Olympic Games Started With A Bang! Poem by nimal dunuhinga

Olympic Games Started With A Bang!



I too watched the grand spectacle
in my old T.V.,
Really it's beautiful
and a superb pageant!
But I have a regret
and a sad poem gathers in my heart of the colonial
poor friends who left behind?
They could run faster than Jaguar when in hunger
But unfortunately their loose-leaf passports were not endorsed
for flying overseas because they're still rural village birds
bare-footed?

[It's good to have an end to journey towards;
but it's the journey that matters, in the end.]-Le Guin


nimal dunuhinga

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Elsa Bennett 29 July 2012

I love this poem, think the phrases 'loose-leaf passports' and 'rural village birds' are lovely. Definitely topical and nice to see thoughts on the wider impacts and exclusion of the olympics. Thankyou for sharing :)

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kalubovila East, Sri Lanka
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