Saturday, July 31, 2021

Leaflets From My Life - 26th July 2005 Mumbai Floods 3 Comments

Rating: 5.0

The next day, almost mid-day,
My husband and I, slowly ventured downstairs.
The water that had risen high, up to nine feet height
Inside the house, during the high tide period at night,
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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon
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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

5 Stars Fullest on Top for this heaviest waterdisaster in Mumbai 2005. So marvelously worded. I appreciate highest this sequel 3 of the Autobiographical Poem

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

I can see it all happening before me, I have become completely silent, such a most violent event.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

I can totally envision this poem about those Mumbai floods July 2005. What a great water disaster! dr. Geeta, you have articulated these fierce and anxious moments so eloquently,

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

A heaviest waterdisaster in Mumbai, the floods in 2005 on the 6th of July, your words in this poem are so punctually chosen, that we as the readers can still imagine all these as it were still happening!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

We felt crippled, disabled and helpless! It had taken so many years for us to make a home From a house of just walls, windows and doors! All gone in a flash with this unpredictable, nasty floods! Cited from your last stanza

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

Your poem gives the reader the greatest waterdisaster Mumbai ever had, and the ravage biggest, heaviest and no end to see during those Mumbai Floods when the monsoon rains never seemed to stop.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

Whatever be, nonstop floods are very very disastrous when this concerns own home, the ravage is greatest, all the stinking dirt of the water flowing inside the house

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

In 2005, such heaviest happenings are never wiped out of our memory, in this case it is our own home, reminding me of the recent floods in Germany and South Limburg and East Belgium

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2021

It had taken so many years for us to make a home From a house of just walls, windows and doors! All gone in a flash with this unpredictable, nasty floods! So very very imaginable these Mumbai Floods, those were haunting nights and days.

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Indulekha A menon 01 August 2021

Very sD.After years if toiling to make a home, sudfenly ine fine dsy when the devastating floods wash out sll the hard-earned materials of our dream home it us very unbearable.I too came across the dame experience in 2018 Kerala gloods.So can understand the pain of the losses underwent.

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