Do you want to purchase goats for this Dashain?
Thousands of hunters and fellow goats
I fed them for three years
What size do you need?
Expensive or cheaper?
Local or imported?
Don’t worry
A perfect goat shop has been opened
At the heart of the city
Buy two and get one free
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(Photo: The Telegraph) |
Thousands of hunters and fellow goats
Brilliant juvenile
Enduring aged
Sacrificed to assemble six hundred one
Caste, ethnicity, gender, age and ecology represented
Quality guaranteed Height, weight and color mixed
Some bleat
Others sleep
Very few frail
My goats are on sale
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| (Photo: Photobucket) |
I fed them for three years
Unruly and petulant always
Now I’m too tired to bear
I’ve no optimism and endurance
My goats and myself are on sale, hence
Wow! So, sarcastic to we all who have been killing animals in the name of celebration and romance. This poem again drags me not to murder animals. This poem is a sharp weapon against our brutality.
ReplyDeleteShyam Pandey
Thank you Shyam-ji. This is one interpretation.
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Prem
this sale is in the name of religion,
ReplyDeletedifferent and religious.The seller is being religious with choices,no compulsions!
Men buy one to get one free,
a style of/for
buyers and sellers!
Dear Tapsi Madam
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. This is another interpretation, I like it. Of course buying and selling has some religious connotation. I do not know whether or not I am able to feed these 601 goats.. I hope it makes sense..
Regards
Prem
Really your 'I' meaning 'we'are fade up with all 601 goats of ours. so plese promote,adevertise and sell under one buy one free scheme soon as there is no fodder left for them.Fast...Fast....very Fast otherwise, they will start eating us.
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Rajbiraj
Why to be so much pessimist? Sir, your poem reflects the ideas of what we find in the drama," Waiting for Godot.." BUT there is always silver line in the black cloud, too. Negative connotation leads us to the destruction. Lets feed 601 goats 3 months more.
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Gaushala, Ktm
I like it, I am against inhuman act of killing animals. Very soon you may find me a vegi.:)
ReplyDeleteHello Prem Sir, you reminded me the essay "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
ReplyDeletesir, i found the sweetest irony in your poem. in my opinion ,we all r really fade up from our heros uffffh......ÝES. now they are really......
ReplyDeleteGreat, sir. The poet in you seems to have found expression.
ReplyDeleteIt is ironical. i understand the three year span as the span given for CA and we are tired of the time frame so since we don't have any hope in timely promulgation of constitution it is for sale. And what abut us then , the goat keepers? we are alike. Perhaps we wrongly selected the goats which cud not reimburse our expectiation(live up) so the keepers themselves are sale. I inferred the meaning next way round.
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Sagun-ji great comment and interpretation. Thank you
ReplyDeleteYes!I think it is a sarcastic satire on the political follies.But I am doubtful whether any customer will come for the purchase.I am afraid if the goat disguises itself into TIGER by time I reach home!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ramesh-ji for comment. Yes there is chance of that as well
ReplyDeleteI wonder!to read such a nice poem of you sir!!which seems like a great satire to the political leaders of nepal.Ofcourse you have hit inside its bone ..watta great Irony! and hahaha also it's funny enough. i couldn't stop laughing when i read it.hatts off.
ReplyDeleteThank you Balu-ji for reading the poem.Good to know that you enjoy it
ReplyDeleteWhen i go through the poem i thought of the people who are selling their soul just 4 money..,4 those ppl evthng is money. but its not good. Sir, thanx 4 ur nice poetry...
ReplyDeleteI wanna compare this poem with the Lisha by Vinchi.Bcoz this poem also suits any situations like if u think of politics it seems that this is political sattire,if u think of sth else it becomes the same...anyway thank u so much 4 the poetry ..i like it..
Thank you Puskar...
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