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pallavihuilgol · 7 years

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The planet is our home ,paint it green

A poem to show how Mangroves protect our coastline from flurries and floods and tsunamis.

Mushy Mangroves of Mahim

On the muddy shores of Mithi and rusty creeks of Mahim

I once flourished creepy and plucking on the petals of panache

Waiting eagerly for the monsoon moon to smile

On the tides and shores of …amchi Mumbai

Year after year and mile after mile.

Alongside was the limit less July sky

Who witnessed one happy face

That blush of shy

I am the mushy mangrove of the facile waters

Along the cluttered coasts of Mumbai

Those were the days of good and old

In the city of shine and shimmer

Not many people on the city roads

Not much water to fail the harbor

Regular spills of rain on the rails

Fishermen of koli tribe worshipped the waters

of mithi

as they happily set their sails

Once again monsoon moon smiled

As I kept flourishing in those muddy facile waters

Now the bygone era smiles at me

Only in the memories of sunset at sea shores

Only in the silver stud photos that walk you

Through the mossy mushy memory lane

Silently Crawls The mangrove of Mahim

Alas Alas Alas ‼!

Where are the green city parks of Amchi Mumbai now

Old highways have it to new sky scraping highways

And people who dwell in a satirical street

A street that is made of buildings and concrete

A street made of overtarred roads with more potholes

A street full of people busting in chaos camouflaging

To the beats of a honking sounds and hues of the traffic light

A street full of children who dwell in the nearby garbage dump

With less place to sleep ,read , play or jump

For the city is more of trash and less of tan and twigs

And there is less water in the storage hand pump,

A street where the old , the young

have less of Fresh air to breathe and follow

For there is more chemical baggage around

To smell ,eat and drink

And the children born or yet to be,

Have to push and pump and swallow.

And every monsoon moon year after year

Is losing its shimmer and is getting dimmer

As the high tides in the rain get more awry

Amchi Mumbai faces flood flurry

Traffic jams on roads and rails get bigger and bigger,

People stuck for days and nights in the downpour

Seems like there is no happy hour

Blaming them for sewage system and power blackouts

Putting tags and hashtags to the government systems

On twitter and instagram handles

City somehow limpingly boots up ,from the dialema of the downpour

And the flurry smiling and teasing,slowly dwindles

As if nature’s flurry confronts us and asks us

All that has been , has been and enough

For how long are we all going to allow

I am Mother Nature please listen

Don't delete and deplete my trees and forests

In the name of high-tech upgrades and automation

Don't erase the necklace of mushy mangrove

Alongside my once green sea shores

It is my amulet against disgrace and calamity

Please go green and plant trees

For children to play, let there be bees

Listen to the chirruping of birds

And to humming of bees

Listen to the panther spotted in city schools

And to the hissing of snake around your backyard

That they are not a specimen in the zoo to be

That this is our home and yours and theirs

So open your eyes and hearts and doors in green

To a new world for children and old

To a new world for people with paws and claws

For the planet earth belongs to all of us

By Pallavi

#mangrove #mahim #versova #mumbaifloods #deforestation #plantation #paintgreen

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