Your ‘sigh-tempests’ and ‘tear-floods’
Are precious treasures in this desert,
Where dinosaurs in human forms
Devour trees, the earth’s treasures.
They badly bleed but men don’t see,
Or how down their tears slowly flow;
They only see the coaxing dollar-bills,
The falling, floating, handsome bills.
Cry, my son, shed more ‘tear-floods’;
Sigh, so high and blow ‘sigh-tempests’
Till wild they grow and spread wide,
And melt the monsters’ cold hearts.
Copyright © Dec. 27, 2018, Newton Ranaweera
Image source: Pixabay
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Thank you so much, Anna, for this complement!! 🙂
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This is poignant
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Thank you so much for your read and the comment!! 🙂
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Wow. Very beautifully written
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Thank you for having such a beautiful, romantic heart!! 🙂
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Oh you are sweet. Thank you Newton
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My pleasure, Sona!! 🙂
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Lovely heart ❤️
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Thank you, Helene; thank you so much!! 🙂
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Oh the greed we have!
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Sure, and thank you for your read and kind affirmation!! 🙂
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Sad and beautifully written
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Thank you, Andrew; thank you so much!! 🙂
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So touching. ‘Cry, my son, shed more ‘tear-floods’; Sigh, so high and blow ‘sigh-tempests’ When will we realize this.
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Thank you so much for your read and the comment, Muntazir!! We may understand this too late.
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I agree.
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Thank you for visiting and like me 🙂
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Hi. I had nominated you for the mystery blogger award. Enjoy answering my questions nominee
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Thank you so much, Yaasota, for this nomination. It’s a great honour!! 🙂 🙂
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😇 Hi. send me a link after answering all of my questions. Enjoy the questions ☺
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With my best wishes…
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Thank you so much for sharing this superb creation and wishing goodwill for the year 2019. I wish you a Very Happy New Year, in return!! 🙂
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Beautifully crafted with deeply poignant words to remind us of humanity’s evil-doings with nature. Your imagery is very powerful; for instance, the metaphor of human beings using machines and technology with destructive aims: “dinosaurs in human forms”. Words like “bleed” and “tears” help increase the emotional intensity.
The last line of the first stanza provides a beautiful alliteration (“falling, floating, handsome bills”), also with the repetoition of the l letter. It gives an air of deceiving softness, just exactly what the ambition for money does to people.
The triple rhyme of the last stanza has great strength: “Sigh so high and blow “sigh tempests” “. Brilliant poem, Newton!
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That’s an amazing critique, Marta!! Thank you so much for sacrificing your precious time to write such an elaborative critique. I feel I have been humbled by your thoughts and the sense of good will 🙂 🙂
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I am glad you like my critique. This is no sacrifice, it is one of my passions in my free time. Besides I am very fond of your poems, Newton.
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Poignant yet powerful read!
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Very touching and true, I specially love the imagery of ”dinosaurs in human forms.”
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Thank you so much, Lucia, for this great comment!!! 🙂
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