The hand and its ilk in years have done little,
Slogans, postures, and little more than words,
For dark deeds, pot besides blaming poor kettle,
We voters grin and bear— cattle in herds! '
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Part - 2 note. As per Poet's note... with hind sight, lotus won without delivering much. But still, proving better than others, it won the second round as well. Beautiful sonnet. Thanks for sharing.
part - 1 Different political parties have different symbols like lotus, hand, brooms etc. They make propaganda in favor of them in many ways to win the election.You have so nicely and cutely delineated these two sonnets in the name of " The Murky Pond Of Politics- I and " The Murky Pond Of Politics- Ii " It is nice to have the juxtaposition of poet's
Great satire on Indian politics, yes, what you said is 100% correct, the pond is still murky and will remain unless all the citizen joins their hand together to cleanup get rid of all the dirt spreading those unwanted / not required stuffs in the minds and souls of innocents. Wonderful poem 10++++++++
Great satire on Indian politics, yes what u said is 100% correct, the pond is still murky and will remain unless all the citizen joins their hand together to cleanup get rid of all the dirt spreading
Another wonderful and insightful poem on the murky pond of politics. I concur with the wonderful comments of Poet Nehal. Brilliantly penned.
Thank you again Rose Marie, but it is the same poem split in two parts