Thursday, June 11, 2009

Modern Folly Comments

Rating: ★5.0

Guests gather around the water hole. Intoxicating
drinks, elevate grandiose aspirations. Band-aids
sound a melodious song upon the right hands.
Idols, on the magic eye, spouts images of
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Prince Obed de la Cruz 03 August 2010

i will rate this one 10

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Nivedita Bagchi SPC UK 21 December 2009

Crux / curse of modernity? Mahatma Ghandhi-ji said, ‘Go back to bullock cart age’… Was he well ahead of his time…? Ten Ms. Nivedita UK

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Bhaswat Chakraborty 18 June 2009

Thanks for reminding that everything ancient is not devoid of intelligence. Further, this poem hits like a javelin.

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Kesav Easwaran 15 June 2009

Beautiful anticlimax you present to the 'grandiose aspirations' in your last line Joe...nice poem with wit and wisdom pumped in...10

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Sandra Martyres 11 June 2009

Nice write on the folly of modern day life.....10+

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 11 June 2009

reflection of what is today

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Carol Gall 11 June 2009

truly a folly well written

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Priyanka Bhowmick 11 June 2009

a lovely piece.. well penned..

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