.
Excellent. Extremely relevant and contemporaneous. 'Where no one wears a mask .................. A survival instinct' Thought provoking. Thanks for sharing.
One of my favorites too, along with discovery channel and National geographic channel although I hardly get time to watch Television. Shaziaji's explanation is best :) 10/10
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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, , , , what a wonderful ending to this poem, , , so are the animals, , , , they have a heart as clear as water