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No Love for Mother Earth Weeping for Development

Mother Earth 
weeps
taxied by
man’s ruthless
intervention
making it
a graveyard
of corporate
inorganic
dumps
with the
secret connivance
of greedy hands
gnawing
groping
for interests
selfish...

how do we
strike a balance
between
growth and
sustenance…

the soil weeps,
our riverbeds weep...

the broken up
hills, blurred,
where the
Quarry exists

amidst
blasts
and breakups...

nature
struggles
suffocates
to death...

our paddy
fields
loaded
with buildings
with interests
mercenary...
industrial units
shopping
complex...

how we get
reports
of rare types
of cancers
canker like
destroyingeven the budding
innocents...

polluted air,
water
foodstuff, even
babies in
womb affected...

On another
side
wars,
wanton
killings...

when will
we learn
the basic ethics
of cohabitation,
“to live
and let live.”

Picture design by Anumita Roy

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Dr. Molly Joseph
Dr. Molly Joseph is a professor, poet from Kerala, who writes travelogues, short stories and story books for children. She has published 14 books,12 books of poems, a novel and a story book for Children. Her poetry with its unique style, has been characterised as "Ribbon Poetry." She has won several accolades which include India Women Achiever’s Award 2020.Her latest book, Water Sings over the Stones, won the best Poetry Book of the Year Award from ALS. She believes in the power of the word.

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