Light And Darkness- Haiku Poem by Mamta Agarwal

Light And Darkness- Haiku

Rating: 5.0


Festival of lights;
Child sells crackers to adults,
No sparkle in eyes…

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Joseph Poewhit 06 October 2009

That really paints some picture

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Rakesh Bedi 07 October 2009

a beautiful projection of down-trodden, poverty stricken children, mamta...... it reminded me of my poem...silence of death....belonging to same genre...(time permitting, go through it, plz...) . But, i failed in projecting so much in a three liner...my compliments....

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premji premji 08 October 2009

from innocence to cruel reality........

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Naseer Ahmed Nasir 08 October 2009

Mamta, you have painted two pictures on the one canvas of this paradoxical haiku. One side shows, festival of lights and the other side, darkness of poverty in the eyes of innocent children hawking crackers. This confrontation of colors has created a poetic moot ness of this sadly beautiful haiku. Regards Naseer

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Deepti Agarwal 09 October 2009

How Paradoxical.. a Sad tale behind all the sparkling lights.. child labour with hunger n pain in their eyes... Beautiful enlighting point here... this should be read by every citizen to see actually what is Light n what is dark..

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Rani Turton 20 October 2009

And that is what is so sad...

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Ranjit Ravindran 19 October 2009

Hmmm...am a mute spectator.

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bye bye... bye bye 19 October 2009

This is... oh, I just want to cry! Keep on writing like this, Mamta, keep on telling us what you actually see. Even if some people prefer to act like there were blind. Tragical and extremely efficient writing! I know you write marvellous poems on 'nice' subjects, too. That´s what poets are for... always trying to tell what they experience... no matter what ...

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C. P. Sharma 19 October 2009

'No sparkle in eyes.' tells a lot about child labourers. CP

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 18 October 2009

leave alone selling..down south these crackers are made mostly by young girls...may be today we have a rule..i insist on the birth cert to see if they are more than 18 when i appoint some one in the factory..abroad it seems worse..my little daughter studying in UK is waiting to turn 14 to take up a part time job..the extra money to spend...in india it is not that...and the safety standards and treatment is definitely better there

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