Dr. Alka Singh

Earth’s Songs

Alka Singh

1

What Peeji pigeon thought !

Peeji pigeon looks so  sad,

he came on the  terrace so  late .

Friends were waiting for quite long,

Goba , Popa , Kate , Debi and Mong.

Goba and Popa angrily asked ,

Why are you , Peeji , so late ?

And wondered so , Mong and Kate ;

Dear Peeji, you are so late !

“Dear friends, let  me tell;

Don’t you feel suffocating smog ?

I was flying over the mall

last evening ,

it was a trip small.

I inhaled the  toxic smog ,

got down, and then swooned …

Hey buddies , could not sense,

 then , what happened !

Then one child brought me home,

and then, late , I came to sense .

So  toxic getting our air,

People poisoning our life, our air .”

All listened to Peeji so ,

and thanked  Almighty God.

They thanked the nature’s bliss .

and thought of  Nature!

 That gives us  water , air, shelter

 and many such  blessings so .

What to do as next plan ?

“What to do to  save our Earth?”

The children asked !

“No way, but to sensitize our friends ,

Let’s  work  for  our environment.”

We will all have a green pledge ,

We will save our planet Earth .

2

Zoomi frog was so disturbed

Zoomi frog was so disturbed…

Yesterday, when he jumped ahead

found him stuck in   a plastic bag .

He was angry;

he was sad,

struggled a lot

to come out of the  bag .

“People made this dumping pond…

forgetting , once it was

such   a beautiful pond!

So many kids and so many birds ,

in past , all visited  the pond.”

Zoomi muttered with anger ,so;

here,  life is scary , I will go .

Birds have gone, and fishes[1] so plan,

so dangerous now, to live along .

“No dear Zoomi , it is our fault”,

Looking  at Zoomi , said Bedu ,

 a  little boy ,

“It is yours – our lovely pond” .

Don’t go away, my dear friend!

We are sorry, my lovely friend!

We are missing birds  too,

let’s call them from far off ponds.

Kids came there, so many kids ,

they thought, how to save the pond.

They moved their homes with a pledge-

“We will save our friends;

the frogs and birds,

the pond is theirs ,

 we will preserve .”

3

Jirkie  and Chhabba

Jirkie  and Chhabba were rather dull ,

it was evening , weather so harsh .

Their moms away for water’s sake

both were sitting at their huts’ gates.

Parched up leaves of the Bela[2] plant  ,

Twigs were dry and dull the street .

Goats were thirsty , the dogs too,

with dried up muzzle  , they too asleep .

Dry district of a dry state

The earth is burning like  a hot plate !

How to make it green and clean ?

Jirkie  spoke in voice so lean.

We will plant more trees

Chhabba added in thinking spree.


[1]  In common uses Fish is  commonly used plural. Fishes  is  be used as a plural , if there are more than one species.

[2] One very popular fragrant flower  plant . Arabian Jasmine.