(Tripura. India)

poet Palas kumar Ray
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Poverty-I

Lot of hunger and having no food is poverty,

Not having spare cloth to take bath is poverty,

Needing a shelter but not having one is poverty,

Child's sick but can not buy treatment, is poverty,

Fainting child dreaming a mouthful of rice is poverty

Searching warmth in cold flesh in winter nights, is poverty,

Sitting with umbrella on wetting bed in showering night, is poverty,

Thoughtful mother, two mouthful of rice and three children, is poverty,

An ill, deserted mother selling her child wishing it will survive, is poverty.

A defeated and desponded mother poisoning and killing her child is poverty,

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posted on 31-07-2008
Copyright ©®2008, Palas Kumar Ray. All rights reserved.

Submitted: Thursday, July 31, 2008
Edited: Saturday, March 27, 2010

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  • Franklin Spetuxolo Lateta (5/9/2009 5:20:00 AM)

    The content of your poem is exciting and a lot of people need to understand the strategies of improving poverty. I'M HAPPY to see that even the poets are dedicated to help the world about expresing their feelings. Well done and keep on working very hard for this poor world.

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  • Brian Wright (11/24/2008 10:35:00 AM)

    Boooooooooo! -10. That was awful and boring to read.

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  • Sarwar Chowdhury (10/3/2008 12:53:00 PM)

    well thought out indeed..................10+

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  • Reetesh Sabr (9/29/2008 9:46:00 AM)

    superb and worthy to be to put to act...

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  • Mamta Agarwal (8/28/2008 9:32:00 PM)

    very powerful- obsevations of a compassionate soul. deeply felt and poignantly expressed.

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  • Vidyadhar-2 ..... (8/20/2008 12:22:00 PM)

    A person bereaved of knowledge is poverty

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  • Kesav Easwaran (8/8/2008 12:20:00 PM)

    line # 8 is a 'povertic' nay poetric beauty...poverty is in progression with poetry from line # 1 to line # 10...good poe'trick'...palas!

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  • Ted Sheridan (8/7/2008 4:17:00 AM)

    And certainly a tragedy in a world so full of riches.

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  • Sandra Fowler (8/6/2008 1:40:00 PM)

    Very touching. This is a poem that needed to be written.

    Warm regards,

    Sandra

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  • Rema Prasanna (8/2/2008 12:13:00 PM)

    you turned realistic.. and expressed two shades of poverty.. excellent.10 from me

    Rema

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