SQUARE MEAL
Cloud gathering at
the western horizon,
Parched land
entangles hope caution,
This year's rainfall
is sufficient to cultivate,
Farmers look at sky
dream motivate, (1)
Their slim figure
turban dirty cloth,
Thatched house, no
property worth,
The penchant to pass
a day in fieldwork,
A farmer's life
bullocks cart remarks, (2)
Rain has come plowing
began to think,
A billion wait for a
square meal link,
A country with
millions of hungry homeless,
No future,
illiterate, sick life, depressed, (3)
Thousands of children
quit school,
Poverty forced
parents, sad, painful,
Children working as
laborers in reality,
Saves square meal
feed incredibility, (4)
No more hunger,
poverty, prosperous,
Green Revolution
aftermath onerous,
Miraculous
transformation harvest,
Square meal, free
rations to the poorest, (5)
Population of
America, free ration,
Distribute food to
uplift the nation,
Nascent progress
prosperity allure,
Reminiscence of past
famines horror, (6)
Forget about a square
meal, a grain,
Famine and droughts
erased pain,
A million lives were
lost, villages were wiped out,
The country often
remembers less doubt, (7)
Look at neighborhoods, the world
suffers,
A square meal
daydream encounters,
stays famine draught
deforestation,
A grain life asks
square meal mourn, (viii)
The aspect of food
sufficiently diminishes,
Future of the world,
nature to vanish,
Humans today ponder
on the table,
Dining table a square
means unable, (9)
New suggestion for
millet vegetate,
Conserve water a must
propagate,
Generation should
think children,
The world belongs to
them, bolden, (10)
Let there be
granaries of golden crops,
A square meal to
hungry man hop,
Possession of
happiness is not gold,
O human seeks a
square meal bold. (11)
Pen: Bijayananda Mishra
Title of Poem: Square
Meal
Themes: Essential to
human life
Written: 18th May
2024, Cuttack
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