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.