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AtreyaSarma Uppaluri - Eco Echo

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You pluck us off our green homes <br />And arrest us in your dark tresses - <br />To enhance your beauty and fragrance. <br />Won’t you redress please our little grievance? <br />Water our abodes just twice a week at least <br />After you have thrice a day your own feast. <br /> <br />You grow us vast for our blossoms and blooms <br />Roots and fruits, cork and bark, latices and plumes. <br />You squeeze us, you scorch us; you grind us, you grate us <br />You mince us, you mash us; you burn us, you boil us - <br />For your recipes and perfumes herbal. <br />Don’t we live and die for you without a grumble? <br />Won’t you then grant a request so humble? <br />Don’t cripple us with chemicals and pesticides <br />Lest our health be endangered, yours besides. <br /> <br />They pull us out and offer at your divine feet - <br />Devotees’ tenderness hasn’t yet turned effete. <br />Won’t you with a benign boon bless us the petite? <br />That our tribe cum fauna is not hewn down by gangs <br />Just for the greed of the human asphalt fangs. <br /> <br />[Apr 08,2009: : Hyderabad - 500 056]<br /><br />AtreyaSarma Uppaluri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eco-echo/

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